You wanted me but you didn't need me

OCTAVIAN

Was Alicia fucking her employer?

Octavian thought, was that why he gave her the grimoire?

Her phone pinged, she brought it out of a purse that had been kept behind a hidden pocket.

"Oh would you look at that?" She looked delighted. "Your Alpha really loves you."

"What do you mean?" Josh asked.

"He's giving me the grimoire, he's left it where I told him to, now I'll release you guys after I'm sure he gave it back the way he took it." She pivoted and left.

"Why would Jerome give her the grimoire!" Josh growled.

"You just heard her, he loves us enough to not want us dead, so why are you growling at me?"

"Are you ever serious?"

"Hey, don't hurt my feelings, you don't have to criticize me everytime I say something." Octavian grunted.

"That's because you never say the right thing, you never do anything right, you never do the right thing!"

"You know, I have a feeling we aren't talking about the same thing."

"You left me!" Josh snapped.

"I had to go!' Octavian snapped back.

"You didn't have to, you could have stayed with me but you choose to go." Josh said, his tone lower that it was a few moments ago.

Octavian's eyes narrowed, "you gave me a choice Josh, my life or you."

"You could have chose me, I should have been your first priority." Josh said, his voice a little higher.

"You didn't want me!" Octavian growled, "you wanted me with you but you didn't want me."

"I told you I wasn't gay." Josh looked away.

"Then what's the problem, you rejected me and I accepted it, I accepted my fate!" Octavian shouted.

"I didn't want you to leave." Josh stated, whispering as his eyes looked anywhere but at Octavian. "I wanted you with me, I hated the fact that you could be with someone else."

Octavian snorted, "Vincent wasn't gay, but he accepted his mate nevertheless."

"Vincent wasn't entirely straight, and besides, we aren't talking about Vincent." Josh shrugged, "we're talking about us."

"You know," Octavian sighed, "I'm not entirely gay, I just prefer men.

"Do you get me?"

"You just prefer fucking men over women?"

"Yeah, I can see a lady and admire her you know, even think about fucking her but never really go for it, but t I'd see man and definitely do it, do you get me?"

"Are you saying you're BI?" Josh grunted, looking confused.

"Does it have to have a label?"

"I don't know man," Josh sighed and then smirked, "I guess I really get what you're saying, I've seen the way you stare at the rich sibling."

Octavian didn't need to ask who he was talking about.

"I guess." He agreed, "but I know I'm not the only one staring."

Josh bristled, the chain rattling. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Octavian chuckled. "I guess that answered my question."

"What the fuck do you mean?." Josh managed to remain still even though his body felt tense.

"Oh, enough of the posturing, I've seen the way you've been eye fucking her."

"What the hell.....I wasn't..... I didn't....what the fuck, stop laughing you shit."

"I've never seen you so flustered, my goodness, no one's going to believe it when I tell them."

"I'm not flustered, I'm just —what the fuck are you talking about man?"

"I think she's supposed to balance us."

"Balance us how?"

"You like women, I like men and women."

"Oh, but how would that be fair to you? You said you prefer men....what? why are you looking at me like that?"

Octavian was shocked, Josh was really considering it?

"Why didn't you want to accept me?"

The way josh tensed showed that he wasn't expecting the question.

"A lot if reasons." He finally answered, "for the most part, I wasn't sure about taking it up the ass."

Octavian frowned. "Who said you had to."

The way Josh sputtered made Octavian's day.