(BL) Mafia Love; He who falls the hardest loses-Chapter 101: The call

Haruki returned home to the news from Ren that there was nothing unusual about the prime minister and his son.

He could finally exhale a sigh of relief but that did not mean he could ease his heart completely off the thought of a possible conspiracy and someone hidden in the dark controlling things beyond him.

He washed up and went to bed almost immediately after working out for a while after his dinner and further discussions with Ren. Shortly after closing his eyes to sleep, he heard his phone vibrate on the nightstand where he had left it for the night.

If it were a more formal call, he would have expected the person to call Kiyoshi but since the person reached out to him first, that means the person had something to tell him that was a bit personal after all, it was not just anyone who had access to his private number.

It was off his work hours and he was even about to sleep but since the person chose to call him without fear, he picked up the phone. It was that same foreign number. It was not hard for him to remember it was the number that called him earlier that day.

He could not help but wonder what time it was in that country. He picked up the call without much hesitation.

"Hello," Hiroshi’s voice spoke from the other end.

"Hello," Haruki responded almost immediately this time.

"Hope I did not wake up?" Hiroshi asked with a bit of caution in his voice.

"No, you did not wake me up, I was about to sleep though," Haruki replied almost too naturally.

"That’s good then, I just wanted to find out how you’re doing," Hiroshi said after a few seconds of silence as though he had not expected Haruki to respond to his question the way he did.

"Are you asking as my doctor or as my sex partner?" Haruki asked giving in to the sudden urge he felt when the man asked about his welfare. He was curious to know what was on the man’s mind when he called him.

"Both," Hiroshi replied the smile a bit evident in his voice as he responded.

Hearing the man’s smile in his voice made Haruki furrow his brow. Like he had not even verbally accepted to forgive the man but the man was already aiming for something.

"What right do you have to ask as both?" Haruki asked giving in to yet another urge to make things a bit difficult for the man on the other end.

Hiroshi remained silent for yet another few seconds before he cleared his throat and when he answered, the smile was far from his voice, "None." His voice sounded very serious, solemn and docile like a child getting scolded for wrongdoing.

"I am glad you are aware of that. How is Aki?" Haruki asked seriously as he decided to stop torturing the man mentally but deep down he could not help but wonder if the man was just pretending to be sorry and sincerely felt no guilt for what he had done.

"Aki is doing a lot better," Hiroshi replied his voice going a lot deeper with more seriousness than Haruki wanted to hear in his voice.

"Now, you are sounding like his doctor," Haruki could not help but comment on the change in the man’s voice.

"Oh. . . I. . .," the doctor began but didn’t know how to continue the sentence. "I was just saying he is doing better and I might be able to return to the country soon."

"Oh as my doctor?" Haruki feeling an urge to tease the man again asked.

"Yes, as everything," Hiroshi replied after clearing his throat.

The man’s words had Haruki thinking perhaps he did not want to say who he was to Haruki completely perhaps because he was shy or . . . Haruki didn’t feel the urge to ask so he said, "As what?"

The doctor paused for a few seconds and cleared his throat again before he said in a small voice, "As your sex partner."

His voice had come out small as though the man was whispering scared that someone would hear. He was in a foreign country, and he wondered what the man was scared of after all the possibility of something understanding what he was saying was low unless he was with his brother.

That coming to his mind made him wonder if Aki knew who Hiroshi was to him so he asked the man again, "As what?"

"As your sex partner," Hiroshi replied this time louder as though he had given up being shy about what he wanted to say.

Haruki smiled running his finger through his hair. He adjusted the blanket around himself. There was something so sexy about hearing Hiroshi say that. He could not explain it nor pinpoint the reason.

Perhaps it was because of how the man’s voice was so deep and almost sounding possessive with the sentence he just said. Haruki quickly brushed that aside considering that he should not be pleased with a man claiming possession over him.

Perhaps it was the way he was feeling. Perhaps the temperature of the air conditioner needed to be turned down a bit. He cleared his throat as memories of what they had done in the same room, on the same bed came flooding his mind.

"Are you alone?" he suddenly asked. He pressed his lips together wishing he could go back in time and press a hand over his lips to prevent saying such words.

He had never had a phone sex but he had a feeling that asking Hiroshi such a question could hint at a lot of somethings he might not want the man to misunderstand. But was it really a misunderstanding?

"No, I am not. I am with Aki," Hiroshi replied calmly.

Haruki cleared his throat as it seemed the man did not know what he was implying by asking that question. Perhaps the doctor thought it was simply out of curiosity.

"Okay then. I want to sleep."

The doctor paused and Haruki did not seem to have the luxury at the moment to ask him why he wasn’t talking or wait for him to speak first.

Haruki impatiently told him, "Bye."

He did not give the doctor the chance to reply as he hung up the call. He returned his phone to the table wondering how innocent the doctor had to be to not understand the hint in his tone when he asked if he was alone.

Haruki also scolded himself for feeling so sex deprived that he asked such a question while anticipating such a thing. He rose up from the bed and went into the bathroom to shower once again but this time with cold water.

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