Teach Me How To Love [mxmxm]

XXXI

[Third Person]

Qi and Xunan certainly weren't expecting to find Yun on the other side of a phone call in the middle of the day, even less when her slow English ordered them to meet her at her office in an hour. With ten minutes to spare, they were now sat in front of her desk, similar to the day that they searched for her when Jae went into captivity. It wasn't a pleasant memory.

"Did you need us?" Xunan asked gingerly. He and Qi weren't unaware of the fact that they had been at her residence for a while now because of their need to stick to Jae. With fingers crossed, they hoped she wasn't banning them from seeing him.

Her lips pressed together into a thin line, sitting and staring at them in silence. "So-Young."

The two men in the office immediately narrowed their eyes, leaning forward, bodies stiff with alert.

"What's wrong?"

"Did something happen with her?"

Yun raised her hand, silencing them with a single motion. "I am not finished. Sit back. There is nothing wrong with her. I called you here to offer a proposal."

Having made known that there was no immediate danger coming their or Jae's way, they relaxed back into the backs of the cushioned chairs.

"You have helped rescue him, have helped nurse him back to health and you have visited him and kept him company—in the hospital and even after he was released. Answer me this: do you plan on stringing him along or are you...courting him?"

Qi and Xunan shared a single glance and with needless fluidity, their interchanged answers rushed out their mouths.

"We would never think of stringing him along. We really do only have pure intentions with him."

"Yeah, it's not just a quick bang and then dumping him and leaving."

"No, we want to see him so happy, he'll never have that frown on his face again. Seeing him broken down in that room broke us. It was like a piece of us had shattered and was desperately asking us to glue it back together."

"He's not just a revision project either. We want to see him happy, healed from everything that he keeps inside. It might not seem like that, but we really do have the best intentions for him."

"And if the Triads return to China?" Yun paused their rambling.

"We..." Xunan trailed off, looking at Qi. Their eyes met and with a single nod, they steeled their resolve. "We'll stay here. With him."

She raised a single brow, her arms crossed against her chest. "You are not footmen for the Triads. You work alongside the head of the family. There are many important tasks for you to do for him and for the family. You would choose an uncertain infatuation over your loyalty to your family?"

Qi decided that perhaps, it was time to intervene. "It's not about choosing love over family. Our lovers become our family and if Jae wants and needs us here, then we'll stay by him until he becomes a part of our family. They're one in the same thing."

And he meant it. There was nothing they would stop at to protect Jae, to keep him happy. Perhaps it was their untamed obsession for him that fanned this flame, but so far, it had only proved to serve them well.

Jae no longer strayed from their presence. He would search them out when the door opened and they walked through after their phone call notified him of their arrival. And even if Jae didn't want to admit it, they watched him close enough to know the way that his body melted into theirs when they all slept in the same bed at night, small and pressed up against their chests. They'd never let him out of their grasp now. They were in too deep and when—not if—they claimed him as theirs and he claimed them back, the satisfaction would be indescribable.