"Jum can we talk?" Yuvi came to Jum's cubicle after 7 days of no communication from him, on their first day of work after the holidays.
"What did you do?" Krystina whispered and Jum shrugged.
Jum closed the cabin door behind him and stood at the other side of the huge desk with Yuvi sitting on the CEO oversized chair. He was wearing a charcoal colour suit and a black shirt.
Jum felt his mouth watering and body reacting to the hunk in a suit on a power chair.
"I called, knocked your door! You disappeared?" Yuvi was staring at Jum with angry eyes and uncharted hunger.
"Sir! I was unwell and was worried." Jum said nervous and embarrassingly aroused.
"Worried?" Yuvi leaned forward and placed his elbows on the table.
"Ben! He is missing!" Jum whispered and looked up, suddenly feeling vulnerable and wanting Yuvi to take him in his arms.
"Was he in the fire?" Yuvi stood up and walked slowly around the table towards Jum.
Jum nodded and tears welled up, "He was in Altadena. Elida and her parents escaped and my family moved to my relatives but Ben, he is missing!" He started sobbing and Yuvi enveloped him in his arms.
"Since when?" Yuvi said against his silky black hair.
"Yesterday!" Jum mumbled against the expensive silk suit covering the huge muscular pecs.
"Still there was no reason to disappear after our time together! But it's not important right now. Let's find Ben and then you have a lot of explaining to do!" Yuvi said flatly and gently sat Jum on the plush chair.
He went back to his side and started making calls.
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Jum was sitting in the same cubicle after everyone had left, it was almost midnight. Yuvi was pacing the room and was on his phone the entire time.
Food was served for them and Jum left the room only for bathroom breaks and secret panic crying sessions, refusing to use the attached executive washroom.
He told his colleagues the current truth, that Big Boss was helping him find his best friend lost in the Californian fire.
"Hmmm! That's brilliant! Tell Jason, I owe him one! That's what I thought. Yes! It would be great if you can talk to him right now!" Yuvi said, finally smiling.
He had taken off the jacket and rolled up the sleeves over his huge forearms.
"Baby!" He kneeled in front of Jum, who had fallen asleep in the chair.
When Jum didn't wake up, he touched his cheeks gently with the back of his fingers.
"Baby!" He whispered.
Jum leaned into the fingers and sighed, stirring from his sleep and slowly opened his eyes.
He looked at Yuvi and rubbed his eyes with his knuckles.
"Baby! Talk to Ben!" Yuvi said softly and handed him the phone.
"Ben!" Jum said, his lips quivering. "Are you okay?" Tears started flowing on their own account.
"I was at a refuge area. Ranveer sent people to pick me. They picked everyone and are taking us to a safer place. I think they will take me to his place for the night and then drop me home." Ben sounded weak but relieved.
"You are a stupid fucker!" Jum said crying.
"And you are a dumb cow! Crying like a drama queen! Ranveer will think I didn't raise you well!" Ben joked, his voice sounding jaded, his throat parched.
Jum wanted to ask since when did Ben started calling Yuvi with his real name?
But didn't because the said Prince was still kneeling in front of him, those smouldering brown eyes never leaving Jum's face.
They hung up and Jum handed the phone to Yuvi mumbling, "Thank you!" trying not to cry like a dumb badly raised cow.
"Let's go home! I am tired!" Yuvi got up, standing too close to Jum, his bulge at eye level.
Jum raised his hand unconsciously and ran a finger against the fly.
Yuvi stepped back, "What the fuck are you doing?" He asked huskily, words not matching his tone.
Jum looked up, their eyes meeting and didn't say anything.
He really didn't know why he did what he did.
He touched Yuvi because he wanted to and had missed him so much.
"What games are you playing Jum? What do you want from me? You are constantly confusing me! Looks like I am the one on that roller coaster but a never ending bad one. First night you disappeared and came back. Then you wanted to...huh... be with me. And after making me feel like the happiest man on earth, you disappeared again! Refusing to talk to me. And now you are touching me!" He rubbed his face and turned around, trying not to look at Jum.
"Why are you torturing me? I haven't slept since the time you left. I stood outside your door and called you a thousand times, left you hundreds of messages." He picked up his jacket and walked to the door.
"I don't like games Jum. I am a simple person at heart. Drama and tears, I don't mind but games are not my thing! Now come with me, I will drop you home." He said with finality and left, leaving a speechless Jum behind.
'You fuck me and moan your exes name... and blame me for playing games?' He wanted to shout but couldn't.
It was Yuvi... his Prince... no one shouts at his Prince and definitely not him.
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Yuvi dropped Jum outside his apartment gate and left without a word.
Jum thought he was too wound up to sleep but he dropped dead as soon as his head hit the pillow, still fully dressed.
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