98 Eavesdropping

-Several Days Later-

After completing more tasks with Mr. Brave, Aiden found himself on a tram with Kirishima, Uraraka, Tsuyu and Deku heading towards a destination that Mr. Brave told him to show up at.

Not wanting to be around that green haired loser, he bid his goodbyes to Kirishima and sat in another cart with his phone in his hand.

Taking out his earphones, he searched through his playlist until he found a good starting point. But just as he was about to put them in, he suddenly overheard an interesting conversation from two women in their thirties sitting opposite him.

From the looks of it, the two weren't Japanese. Besides one of them being blonde and the other having curly brown hair, their skin tone and outfits told him that they were probably just visiting. What further aided in this speculation was the fact that the two were speaking French.

Due to his background as an assassin, he was forced to learn multiple languages over the years with French being one of the easiest to master. It was also thanks to this that he understood what the two women were talking about.

"So how come you're getting divorced? I thought things were going well between you and Mark." The curly brunette asked the blonde.

"*Sigh* They were but... Do you remember the time when you had to go to Europe and ended up missing my birthday?"

The brunette nodded. "Yeah, it was only a year ago."

Hearing that, the blonde smiled weirdly.

"So it was my birthday right, a day you'd expect to be showered in love and praise. Well call me conceited but can you blame me for waking up and expecting breakfast in bed and a nice gift to go along with it? Well apparently Mark didn't get the memo because he woke and treated it like it was any other day. He said good morning to me, stretched and then left to have a shower. No I love you, no happy birthday, no nothing. He didn't even acknowledge the fact that I had just turned thirty."

"Seriously!?"

"Yeah." She nodded. "I thought he must have forgotten or was faking me out but then Cassie didn't say anything about it either and that pissed me off. To have my own fucking child not say happy birthday to me really hit me hard."

"How old was she at the time?"

"13, old enough to remember my birthday. So anyway, I went to work and you know what?"

"What?"

"None of my co-workers said happy birthday either. I had worked at that company for 6 years, celebrated and hosted a lot of their birthdays and what do I get in return? Nothing, not even a nod of the head."

"Damn."

"Yeah, but then just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse, my boss calls me into his offices and I was like fuck! But then he says happy birthday and I shit you not, I was almost brought to tears."

"What a good boss."

Ignoring the brunette, the blonde continued her story.

"To say I was shocked was an understatement, but then he invited to go have lunch with him and I was like y'know what? Fuck it! Why not. Since he was the only one who remotely seemed to care about it, going to lunch with him didn't really seem like a big deal."

"So what happened next?"

"So we went to have lunch at this really nice restaurant, and then he asked me to go back to his place."

"No!"

"Yeahhh. So I was like okay lets go. We get back to his place, really beautiful house, we go inside and then he's like, let me just step into my room for a moment. I was like Oh... Okay then. So there I am, sitting in his living room waiting for him to return. And then he came back like five minutes later or something with a cake, my coworkers, Mark and Cassie all running in screaming happy birthday at the top of their lungs... And there I was laying on his sofa naked ."

[A/n: IF SHE BREATHES!!]

"....Wow...."

"Yeah." The blonde nodded.

"So all of them...."

"Saw me laying naked on my boss's sofa with my legs spread in the air."

"I just... never expected you to do that..."

"Yeah..."

The two them then lapsed into an awkward silence while Aiden was sitting there pretending he couldn't understand them with a neutral expression on his face.

"So Mark..." The brunette began.

"He forgave me... For a while."

"Cassie?"

"Still hasn't spoken a word to me since then."

"And your coworkers?"

"They're trying to pretend nothing happened, but I catch them speaking about me behind my back."

"...What about your boss?"

"He does everything humanly possible to not stay in a room with me. Just the other day I caught him walking down 9 flights of stairs because he didn't want to ride the elevator with me."

"...So what's the plan now?"

"The plan? The plan is to somehow get custody of Cassie and since he earns more than me, hopefully I'll get some alimony as well."

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Exiting out of the tram, Aiden followed the directions given to him by Mr. Brave. The only issue was that Kirishima, Uraraka, Deku and Tsuyu all seemed to be heading in the same direction. While he didn't have any conflict with Kirishima and the two girls, just being around Deku made his stomach turn.

'Are we all heading to the same place?'

As if to answer his question, standing outside the building he was supposed to be at were Mirio, Nejire and Tamaki.

'Fuck.'

Remembering that Kirishima and the rest behind him were all affiliated with the same hero agency as the big three, Aiden couldn't help but curse as he suspected that this was going to happen.

"Aiden-san!!" Nejire jumped at him.

Sighing deeply, he shifted out of the way and nodded at Mirio before heading inside.

"He really doesn't change does he?" Uraraka smiled.

Seeing that she had grasped nothing but air, Nejire started looking around before smiling madly.

"He's really good at hid and seek!!"