XAVIER IS DYING

Xavier is Dying: 39

Chapter 39

Xanders POV

Bella and I had fell asleep, spoons and empty ice cream tubs scattered across the floor. I was extremely comfortable until the bedroom door slammed open causing Bella and I to jump, me falling off the bed in the first place.

"Ow!" I groaned into the floor, Bella bursting out laughing.

"You will never believe- heyyy you guys had a sleepover without me?" Zac whined. "And ice cream?"

"Sorry." Bella and I replied in unison as if we were children being scolded by their mothers.

"Whatever, you won't believe what I heard!" Zac exclaimed, throwing himself onto the bed.

Mumbling obscenities, I got into bed too with Bella on my left and Zac on my right.

"Does it happen to involve a lovely girl called Molly?" Bella chimed in.

"Yes! You guys already know? Is that why there's ice cream?" Zac asked, question after question tumbling out his mouth.

"Found out yesterday and yes." I answered the boy, him nodding in understanding.

"Well, I'm mad at Dante. How dare he keep that from me, and hurt you! His only brother! God, I was so annoyed and I thought you didn't know so I kicked his shin, stole his car and drove here." Zac explained causing us to chuckle.

"The three musketeers!" Bella joked.

"Exactly." I told her, laughing too.

We decided it was going to be an in bed day. I asked Ray to cancel all my meetings when he came in with breakfast and now we were watching our second rom-com of the morning when the door banged open again.

"My poor door." I whined, watching it rattle.

"ugh, leave." Zac and Bella said at the same time, realising it was their two mates, panting by the door.

"Let us explain." Ricky panted out. "God I'm so unfit."

"It's the dad bod coming in." Dante panted back.

"Yeah, and what's your excuse?" He snapped back at him.

All three of us watched the two in amusement, letting them bicker before their gaze came back to us. It was safe to say our amused faces instantly dropped.

"We were sworn to secrecy. We didn't like it at all." Dante spoke first as Ricky rapidly nodded.

"Aries told us he was going to tell you last weekend, Xander. We thought he had. Until yesterday. That's what the argument was about that you heard Bella. When I went over after it was to convince him to come over here and tell you or I would. I kept it for a week because he said he wanted to tell you himself in person which would be at the weekend and well you know I thought he had. I wouldn't let him hurt you willingly, Xan." Ricky explained, addressing me at the end.

"It's true, we stopped speaking to him too yesterday." Dante jumped in.

"Oh..." The duo next to me grumbled sheepishly.

"Oh." Dante and Ricky replied.

"My bad." Zac mumbled.

"um so, why is he doing all this, risking losing me, again!" I asked, frustrated.

"Molly has him wrapped up in a stupid world. He let them in for one night because it was freezing and she said she just needed somewhere for one night. Then, She told him the girl was his. He believed it because she has his eyes, hell, I believed it too until I remembered you telling us she wasn't at the party but Aries just said you must have been wrong." Ricky started when Dante jumped in.

"Aries didn't see you last weekend because he now feels an obligation to the baby and Molly. He told us he loves you and doesn't want to give you up but he can't lose the heir to his pack. His daughter, his baby. Molly...well she's soaking it up and acting happy families. It's clear Aries loves you and is only doing this for the baby but Molly is wriggling her way in, or trying to."

"But, if he was doing this for the baby, why couldn't he just tell me that?" I wondered out loud.

"Because you said the baby wasn't his. He doesn't want to believe that. And to be fair, she does have his eyes. He feels like he would need to live this double life and Molly had him choose. You or his daughter. And, well, you can guess what he picked. That's why we stopped talking to him. He hurt you so much in the process to getting here, things were so great and for him to throw you out like a rag doll after all that, over an illegitimate child...we couldn't be his friend." Ricky finished to which I nodded, silent.

"I'm sorry, Xander. It's for the best." Dante mumbled.

I scoffed.

"I'm a fucking king. He wants to act like a fucking jester then he can. But I want to see this in person. He can pick, to my face. He doesn't get the easy cop out. I'm not weak anymore. I'm not going to let him get away with this like I would have in the past, like he thinks I'm going to. If he picks her to my face then fine." I snapped.

With those final words, I got up, slipping on my vans and grabbing my car keys to the black Range Rover. I'd finally settled on this car after driving all of the other cars realising I liked this one best.

"Ok, Zac can drive a car, Dante can drive a car and I'll take Bella back in my car." Ricky explained as they all followed behind me.

"Sounds good." I replied curtly.

That prick.

Aries was going to pay.