"We need to talk," Luca spoke as he walked up to Xerxes. The man stopped in his tracks, turning to his father with a confused look. He knew if it had something to do with Riley. Xerxes didn't want to hear it.
"If it's about Riley, I don't want to hear it. I'm done with her games, dad. Riley is doing whatever she can think of to get me to notice her. Frankly, I'm tired of it. I know she came running to you yesterday like she always does went things don't go her way. What did she tell you? Did she say how she went off on her sons? How she slapped Xavier and disrespected our Donna." He spoke as Luca stood there without saying a word.
This was new. His father was never speechless, or it could have been because he was upset that Xerxes wasn't letting him talk. Either way, he didn't want to discuss Riley or what he thought was wrong with the woman. She was selfish and self-centered to X; that was all it was to it. Her bipolar disorder was just the topping of it all.
"Yes, Riley did come to me yesterday and talked about how she was going to try and get you back. Also about how to repair her relationship with her sons, but this isn't about Riley. Although I would advise you to watch your back before she fuck up things with you and Amoy."
"Yeah, that you don't have to warn me about. I had to kick her out of my house this morning. I came up from the gym... with Xavier, Elias, Elijah, and Barkley. There she was, cooking breakfast as she lived there. Zay gave her an ear full while Elias, Eli, and Ark thought it was funny. I know she was trying to be nice and thought it would warm her way back, but I'm done. I can't be that fool anymore."
"Good. But this is partially my fault and Rodney's. We thought you would be a good match and decided to make an agreement. If I hadn't lied to you about the Chinese, none of this shit would have happened." He spoke as Xerxes stood there shaking his head.
None of them knew what the outcome of him and Riley would be. Their problem had nothing to do with his father lying or him sleeping with others before they were together. The problem always was the person that was by Riley's side... Mariah. Even in death, she found a way to haunt him and ruin his life. She wanted Riley's life, and it wasn't good enough that she had his brother. Mariah wanted him and did whatever she could to cause problems between him and Riley. Ones that he fell for, which led up to their broken marriage.
"Nein, you and Pops had nothing to do with our relationship failing. It's all on us. Riley listened to her friend, and I refused to acknowledge the problem. Instead, I gave her want she wanted to make her happy. I will always love Riley. I can't just let go of that love, but I can't go back to her and wonder what if in the back of my head. I-I got a DNA test done on all my children...."
"And?"
"And all of them are mine except Xeon. I should be happy, but it hurts to know she didn't have faith in me to see if we could have another baby. Then it makes me think about Amoy... is she happy with having only one child with me as she helps me raise two eleven-year-olds, a nine-year-old, and a three-year-old. She deserves the world." He speaks as his father smirks.
"Then give her the world Xerxes. Shit, you are still young; thirty-nine is nothing. Give that woman another child before you get too old to care for another child. Trust me; you don't want to be fifty-five and find out your wife is pregnant at fifty. Fucking shit almost gave me a heart attack." He said as X laughed.
"Yeah, I'll think about it. What was it that you needed to talk to me about?"
"Oh, nothing now...."
"You asshole, you just fucking baited me! This is why I fucking hate psychiatrists. Dad, what I have told you about that mess, why do you keep doing this?"
