Chapter 304 - 296. Regret
Just as Bassena finally managed to gather a willingness to move and left the rarely adorably clingy Zein behind, the front door beeped open and they saw the nanny come inside.
"Oh, you haven’t departed?"
"How could I leave a sick man alone?" Bassena pursed his lips, as if feeling offended by the notion of someone thinking he could be that uncaring.
"Don’t exaggerate," Nayla rolled her eyes. "I know you’re already late, so just go now."
Bassena, who had hardened his heart a minute ago, looked at the guide again and felt his heart wavering. "Just go," Zein chuckled. If the show is late, you’ll just be going home late."
Sighing, Bassena lowered his head and kissed the guide briefly, before turning to look at his nanny. Which would become Zein’s nanny today. "Take care of him well, okay? Don’t let him do any work today."
Zein rolled his eyes. Despite what he promised earlier? Was he so bad at taking care of himself that even his boyfriend continued to doubt him?
"If I can handle you, I can handle everyone," Nayla waved her hand and scoffed at the esper. No matter how old Bassena was, and how powerful he was now, he was still but a boy in his nanny’s eyes.
"Ugh--fine, fine," Bassena begrudgingly trudging into the garage as Zein bid him goodbye in a peal of fond laughter.
Zein watched Bassena go as the nanny started to clean the dishes and take out the groceries she brought to the kitchen island. "Is there anything you want to eat, Mister Zein?"
"Zein," the guide corrected, and Nayla smiled subtly at the stubbornness of this man refusing to be called with an honorific, despite the fact of him being the head of House Ishtera already spreading wide. Zein ate the peach that Bassena prepared for him while contemplating his lunch menu. "Something with meat...I think."