He took a seat beside me again and picked up his fork.
“Missed your face,” I told him.
His brows pinched. “Doubtful. I was only gone for a moment.”
“Still missed you.” I turned back to Wolf. “You gotta fire your cooks so I can hire them. This shit is the best.” I sawed into the steak and popped the piece into my mouth, moaning around the meat that melted against my tongue.
Thinking of meat and my mouth, I glanced at Ryo, wanting his meat between my lips. I’d pay it the special attention it needed.
“Stop looking at me,” Ryo said with his eyes to his meal.
“I can’t help it. I bet you’d be just as delic—” I chuckled around the spring bean he’d shoved in my mouth.
Wolf pushed his chair back and stood. “This has been lovely, but Josh and I are tired?—”
“We are?” Ruin asked, the fork with a pile of food on it raised near his mouth.
Wolf threaded his fingers through Ruin’s hair and gripped. “Yes, pet. Very tired.”
“Right.” He faked a yawn as he placed the fork down on his plate. “But if I wake up in the middle of the night, I can get someone to bring me food?”
Wolf nodded. “Of course.”
“You’re not being subtle at all,” Ryo said while glowering at them. He faced me. “Looks like dinner is done. You may go.”
Grinning, I shook my head. “Thanks for the offer, but I’m gonna finish this awesome food first. You can stay and keep me company.”
His jaw clenched.
“Goodnight,” Wolf called, dragging Ruin toward the door.
“Catch ya,” Ruin said before we heard him say to Wolf, “We’re getting food to the room now, right?”
Wolf sighed just as the door closed after them, so if he said anything in return, I wasn’t sure.
While we ate in silence, a couple of waiters came in and took some trays away, and I smirked around my mouthful, knowing that they were getting the food for Ruin.
“Do you have family?” I asked between my last bites.
“Yes” was all he said.
“Cool. Parents? Siblings? Cousins?”
“All of the above, plus aunts and uncles. I have had nothing to do with them since the day my parents sold me, at eighteen, to the Takahashi family to become their loyal servant. They also wanted me to be their spy. It was pure luck I got placed with Wolf. When he gave me the option to cut my family from my life and to become whoever I wanted to be, it earned him my loyalty. That is why I’ve stayed at his side since.”
My gut clenched. I despised that for him. “Shit, Ryo. That fuckin’ sucks. But what about your siblings?”
“My two older brothers work for our father and stood beside him when they sold me. My life is better off without any of them in it, and once I informed them that I wouldn’t be supplying them with any type of details about the Takahashi family, they dropped me from their lives.” He took a gulp of his water. “That was after they tried to have me killed.”
“What the fuck?” I blurted. “Serious?”
He grinned. What would he be grinning about?
“All five attempts failed due to Wolf and I stopping them. Then I figured, when no one else tried for years after, that my family refused to pay another person to fail. Besides, they’re too lazy to try and kill me themselves.”
“Jesus, Ryo. Can I kill them?” Why hadn’t he?
He pushed his plate away and shook his head. “I want nothing to do with them and no one else in my life to bother with them either.”
