cake oneshots || book two

My Kingdom For Your Graces (And You Can Worship Me Too) (E)

Credit: Migs

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"Mister Hood. Your car is ready." Calum's driver let the older man know just when he was saving the last updates on the file. It was Sunday evening and Calum was currently stuck in his office. On Valentine's Day of all days.

It was all Michael's fault really. The other guy was supposed to hand in the new game drafts by Friday but him and his fiancé Ashton just acquired themselves a puppy. So Michael blatantly ignored Calum's urgent calls in favour of the new family member. And if him and Calum weren't life long friends and cofounders of Malum Bros aka the biggest gaming company in Sydney, Calum would probably have fired him a long time ago. Instead he just checked one more time that all the documents were just where they were supposed to be for tomorrow's presentation before heading to the elevator.

The ride from the top floor was just long enough for him to check his reflection in the elevator's mirror wall. After all, he couldn't just enter a posh restaurant with an eyecandy on his hand, messy hair and rumpled suit.

"Where to first Mister Hood?" The driver enquired once the businessman was safely seated in extremely comfortable leather seat of a slick black car.

"We are picking up Luke first. So to the university apartment please." Calum directed before turning his attention back to the phone to send some last minute pointers to Michael. It took them a good ten minutes to get from the City to the nice new apartment block just on the edge of Sydney University campus. Calum bought the apartment a while ago as a property investment but it was now serving as Luke's residence whilst the blond was pursuing his studies.

The car barely came to a stop in front of the modern looking building when the entrance door was opening and revealing pretty suit clad blond. The driver quickly jumped out of the car to open the door for Luke who thanked him before climbing inside. The blond smiled fondly at Calum before he was pressing their lips together in a soft welcome kiss.

"Missed you." Luke mumbled into the older man's neck who smiled at the sweet tone of younger boy's voice.

"Missed you too baby." He replied before separating himself from the blond but not letting their hands go.

It was a short ride back to the city and they arrived just in time for their 7pm reservation at the Quay restaurant. They were promptly seated at the table by the window which offered a beautiful view of the Opera House that was glowing golden in the evening light.

Calum smiled fondly as Luke scrunched his nose in distaste when he took his first sip of wine. "We are gonna make a wine drinker out of you one day Luke."

"I don't think so. This must cost a fortune but to me it just tastes disgusting." The blond stated.

Calum continued smiling through the dinner as he watched the blond eat. He still couldn't believe that it was only a year ago when him and Luke met for the first time.

It was all Ashton's fault. They had a big launch of the new game called Virtual Love and of course they had to launch it with a boom on Valentine's Day. Ashton was absolutely livid with Michael that he was spending his day working instead of taking him somewhere nice. No amount of pre Valentine's sex has changed Ashton's mind of bringing someone else as a date to the event.

That's where Luke came into the play. It just so happened that Ashton inherited this small apartment in the near vacancy of university which he was renting to, at the time, completely broke first year student Luke. They came to an (in Michael's opinion slightly illegal) agreement that Ashton will give Luke March free rent if he were to attend the event with him. Calum can most definitely see why Ashton did that. Luke was young and beautiful with his mile long legs, big blue eyes and bright blond hair. He would (and did) make Michael jealous and thus serve Ashton's purpose nicely.