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Distractions And Lost It
~WILLIAM~
“C’mon!Let me see the satanic mark of love!”
“Fuck you,” I cursed and used my left foot to push Saint back to his seat which may have been too hard because the playboy fell onto the sleek carpet floor of the small limo.
“Ah!” Saint dramatically declared while lying on the floor. “I’ve been injured by my own Beta! Alpha! What kind of abuse is this?”
“Fuck off,” Dimitris huffed and didn’t bother looking away from his phone as he typed away whatever essay of a response he was giving to our competition on an unexpected deal that we really needed to secure.
"I can see why Onyx would rather travel on foot than deal with this car bullshit,” Loki muttered, looking utterly miserable on his side of the limo. “Another form of captivity.”
“The traffic isn’t normally this bad,” I tried to reason, but who the fuck was I kidding? This traffic was utterly stupid. We might as well call a fucking helicopter to come to take us to our destinations because we clearly were all going to be late for what we had planned today.
Christmas Eve was in two days and our schedules were packed to the point that we had no choice but to split everything up for the sake of our pack’s sanity.
Our weekend break surely was a blessing in disguise because this disgusting Monday was already starting off horribly with this bumper-to-bumper traffic. It was so bad, I was thinking of what kind of deal I could make with the bloody government to take some initiative to lower the traffic in the city.
It really didn’t make sense that so many people were going down to the financial district like we’d become Wall St and only dealt with stocks that changed every damn second. Due to the recent spike in criminal activity and the very recent magic grid issue, smaller businesses were advised to work from home for the holidays.
If at least half of those businesses weren’t commuting anymore, why did it feel like traffic had doubled?
I was glad Neo, Viktor, Jayce, Onyx, and Milo hadn’t come along because it would have been more frustrating to be cramped in this limo for an hour and a half.
“Ya. Even with Christmas two days away, traffic has never been as crazy as it has been this time around. Let me let the photographer know we’re going to be a tad late.”
Right. Saint has a photoshoot today.
I was apparently coming along because Forbidden Enterprise was going through their inspections today and there would be very little point for me to be present unless I was giving orders. Jayce, Neo, and Viktor were already on-site and handling those things, so it seemed unnecessary for me to join in.
Dimitris tagged along because he had to go to the bank to get a draft written up for Jayce’s car show that was happening tomorrow. I think he’d wanted it postponed, but because so many charities had contributed to the event, he didn’t want to cancel it because he knew that those organizations -which were mostly orphanages and women centers -would rely on the money for Christmas celebrations and to enter the new year on a better foot than the last.
One of the charity organizations had backed out -aka the Vatican -and apparently, the money they were going to contribute was 60% worth of the donations, so what better way to save Christmas than by replacing them and being very “public” about his contribution and how it was approved by Forbidden Enterprise as the Vatican had pulled out due to apparent ”hacking” issues.
We knew exactly what they were doing, and frankly, I wasn’t having any of it.
And neither was Saint.
That was why he managed to get everyone together to have a very unexpected photoshoot. And despite my crappy morning mood without my dose of coffee, I appreciated his efforts to get things moving promptly.
Onyx was doing a round of monitoring our potential enemies in the “queue”, which included Aurelia, and Loki would be staying with me since Dimitris had stressed that he could handle himself and didn’t need a bodyguard.
Yet, I do. So dumb.
“Tad late feels like five fucking years,” Loki huffed as he lifted his arms up to rest on the leather cushions while he leaned his head back against the tinted window. “Sweets, did you take your pill this morning?”
I casually looked over to him, noticing the way Dimitris briefly paused in whatever he was typing to side glance at me. I rolled my eyes.
“I took it,” I assured him. “I’ve been consistent.”
“No side effects?” he pondered.
“Nope,” I calmly replied and further relaxed in my seat. “I feel good. Why?”
“Just curious,” Loki muttered as he closed his eyes once more. “At least I know what to say if I see Ruby.”
