Secrets and Things (MxM)

Chapter 78 - Hi, how you doing?

"Do we? Is it to commend him? And don't call me that, Denny." Erwin asked, amusement seeped in his voice

"Fuck no. To complain obviously." Being the bigger person that he is, Aiden completely ignores the name calling.

"Who's complaining? I'm certainly not."

Aiden stuttered out a whole lot of gibberish. Is he...? "Are you flir–" before quickly shutting down the question because you don't ask your boss that under any circumstances without it being really fucking weird. He didn't want to know the answer to that, especially in front of all these people. He wouldn't know what to do. Instead, the red faced man pretended he wasn't having an internal crisis and sniped back. "Well, I certainly am."

"Why?" Erwin's face was still amused but there was a little bit of disappointment in his tone. Aiden picks it up.

"Because who the hell wants to constantly see their boss everywhere they go? That's like unnecessary stress," Aiden says, completely exasperated.

"HE'S YOUR BOSS?!" Mia squealed out. The two men whip their heads in her direction and she looked absolutely ecstatic.

"Uh, Mia? Why do you look like you're a crazy fangirl plotting–OOF" An elbow to the ribs by said person was enough to quickly shut Aiden up. She doesn't even look away from Erwin when she did it. I grumble under my breath but do nothing more.

"I'm SO glad you could make it to my birthday, Mr. Fonzo. Mother was telling me how you were invited and I was so excited to finally meet you."

Aiden scoffed at her antics and glared at her. I doubt the feeling is mutual from the other party. He probably would rather be in an accident on the way here.

Judging by the eyebrow twitch, Aiden was more than correct about the other man's irritation but said man was a professional and continued to talk to her in the fake cheery voice of his.

The electro user brought his attention back to the rest of the table and instantly, they all began bombarding him with questions and statements. Aiden wanted to run. He usually was quite outgoing but if they were anything like Mia, he'd rather seppuku.

He turned back to his boss and continued to stare at the man until he gained his attention.

Eventually, he felt the weight of the stare and turned towards Aiden with a raised eyebrow. The latter quickly mouthed, "Save me please, take me away."

Erwin lost composure and snorted in humour before covering his mouth with his hand. He glanced back at Mia, who didn't notice the change in behaviour and was still chattering away. He looked back and mouthed back, "No."

"Why?!" Aiden mouthed with an angry face.

Erwin went back to talking to the birthday girl and Aiden was about to throw a huge fit because apparently, being ignored by his boss, for who he might have more than platonic feelings, was not acceptable. But then he noticed that the other man was texting with his phone without looking at his screen.

Aiden's phone soon buzzed and notification happened to be from the man standing a metre away from him. The message read, "I thought you didn't want to see me everywhere you go. It gives you stress. Your actions aren't following your words."

Is this bitch salty? The temptation to punch Erwin nearly overwhelms Aiden but his need for an escape without being rude was deemed more vital.

So he swallowed his pride and did the one thing that always seemed to work with everyone.

He typed out, "Sowwy, I take it back. I didn't mean it. Please take me away on your white horse."

Aiden looked back to the other man with his signature pout and puppy dog eyes. As soon as Erwin read the message, his eyes widened and his head whipped towards his employee. The sight he was seeing was a sight to behold.