XXVI - I'm Yours

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Earl POV


I opened my car's door and stepped out of the engine. I looked around and saw that Kane, Ashley, Heather and Aaron were also getting out. I stretched my arms up and sighed in relief when I stretched my back in sweet relief.

Then I noticed a bunch of men coming already talking to Shelby and came to unload our suitcases. I made my way toward my brother and gave him a hug.

"Thanks for lending your jet," I said with a smile.

"Don't worry. I know how uncomfortable we can be in a commercial airline even in first class," he shuddered making me laugh. "Italy huh?" he asked in contemplation as he played with his phone in his hand.

"Yeah, ever been there?"

"Yeah, but the only thing I remember was about a fucking ugly old man that wanted to trade weapons with us," he groaned before smirking, "Now, that's your job."

"Don't remind me," I grumbled as I saw Ashley making waving signs. "I'll call you soon."

Ashley nodded before answering his ringing phone. I walked toward the plane and walked up the stairs. At the opening of the plane, there was a flight attendant waiting for me. She smiled and wished me a pleasant flight as she showed me the inside of the prestigious interior. I had to admit that Shelby did have a great taste.

I plopped down on the sofa as I leaned my head black enjoying the silence. But it was short lived because two stupid people started to argue about who gets which room. And to add at that, I felt someone sit beside me. A familiar perfume drifted to my nose and I tensed. Hands crawled around my waist and he pulled my body toward him.

"What do you want," I asked tiredly without opening my eyes.

"Nothing," he chuckled, "I just need a lot of attention since you ignored me the whole way here."

"We are not doing anything remotely indecent in this plane if that's what you have in mind,"

I huffed remembering that he left me naked and tied in my own office! I was still mad at him for that. If he ever does that again, I swore to God I will... I will cut his balls off and feed it to him?

"But we can at the hotel?" he asked innocently making me glare at him. Yeah, I will definitely make him eat his own balls.

"We aren't sharing a room," I stated convinced that Heather put me with Aaron.

"Unfortunately for you, it seems like Heather put us in the same room," he grinned like an idiot.

"What about Aaron? He can't be sharing a room with Ashley, right?"

He groaned and he leaned his head on my shoulder, "Why do you have to think of them when I'm talking about us?" he whined.

Us? I raised an eyebrow, "There is no us."

Then he was about to retort but was interrupted by the Captain's speech.

We stayed silent after that. I tried my best to ignore his presence. To get my mind off him, I thought about what we will do when we arrive in Italy. We only stay there for three days, so as soon as we land, we have to go search for the grave. Fortunately for me, Ashley took care of the logistics and restraining the area from the tourists. Apparently, it wasn't easy, but since we had powerful sponsors, the Italian government finally accepted.

Somehow, Kane succeeded to fall asleep. His head was resting on my legs with both his arms around my waist. I looked around and there was no one in sight. So, slowly I pushed my hand through his hair. To my surprise, it was incredibly soft. I continued to play with his hair as I observed his face feature. Without that stupid smile plastered on his face, his sleeping face was so innocent and kind of cute. I chuckled, I never thought Kane could ever be called cute.

I poked at his nose and then his cheek. He swatted my hand away before nuzzling his nose near my crotch making me breathing hitch. Fortunately, he didn't wake up and I sighed in relief. The last thing I wanted was him waking up with my growing hard on his face. Kane will only tease/torture me to no end.

"That's how it is," snorted a voice making me look up. Aaron, of course.

"What about it?" I asked back with a raised eyebrow as my hand continued to stroke the sleeping man's hair.

"I didn't think you'll be foolish enough to fall in love with that monster."

I internally rolled my eyes, "Then you're more than a fool than I am."

"Please enlighten me," he said annoyingly as if I was the most stupid person on earth. I just chuckled at him and took my phone out. I started to check my e-mails when the man sat next to me. "I don't like to wait, tell me," he growled menacingly as he grabbed my arm.

"I think you're forgetting your position. I agreed to let you come, but if you continue to disrespect me like that, I'll send my monster after you," I warned with a glare before pulling his hand off my arm.

"Then you can forget about our deal."

"If you think you're essential to our growth in Europe, you're mistaken," I half bluffed. Having the Anderson's influence will fasten our growing pace in Europe. It was true that losing him will make us lose a lot of money and Shelby will kill me, but what Aaron didn't know was that we already started to expand in Russia through the Nikolaev. He narrowed his eyes at me, surely not believing me. I just needed to push him into a corner. "Fine, the deal is off. You will stay on the plane and you'll be going back to France."

Aaron's eyes widened in surprise before hiding his emotions. "You're serious?"

"Do I look like I am joking?"

He hesitated for a moment before apologizing and going back into his quarters. I leaned my head back kind of exhausted by always confronting that man. Why was it so hard for him to understand that he should only be opening his mouth when I needed him?

"So annoying. If I didn't need him, I would have disposed of him already," I mumbled to myself.

"Do I need to go after him?" Kane said teasingly making me jump in surprise.

"God, you were awake?" I look down and pull my hand away from his hair. Kane nodded making me swallow my saliva. "Since when?"

I hated it when his grin grew into his usual I know it all smile. "I am your monster?" he asked emphasizing the word "your".

"Why do you look so happy?" I carefully asked as I squinted.

"I am yours? So there is a us."

He was still on that? Why couldn't he focus on the more pressing matters we had right now? Like... I don't know... That we were going to land soon and focus on how we should find that remote without damaging the protected site?

I rolled my eyes at him and pushed in on the ground before standing up. I look at him groan and rub the back of his head before stomping away. Serve you right!

Hours later, the plane finally landed on the Italian ground. We got out of the plane and as expected, a car was already waiting for us. Once our luggage were loaded into the car, Kane drove us to our hotel. We checked in and was sad to discover that Kane was indeed right. We were sharing a single room as Ashley and Aaron shared the other. Of course, they didn't take it and started to bicker at every occasion they got. Then we let our luggage into our rooms and headed to the site.

Suddenly, Ashley tackled me. Now that I think about it, where was she during the whole flight? Then I remembered that she had flying sickness, so she ate a sleeping pill before the plane took off.

"Earl, can we go shopping, please? Pretty please, please, please??" she begged with both her hand swinging my arm around like a kid begging for her parents to buy her ice cream.

"Ashley," I scolded, "Where are here for business."

"I know! But you can't come to Italy and go back without buying some brand clothing!" she whined making me roll my eyes.

"If you finish your work properly, I don't care what you do during your free time," I finally conceded.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Soon, we arrived at the restricted area and showed the men our licence and agreement with their government. They checked our IDs before letting us through. Ashley started to ramble about the history of this place. She didn't miss a beat as she explained everything we saw. It was pretty interesting, but I didn't come all the way here for sightseeing. I just wanted to find that famous remote.

"Do you remember this place?" I asked Kane as he finally stopped looking around.

"Yeah, it changed, but I was definitely here before."

I nodded and my attention was back on Ashley when I heard her squeal, "It's here! I can't believe it! I have the grave of Julius Caesar in front of me."

"Is it the good grave?" I asked Kane as he approached it before squatting down. He put his hand on the big rock as tombstone as he looked around. "Is something wrong?"

"Nothing..." he answered distracted by something before he stood up and walked around the rock. "It seems like the rain eroded the rock and the small hiding spot doesn't exist anymore."

"What do you mean?" asked Ashley as she went to stand next to the man.

They started to talk to each other about the state of the rock. It was the first time I saw them together actually converse and not try to kill each other. But I didn't like it. They better be off trying to take each other's head.

However, the success of this business was my top priority. I leaned on the wall and watched them discuss about it. Aaron was doing some stuff on his phone looking uninterested in what was happening.

Almost half an hour later, Ashley called me to come see something. I pushed myself off the wall and squatted to see at the small hole under the rock. "This is where the remote is. Since the rock had been eroded through the years," she showed me the path of the erosion, "Kane and I agreed that this is where the remote fell."

I nodded understanding, "What do you plan to do take it out? We can't possibly move the rock, they have been clear about it. We should not damage anything."

"I know and fortunately for us, I have some of my equipment with me. So, with this little camera here," she showed me a screen with the image of what looked like a malformed rock.

"This is the remote," confirmed Kane.

"So, to take it out, I can dig a little here and there and then use one of my tools to extract it out without damaging anything. When we are finished, I can cover everything up and it will look like we never touched it!" she explained proudly.

"Can you do it now?"

She shook her head, "The tool to extract it is at the hotel, I didn't think we would need it today. I'm sorry."

"It's okay, it's getting late anyway. Let's come back tomorrow morning."

"You don't mean..." she asks incredulously. à

"Yeah, you can go shopping." 

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