The door opened and a very attractive man with blonde hair stood in the open doorway and appeared to be talking to someone.
"Cee, how do I convince you to leave with me? come and let me treat you well, I know that Caden does not appreciate you enough." He said followed by an inaudible chatter from the other side.
The man held his chest and grimaced in mock pain. "You wound me CeCe but I will keep fighting until you give me a chance." He said with doe eyes and entered the office before shutting it and turning to look at Caden who was sitting at his desk and staring at his antics.
"Jasper, I do wish you would stop flirting with my assistant." Caden said begrudgingly while the man grinned and pulled out a seat and settled in it.
"What fun would that be?" he asked cheekily making Caden shake his head.
The teasing look cleared off his face and he sat up and stared at Caden.
"How have you been dealing with the scandal?" he asked.
"I am not bothered by it, people tend to obsess over the salacious details of people's private matters, I have come to expect it." He said with a shrug.
"I figure you need me here so that we can find you a new bride and my friend, you could not have made a better choice, I will make it my mission to find you the fairest maiden in all the lands." He said solemnly.
"I don't need a new bride, I already have my bride." Caden said and Jasper tilted his head and looked at him in surprise.
"You got a replacement already? You dog." He said with a grin.
"There is no replacement, I sticking to my decision to marry Nova Addison."
Jasper sat still, the wheels in his head turning then his eyes widened and he guffawed.
"How is your mother taking it?" he asked.
"She has rejected my choice and has gone on to ensure that I will not find a single person who will marry me in the state and that is why I need your help." Caden explained making Jasper burst into uproarious laughter.
When he was done laughing and he was wiping his tears Caden said drily. "I am glad to see that my situation amuses you, now will you help me or not?"
"Of course I will help, bear in mind that I am not a justice of peace. Now tell me what you need." Jasper said when he settled down, wondering what his friend could need from him.
"I need your jet, I can't take my family's because they will be suspicious and probably stop me from being able to travel… why are you staring at me that way?" Caden asked when he realized that Jasper was staring at him as if he had grown an extra head.
"Yyou.. you are going to travel?" An extremely shocked Jasper asked.
"I see no other way to get married than to leave this state and find someone who will marry us." He said.
"But you do not travel, you never travel." Jasper resorted as he kept staring at his friend.
"That is right but the situation is dire and this is the only way."
Jasper nodded wordlessly as he was struck speechless by Caden's revelation. He thought of all the times that he had tried to persuade Caden to come on a trip and his answer was always that he could see it all thanks to Virtual Reality so what was the point of making a trip and going on a plane which had a 0.00001 of crashing which meant that it could happen and now he wanted to get on a plane to marry a girl that everyone was opposing.
"Why her?" Jasper asked and Caden looked contemplatively.
He thought of how annoying Nova had been when he had first met her and had not known that she had been the woman he had chosen to marry. Some whimsical people would probably attribute it to fate but he knew that the probability of running into someone like who ran in the same circles that his family did was high, that was all it was.
"I gave her my word and her file was the lucky number." Caden said simply. What he did not include was that he also found Nova's green eyes arresting, he wanted to stare into their depths endlessly.
"So where will you go and when do you want to go?" Jasper asked.
"The earliest possible time and I want to go to Las Vegas, we will go and be back by morning after we find a chapel to service our needs." He explained.
"Why would you do that?" a disappointed Jasper asked and looked at his clueless friend in frustration.
"Don't you know that she is going to be looking for a honeymoon and it would do her good to get away from all of this, I am sure that she has been hounded all over social media." He continued.
"You think so?" Caden asked.
"I know so! Happy wife Happy home." He said knowledgably and leaned back confidently in his seat while Caden frowned.
"How would you know, you have never been married." Caden accused and Jasper shrugged.
"I have a lot more experience with women than you do though and you should listen to me If you want to have a happy marriage."
"I would just like for the marriage to be done with so that I can get back to work." Caden said nonchalantly.
"I can get the Jet prepared for you in two days, will that be okay?" Jasper asked and Caden nodded.
"You must keep it all confidential." Caden warned.
"Of course I will, even though I look forward to seeing your mother's reaction after she finds out that you got married even after she said no." Jasper said as his eyes lit up in mischief.
"So, what is the reason they gave for leaking those pictures right now, someone must have it in for her." Jasper asked.
"I don't know who leaked the pictures and why they did it." Caden said, his attention on the laptop in front of him as he had already gotten what he needed from Jasper.
"Why don't you know?" Jasper asked.
"Because I have no interest in finding out who did, why should I care?"
"Because she is going to be your wife and you cannot allow people to think that she is without your protection and that includes your family, anything that happens to her reflects on you. You have to find who leaked those pictures to the media and deal with them."
Caden looked at Jasper and remembered how unhappy Nova had looked, her eyes had been puffy and she was not spitting fire like she had every other time he had met and realized that was Jasper was probably right, he remembered his father telling him about how protecting his wife was the duty of the husband.
If this was right then he would have to not only deal with whoever had leaked those pictures but also the people who had been responsible for the leak, maybe Nova would like him a little more for that.