ZEE'S POV

I know well why Max wants to talk to me so much. Since he came to our house, and since all the issues became complicated, I started avoiding him.

I understand that this conversation is important and sooner or later we would have to talk, but I delayed it as much as I could.

- Finally! How much longer can we wait for you?! - Max yelled at me, and I just shrugged my shoulders, pretending not to be stressed at all. I had a strange feeling that Max wouldn't let me off the hook today.

- NuNew, I need to talk to Zee privately for a moment, please take Nat with you and(...)

- P'! Who do you think we are? Children? Or maybe you want to be our(...) I have better ways to please my friend than shopping.

I saw Nhu snuggle up to Nat and place his hand on his butt. I wagged my finger at NuNew, pretending to be angry, and then glanced at Max.

Max was furious! The truth is that NuNew and Natasitt are best friends and quite close, which I can accept, believing in their friendship, but Max isn't as accepting. It's not that Max doesn't accept their friendship, he's just a bit more possessive. He sees Nhu as a devil trying to take away his happiness. Max is so afraid of losing Nat again so he sees competition in everyone.

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- You managed to avoid me for a long time. - Max smiled at me ironically.

- Sooner or later we would have to talk.

- I see that you preferred later.

- Max, it's all so...

- ...I know, fucked up, isn't it?

- Exactly. - I agreed with him.

- You know what, Zee? You can't even imagine how grateful I am to you.

- Max... I have been with you. I was with you in high school. I was with you in college. And I am now at work. I was there when you started dating Nat and I was there when you broke up with him. I know you better than anyone else. I have been with you and I will be, just as you are with me. - I reached out my arms toward him, allowing him to cuddle into me.

- I never thought it would work out. When I saw the photo of Nat with Aof on the internet, I lost my mind. I wanted to come here without any plan and drag the bastard out of the house just as he is, even if he was just in his boxers. I have no idea what I would have done to him. Thank you for stopping me.

- Max, we both know that it wouldn't have been a good idea. We needed a plan, a good one. What's your next move with Nat?

- I don't know. I love him. I've always loved him. Now, when we got back together, I won't let him go.

- Will you tell him?

- Should I?

I didn't know how to answer because I was in the same shitty situation, lying to Nhu.

- What about the evidence? Do we have enough to lock him up? - Max smoothly changed the topic, moving on to our matter.

- We have enough to finish what we started.

- Zee, I'm truly sorry for the incident in Kilen.

- I should be the one to apologize. I messed up, and I know it. We were supposed to do it on another day.

- What the hell got into you?!

- Maybe emotions.

- Maybe NuNew?

- Yes, that's true. NuNew wasn't part of the plan.

- Will you finally tell me what happened? We're both in this together, so we both need to know the whole truth.

- We had an argument and I came up with a brilliant idea to let off steam and at the same time try to find new evidence.

- Do you still think that your idea was so good? Maan I don't think so.

- Ok, you're right. This idea wasn't well thought out, but thanks to it, the matter gained momentum. We've made progress and soon we should be able to close the investigation. I made a mistake but I don't regret it. My foolishness was very helpful here. Otherwise, who knows how much longer we would have to wait.

- You're really lucky that Nhu went for you and took you home from that place.

- If not NuNew, then you would have been the one to save me.

- Only a genius like you would enter the heart of hell alone without a phone. Idiot! You are a complete imbecile!

- I know that you would have found me.

- That day, I called you several times. You didn't answer, so I immediately tracked the NuNew phone's location. When I realized that the kid was in that damn club, I sent three cars filled with my people to Kilen. Once they arrived at the location, they called to inform me that neither you nor Nhu were there anymore. You don't even realize how afraid I was of you at that time...

- I'm sorry.

- Shh! - He covered my mouth with his hand.

- Did you hear that? - Max whispered in my ear while pointing into the bushes. It's possible that a kitten might have sneaked in there, but due to our profession, we have learned to be very cautious.

- I'll send a message to Nhu that we are waiting for them by the pool with pizza. Max, please order a pizza for delivery, but I'm begging you, don't order "Hawaiian" because NuNew will kill me if I give him something to eat that he hates.

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TO BE CONTINUED ♡