Touch ¦ Aether Harem🔞 [MEN]

CHAPTER 1

3rd person POV

Aether was on his way to his small little run down office, as scrap of papers kept falling off his two frail arms. Curse being small, he cussed to himself. This has nothing to do with it tho.

It was taking him forever not until a pair of hands had grabbed the papers that had fallen off the ground, to be honest this papers are actually not that important, some were actually taxes that aether had to pay, and some were debts that he hadn't paid yet. How troublesome he thought.

"I suppose this are yours?" a man with explicitly long hair tied into a twig waved while smiling at him, he is quite charming tho?

"ah thank you. Yes they are mine,, I was headed to my office and they kept falling off the folder.." he clicked his tounge as the man hummed grabbing the spare folders off aether's arm.

"may I help you carry these?" aether was abit taken a back knowing a stranger was willing to help and ofcourse he wouldn't mind a little help.

He nodded and the man seems to be satisfied with his reply.

"I'm aether by the way." aether introduced giving a small handshake gesture.

"Zhongli, you're a detective am I right?" Zhongli shook aethers hand as he squeezed it before letting go, this was abit strange for aether but then again it must be normal for a mere handshake.

"yes although it's hard for people to notice..." aether chuckled as he looked down too embarass to look straight at zhongli's gaze.

Zhongli only answered with a small nod as the both continued to walk until they reached aethers run down office.

'ah so ambarassing! I should've saved abit of money to repair the door or even the sofa..' aether thought as he turned the knob of his door.

'clack'

Was the sound the knob made as it was separated from the door making aethers face go pale. Is it that bad that the knob has to be broken at the wrong time?

Zhongli stared for a minute before completely loosing it and started laughing abit, aether covered his temples as he sighs in embarrassment.

"I swear I'm trying to make this place a bit stable but at some point I just couldn't.." aether mumbled but was enough to hear by the man who was stopping himself from chuckling.

"uh huh.. Do you also want a little help with opening the door?" zhongli offered hovering on aethers small figure.

"yes please.."

Zhongli brought a pair of twizers out of knowhere and began pulling something inside the hole where the knob was separated. Aether was too amused to look away as the broken door was miraculously opened by Zhongli.

"ah, I couldn't thank you enough Mr. Zhongli! Is there anything I could do to repay you?" aether said as he went inside his office and hurriedly placed the folders on his desk along with the broken knob. He looked back at the man who also went inside to place the spare folders on his desk.

"there is no need for repaying me. I didn't ask for one in the first place" zhongli smiled genuinely making aether feel guilty..

"I insist," aether spoke then mumbled "I feel indebted for some reason" zhongli smiled as if he knew this was bound to happen.

The man in silhouette silently walked towards aether and gently holded his hand placing a soft kiss on top of it, aether quickly retracted his hand and was in complete shock.

"no need to be shock my dear, it is only a small courtesy from me. Although you wanted to repay me, rather I want to make a request instead" zhongli continued. Hovering over aether as if the space between the two had been redacted.

Aether couldn't speak as he could feel the pressure in the air and thus making him in a state of panic. Was he wrong from the start? Trusting people easily... So unlikely of aether.

"you wanted to find your sister. Am I wrong?"

Aether's breath hitched as he glared at zhongli with pure rage.

"how do you know about that !" aether yelled grabbing the man's collar trying his best to pull him down.

"oh my, so feisty? How about this, you meet me at 4 in the noon at the Cafe two blocks away from here. Then we can talk this out?" zhongli replied pulling aether's waist close to him.

Aether was so flustered and began pushing the man which he has successfully do so, but knowing in the near future he won't be doing that so easily.

" please stop touching me." aether mumbled, being touched without consent was unbearable for aether, knowing full well him and his sister had gone through it so many times.

There was a tense feeling building up in aether's chest as he can only wait for this dangerous man's reply..

"I will be waiting then." zhongli spoke as he leaned at the door frame." I put some cash at your desk. Although they are not mine, keep them in good use for your office." he added before turning away, waving.

What? Leaving just like that? No gun needed? Aether has only seen those cliché scenes on televisions and he hates to admit that he was kinda expecting those. I guess people are a bit cautious this days.

Aether looked at his desk and found that zhongli wasn't joking about giving him money, it was too much for aether but then again money is money and it was something that he needed the most.

Before aether took the money he thought about how zhongli had known about his sister, he thought as if meeting him wasn't a coincidence..

Aether just shrugged it off and continued what he has to do before meeting zhongli at the Cafe he had mentioned earlier.

(ok this chapter consist of 980+ words I cutted it short since the second chapter will be much longer than this. Also I want to apologize in advance if I publish very slow. Thank you for reading!)