The Millimetres In Between Us

Ten - Riki's Brilliance

"Enough, save me some energy for today..." Riki whispered to Iason after their fourth round.

Iason had woken him up in the middle of the night, or more precisely early in the mornings to make love to him. Ever since they've officially become engaged, Riki had cut down his working hours to half per week, just so he and Iason would have more time spent together. And Iason simply took advantage of it.

Iason dislodged himself from Riki slowly, but not before he kissed Riki gently on his swollen lips.

Riki held his breath and shut his mouth so he could control himself from moaning out loud. His body had long betrayed him and had always gave away his feelings for Iason, so whatever the Blondie did to him, his body would eagerly accept it.

Iason couldn't help but stare at his thoroughly debauched man. Riki looked sexy and beautiful no matter how long he observed him and at what condition he was in. He just couldn't get enough of Riki.

Riki's cheeks blushed as he realised that Iason was focusing on him, so he pushed Iason aside with a slightly trembling hand. Iason moved just a little bit so Riki could shift himself to the edge of the bed and tried to get up.

"Let me carry you to the bathtub." Iason moved away from the bed and went to Riki. A soft sigh escaped from Riki's mouth as he was lifted effortlessly by Iason.

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As Riki observed his man from his side profile, he noticed that he felt like he knew Iason as soon as they met for the first time. That's why he didn't hesitate in getting to know the elite.

It actually broke his own principle in associating with the people outside of his 'territory', but he found that he's automatically at ease and he felt safe around Iason's presence. He didn't know why exactly, but Iason must have felt the same with him - and that's why the Blondie let him into his personal bubble this intimately. Iason never let anyone else into his personal bubble, except for his Mother.

"Lunch date." Iason's perfect mouth suddenly spoke. His eyes however didn't stray from their lecturer at the front of the lecture hall.

"Sure." Riki snorted and looked back to the front.

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"Iason, what are you planning? You're enjoying it too much." Riki said, as soon as he noticed that Iason had been scheduling something in his iPad, with great interest.

Iason stopped smiling his secret smile only Riki knew about, then he looked over to Riki's questioning expression. Riki's eyebrow raised as he saw Iason's twinkling eyes.

"It's a surprise for you." Iason smiled again.

Riki sighed. "Oh, just don't. Hey, tell your boss he shouldn't pour his money for such useless things... He doesn't need to spend more than necessary." He turned to his bodyguard standing just a few feet away from himself.

Iason chuckled at Riki's irritated face. "It's not anything alarming. Don't worry about it, I barely scheduled a few activities for us to spend over the next vacation."

Here came his dreaded fear. Iason clearly won't let him breathe alone long enough and to focus on his bartending job. "A few, huh. And who's us, exactly?"

"We can bring more people than just us. If you want to invite your friends, I'm going to add their names alongside ours in the trip."

Riki scowled by now. "If I find out what those activities or trip are I will cancel them out myself immediately, you hear me? We don't need to spend so much money to enjoy the semester break..." Riki continued to mumble as he walked ahead of the two who've been flanking his sides, his expression frowning in obvious tension.

His cute expression tickled Iason so much he just wanted to laugh out loud, but it'd break his usual stoicism, so he could just smile and averted his eyes.

Iason wanted to, no, needed to spoil his fiancee throughout the upcoming semester break. As far as he's concerned, he knew that Riki never gave himself a chance to truly relax at all, unless he's sleeping.

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"You're doing so much better, Riki." Iason complimented Riki as he handed his mock test papers back.

"Thanks to your ruthless mentoring, I can never slack off. I wonder why they're jealous of me and said I'm hogging you all to myself, when all I want to do is to find the easiest ways possible to study. On the other hand, they..." Riki shrugged nonchalantly as he looked at the scores.

Mock exams were one thing, but the real ones? They're approaching this semester's finals in three weeks and even Iason didn't play around anymore. He's turned on his cyborg teacher mode every time they're spreading their assignments and reference materials on the study tables.

"Well, you made it up to this point with your own continuous effort. If you don't have the mind and drive, you won't even try to do it."

Riki looked at Iason as he took the answer sheets from him. They still have a couple of hours to finish all this insanity before they actually need to sleep.

He had even traded a month and a half's worth of leave with Katze, in order to focus on his studies. He'd planned to work double for Katze during that break, but Iason apparently had a better idea.

Riki smirked to himself. So much for his carefully planned future agendas.

One day, Iason appeared in his life and half took over the helm from his hands for him, bit by bit.

Not that he minded it. Iason seemed to mold himself around Riki deliberately instead of engulfing him whole in one go, so he's not too suffocated by Iason's ways.

It's also so obvious that Iason's adapting his rich ass to Riki's commoner lifestyle, more than he himself to Iason's.

He did feel guilty to Iason's mother for taking most of Iason's free time, but she never addressed Riki about it, so he didn't really know if it's really okay.

Iason's scent and warmth invaded his personal bubble, bringing Riki out of his trail of thoughts. "You're crowding me..."

"I just want to be closer to you," Iason said as he shuffled closer to Riki's side.

Riki instinctively snuggled into Iason's side as soon as he stopped moving, much to Riki's own dismay. He's becoming more attached to this man, gosh...

Iason continued to point out the rest of Riki's errors and explained everything, while simultaneously flipping through his own textbook to breeze over them in an unbelievable speed-reading technique.

He needed to learn that technique too.

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