Loving the mafia prince ( book #1 of loving the mafia)

Chapter 37

Lei slowly pushed himself away, "A-Akira, I'm sorry." He lets out ashamed of what he had just done. He didn't want to force Akira, he knew he didn't have feelings for him but after seeing the look on his face as he was enjoying life again all self control he had disappeared All he knew was that he wanted to be up against Akira not caring about the consequences

"I don't know what over came me." He adds looking up at his friend, "Lei- I love Luca, we can't do this." Akira answers sadly, sad that he had to be hurting his best friend like this, Lei knew it was coming but it didn't hurt any less.

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"So, let's not- Ah, talk about this." Lei says looking down at the smooth stairs outside of Lucas house, still remembering How it felt to have his lips against Akira's. "Lei-" Akira begins feeling bad for his friend, did he let him down to hard? "Please, let's just go back to how we were, I had enough rejection for today." Lei begs looking at Akira, who smiled sadly. "Okay, then I'll see you tomorrow." He slowly says hoping his friend wouldn't push himself away from him.

"Yeah, of course." He answers smiling

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Akira dropped onto Luca's bed, he sighed looking up at the white perfect ceiling. He had been completely oblivious to Lei's feelings for him, sure he noticed that he treated him nicely and how close they were but he thought that was just because he cared for him like a brother, he never thought that Luca had been right about lei's feelings, that he wasn't just being possessive about him because Lei had been close to him, to think that he really did have feelings for the male.

Akira shook his head, it wouldn't do any good to think about it. He had no feelings for lei in that way, all of his love had belonged to Luca, there was no way that him and lei would ever be more than just friends and as much as that made him feel bad for lei it was the truth, Akira sat up from the bed looking at the closed bathroom door, the shower was running which meant Luca was most likely in the shower

Akira smiled at the thought and quickly got up wanting to go join the boy only his leg cramped up making him fall with a thump onto the floor, bumping into the bedside, a photo frame of Luca and his family photographed obviously years ago fell to the ground with a smash.

"Akira?" Luca calls out from the bathroom, "I-I'm fine, I fell but it's alright!" He calls back. "You sure?!" Luca questions worriedly making Akira smile at his worried tone, "I'm fine Luca!" He answers going to clean up the broken glass

He hoped Luca wouldn't be to mad but it hadn't seemed like he had a good relationship with his family to begin with or the photo as he does put it away a lot of times, though it always has a way of finding itself onto his nightstand somehow, his mother's work no doubt. He picks up the glass putting it and the now empty frame into a trash bag opening the drawer in the nightstand hoping to put the photo inside for safe keeping, he'd get Luca a new frame later

Curiosity overwhelms Him though as he opened the drawer to a small box, small enough to keep inside the drawer under a few other things but big enough to keep a few different decent sized items inside, he bites his lip and looks at the door, Luca usually took awhile in the shower, he'd just peek inside and then put it back, he picked up the box setting it on the ground opening it up

He couldn't help but clench his fist at the contents, photos, of him and lei? When they were younger, that didn't make sense lei and Luca hated each other they didn't know one another but then, Why would they have photos with each other?

He quickly rumbles through the box setting the photos aside, his hands tremble as he picks up other items that seemed obviously important enough to keep for multiple years such as lei's favorite candy and other photos, Luca opened the door walking out to Akira.

"Akira-" he starts surprised as he sees the box.

"What is this?" Akira questions clenching his fist he quickly got up, "Why do you have things and photos as if you two were once lovers?!" He questions, "You know I always noticed how you never seemed to look at me those years, but for some reason you'd always be in my sight as if you were watching me, but it wasn't me you were watching, it was lei wasn't it?" He questioned