krystalkatzficz | The Demons Lover part 22

“Wow, it’s so big” Sho whistled after they had been walking for hours. It hadn’t looked this big from the outside and every inch of the space was filled with objects, objects that he couldn’t even imagine were real. There were so many things that he had never even seen or even heard of before. There were a dozen or more religious objects but there was a whole room of dark objects that caused tingles to run over his spine. “How could Lilith get all of this?”

“She knows people, sells things that she doesn’t want anymore and buys things that she does. It was a nightmare when I lived with her. I couldn’t move for stuff” Nino gave a shudder and Sho chuckled at the action his arm wrapping around his waist. “I wish that she had had this place then”

“Would you have stayed with her?” Sho asked almost nervously his heart thumping in his chest. He could feel the sexual tension between Lilith and Nino. It wasn’t completely one sided either. He didn’t have anything on Lilith and he couldn’t see why Nino was with him when he had Lilith.

“Fuck no, she and I are two completely different people...Are you worried that I would rather be with Lilith than you? How could you think that? I was with Lilith at a very dark time in both our lives” Nino hummed stopping walking so he could turn to look at him. “Lilith was everything that I wanted to be...In a sense...I have never had a desire to wear impractical heels and less clothes than imaginable but I did and still do admire her freedom and her independence”

“Sorry, I shouldn’t question...” Sho flushed in embarrassment remembering quite suddenly that he had only met this man a few days ago. He had no rights over him. Nino was bound to have a past and that much was clear from the fact that he had an ex-wife and more men following him than in the movies.

“No, you are mine and I am yours, questions are never bad, Sho-kun. My father never liked us to question. He desired that we were all to submit to his will, that he knew what was best for us. I have always found a questioning mind to be an enlightened one. I will never be annoyed by questions...” Nino smiled his hand coming to caress his cheek and Sho marvelled at how soft his skin was. It was clear that he had lot of power and wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and yet he was as silky smooth as the marble statues all around them. “Lilith will always be a part of my past and life, but you are my future and although I like to remember the past, I have always enjoyed the promise of the future more...Shall we go eat? You must be hungry, we have been in here for hours...”

“Um...Yeah...I could...I mean...Yeah...” Sho flushed brilliantly at Nino’s words of him being his future. He had no idea how anybody could be so easy to express his feelings like that. In the novels that he had read it was only in cheesy romance novels. Real men didn’t talk like that and yet Nino said things that most would find embarrassing with such sincerity that Sho couldn’t help but believe in them. His mind reminded him of one of his teachers warning of the silver tongued serpent but he pushed it away as Nino smiled, his eyes dancing in his face as he hummed;

“Okay, then let’s go”

“What about Lilith?”

“I’m sure she will join us. But first, I would like some time to talk to you. You clearly have more questions, about my life perhaps and my relationship with Lilith. So, we shall go first and talk and Lilith can meet us when she likes” Nino took his hand again and linked their fingers in an easy way tugging him through the network of corridors and out into the main foyer. They didn’t see another living thing and Sho noticed that Nino didn’t even touch his phone but he was confident that Lilith would know what was happening.

“Lilith brought us in her car” Sho pointed out as they left the museum but Nino shrugged motioning with his head to a restaurant on the other side of the street. It was a small elite looking building all chrome silver and shiny black and although Sho was naive about the ways of the world he knew that it was a high class establishment and one that probably had a six month waiting list for a table. It wasn’t the place that people went just when they were feeling a little peckish. “We don’t have a reservation”

“We don’t need one. Trust me” Nino smiled squeezing his hand and pulling him to the road. It was almost strange how the lights changed to red as they approached stopping all of the traffic so they could cross without having to pause their stride. The doors of the restaurant were soon in front of them and Sho felt his insides squirm as he saw a man dressed in a smart black suit standing behind a podium just on the inside. He looked them up and down his lips forming into an unwelcome apology when Nino spoke first “The Ninomiya table”

“I...Ninomiya? I...Of course sir...” The host spluttered his calm professional demeanour changing almost immediately as he panicked. He struggled to recover and his back was almost hunched over as he led them through the busy floor to a private booth at the far end. It was as sleek and seductive as Nino’s rooms were in the hotel and Sho realised that it was the most old fashioned part of the whole restaurant with rich woods and golds with flowers and fruits all around the edge. They looked so real that it took Sho a moment to realise that they were carved out of stone and painted.

“Sit down”

“...You have your own table?”

“Yes, the owner is one of those that I once did business with. His dream was to have a successful restaurant, I made it happen...” Nino smiled waving away the host as he tried to offer them some wine. Nino did take the bottle, and the glasses, but he poured it himself. Sho felt his eyebrows knitting together wondering how he could have managed that. It wasn’t something that could be done with brute force.

“And what did you get?”

“I have yet to collect my price, at the moment he keeps a table for me...Or more often for Lilith...It is close to her museum after all” Nino rolled his shoulders and held up his glass between his thumb and forefinger studying the colour for a moment before putting it to his nose and letting out a slow happy sigh.

“You like wine?”

“...I like the smell, to drink I prefer whisky...but it is the wrong time of the day and the wines served here are famous, you should drink some, and then you should order...Before asking any question you may like...”

TBC

A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^