Tabula Colton

Chapter 5- Sad Eyes Never Lie

"Baby, You awake?" Mr. Takada said as he kissed my forehead. 

I'd pretended to be napping, but as soon as I laid down my body felt the exhaustion from the previous day's injuries. I felt his lips on my face, and blinked up at him with a yawn.

He stared down at me with tender eyes and I felt a sharp pain of guilt. How could he be so in love with this boy after all the shit Colton had put him through? Did he really not know about the men Colton was engaging?

I sat up and his lips came towards mine. He pushed back my hair and then put his hand to my forehead like he was checking for a fever. 

He had the sleeves rolled up on his white suit. He sat next to me on the bed and moved my casted arm to rest on a pillow.

"Where did you go dressed like that?" I asked and added a yawn. He looked like a muscular docent at a fancy spiritual retreat. I hadn't thought much about it earlier.

"Business event for the East Asian men's group. I get a lot of clients from there, but it's a weird dress code for certain meetings," he said as he reached down to untie his shoes. "How's my sweet boy? Feeling better?"

"I'm ok, just worn out and achy. What kind of business do you do?" I realized I hadn't asked a lot of questions about him. 

Maybe it would help me understand what had happened between him and Colton. My detective mode was fully turned on. Things weren't adding up.

"Right now I put investors together for large-scale drug development projects. There's a ton of new cash coming in from China and Malaysia and I'm working on some exciting new stuff. Before that I was an app developer, mostly health and fitness. I sold off the majority of those to bigger firms, but I still get the royalties and returns on stocks." he said.

"None of that sounds familiar," I shook my head.

"It wouldn't... Colton never really cared about that stuff. I don't think you ever asked about it other than how much I made," he laughed and rubbed my stomach. 

That sounded funny. He'd said they'd been together for a few months and lived in the same house. Wouldn't Colton have known what he did for a living?

I watched Mr. Takada get up and change out of his clothes. He put on a pair of shorts and t-shirt then helped me change out of my unused gym clothes. He made me keep on the jockstrap after admiring my ass for a few minutes.

"Put this on, it's chilly. This one is your favorite," he said and handed me a light blue and white hoodie with pointed fox ears on the hood. 

He zipped me up and put up the hood to show me in the mirror. Colton's innocent green eyes beneath the pointy fox ears made him look innocent.

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We walked down to Sunset for lunch at a buffet. Mr. Takada insisted that I load up since I'd pretty much skipped breakfast. I looked around with my plate and picked out some things I liked while he went in the other direction.

I headed back to the table and was just about to bite into a piece of sushi when he came running over and smacked it out of my hand. The crab roll went flying over to the next table which thankfully was empty. 

The restaurant went silent and we were now the main attraction.

"What are you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself? You didn't eat any of that, did you?" he yelled. He dropped his plate on the table and then snatched mine away. He handed it to a passing waiter. I looked at him dumbfounded. He sighed as if suddenly remembering my situation.