Dolce - Part Nine Alternate Scene

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For my rewritten and missing scenes meme for the 900 followers celebration, an anon asked for a scene in Dolce. They asked the Lily actually out Felix. After consulting with co-writer we decided this was what would happen next.

 

Dolce - Chapter Nine (Alternate Scene)

“Look, she accused me of being an escort. She doesn’t know she’s right for sure, but whether I am or not is beside the…”

Felix found himself cut off by the loud, horrified gasp in the other room. No. No this was not happening now, it was not happening like this. He had this amazing plan to use the paranoid bitch’s own discovery against her. She couldn’t be playing that damn card now. And yet there was Locus, catching up his hand, pulling him back to the dining room area. That stupid bitch. ]

“He’s what?” Joyce demanded as Felix found himself pulled to a stop near the table, all eyes on them.

“An escort. A high priced call boy,” Lily declared and it was all Felix could do to not bite through his lip.

“Is this true?”

Felix felt the hand in his squeeze comfortingly, and like that, his cool came back to him. He pulled his hand from Locus’s and he smiled charmingly from the table.

“Of course,” Felix answered, and he felt the whole room, Locus included, go tense. God this was going to be god. He put on his best sarcastic yet annoyed voice, put a fist to his hip, and waved his hand dismissively at Lily. “Clearly I’m an escort.”

He moved forward to Joyce’s side, bowing and offering a hand. “Please, allow me to escort you to the guest house this evening. I assure you I know the way there quite well.”

Already Felix could hear the giggling, so he moved further down the table to one of the other women present and smiled as she looked up at him.

“My dear, may I have the honor of escorting you to the next dinner Locus and I attend? I think I’d look better on your arm than his. And he’s already bought me so many gifts. I don’t know what to do with myself.”

Everyone was giggling now, except for Lily, who was visibly fuming when Felix glanced at her from the corner of his eyes.

Well, her and Locus, but that man was hard to amuse.

“My friend said he hired you to go to dinner with him, a ‘boyfriend experience’ or something!” Lily protested loudly, and Felix pulled away from the woman at the table, turning to look at Locus in askance. All he had to do was put on a hurt look and seem like he was the wronged party, and it was so easy to bring them all to his side.

“I confess, Locus. Of that I’m guilty. My cousin Jackson lives in town and he wanted to go to dinner with him and his boyfriend. The guy was a bit… distant, so that worried me a bit,” Felix said thoughtfully. He had to find out which of the assholes that had hired from Dolce and have the idiot blacklisted for voiding a contract.

“You told me,” Locus answered softly. “I looked into the man. He was attempting to use your cousin as a, I believe the term is ‘sugar daddy.’ I convinced him it was a poor idea.”

“But… But… the first time you came to a party for us with Felix, I heard Felix came in a separate car. A limo,” Lily quickly tried to defend her claim. Stupid girl just kept trying to beat a master at this art, but he wasn’t afraid of winning this one to be honest.

“I was at the office until just before the party,” Locus offered, stepping forward before Felix even had a chance to set up a lie. “Since I was unable to pick Felix up myself, I sent a car. In fact, more often than not I send a car because our work schedules are quite different on nights we don’t set aside for ourselves. Besides, if Felix came to a party in his own car you’d clearly make a fuss out of that, seeing as he’s not as wealthy as either of us and I saw no need to bestow a car upon a boyfriend.”

Felix had to bite the inside of his lip to keep from laughing at the scene. The way Lily’s fists, clenched at her sides, shook with her fury, was precious. This was a memory he’d keep with him forever. Wonderful.

“Lily, your unseemly behavior is just…” Joyce shook her head disapprovingly. “Sit down and be quiet!”

God Felix wished he could gloat. But the way his ‘husband’ caught him up in his strong arms and kissed him lightly… Well, that could be a prize all its own.