Chapter 70

The rest of the night with the Lobo family was uneventful. Charles and Gracia had booked for the Lobo's to stay at Constellations Resort, and it just so happened that Tony Tamano was also booked to stay there, so Cedric and Adrianna took all of them to the hotel.

"I wonder why they call Constellations Resort, a resort when it's really more of a hotel?" Tony Tamano thought out loud. He was in the same vehicle as Cedric, Adrianna, and Adrianna's grandparents on the Lobo side.

"Well, according to rumors the owner hates the city and wants to live in a beach resort for the rest of his life. So he called his hotels, resorts." Adrianna recounted a rumor Natasha once told her.

Cedric who was driving wanted to laugh. The only reason the hotels were called resorts were because they were never meant to be built in the city. He had planned for them to stay in the vacation hotspots of the country. One day he was given the opportunity to buy a good lot at the center of the city for an acceptable price. He bought it and built the first Constellation Resort in a non beach area. There was no deep, hidden story, just a coincidence.

When they got to Constellations, Adrianna helped her grandparents to their rooms. Cedric was left at the lobby with Tony Tamano.

"Do you smoke?" Tony asked Cedric.

"Rarely. Only when I'm stressed." Cedric told Tony.

"Neither do I. Do you wanna grab a bottle at the bar while waiting for Adrianna?" Tony offered.

"Sure, why not." Cedric nodded.

They were sitting silently and awkwardly at the bar, Tony was the first to break the silence.

"Look, I think, I may have gotten off on the wrong foot with both you and Adrianna." Tony said.

"Hmmm?" Was all Cedric could say in response. People like Tony never said things like that to people like him.

"It seems the Lobo family wants me to have an affair with Adrianna." Tony shyly said.

Cedric laughed and said. "Everyone in her family wants her to have a relationship with what they call a better man. You don't need to explain."

"I had tickets, two extra tickets to a yacht tour of the city, I wanted to ask you and her to accompany me, but Adrianna thought I was asking her out on a date." Tony laughed.

"You're not a bad guy Tony." Cedric laughed.

"Can you keep a secret Cedric?" Tony asked.

"We just met, and you are going to tell me a secret?" Cedric looked at him.

Tony just shrugged.

"Alright. What is it?" Cedric asked.

"I didn't want to go to the capital with the Lobo family. My dad forced me." Tony said with a sigh. "I got lucky that Mr. Raymund didn't call me out earlier in front of everyone. I panicked and almost ruined our whole working relationship with him." Tony laughed.

"Then why do you spend time with the Lobo family?" Cedric asked.

"Their family and mine go way back. My family needs them for permits and other things related to the government back in our province, they need us to keep the economy afloat. Even with Island's Inc. in our province mining is still one of the biggest economic contributors in the province. You don't cut ties like those that easily." Tony explained.

"Well even here in the capital those kinds of relationships exist." Cedric thought about him and his friends. Their families depended on each other, luckily they were real friends.

"You mean the five princes right?" Tony asked. Cedric simply nodded in reply.

"I depend on the Laurence's. So I guess you could say I'm part of that ecosystem of power. So are the Lobo's and the Hernandez's. They just don't see it as clearly as we do I guess. The Lobo's need me and the Herndandez' need the Lobo's and vice versa. But we all depend on one of the five families. Island's Inc. needs the malls and bulk orders of Reyes Group, I need the orders of Lau Jewelry. If the Laurence's tell me to jump, I have to jump. Without them I won't have any profit, without me they can just go to a new supplier." Tony said, analyzing the importance of the five princes to their lives.

"You're a lucky man Cedric, you have an incredibly beautiful and loyal wife. I'm just sad that she's already married." Tony teased.

"You're eight years too late." Cedric laughed.

"What are you guys laughing about? Since when did you start getting along?" Adrianna who had just come down was puzzled with the two men getting along well. Usually people from her social status looked down on Cedric. It seemed Tony Tamano was actually different.

"I was just telling Tony how we would be happy to accompany him on his yacht tour." Cedric said as he interlocked his fingers with Adrianna's and lifted them to his lips to kiss.

"He told you about that?" Adrianna was even more surprised that Cedric had agreed to go.

"Of course. It's the three of us. So no harm there." Cedric explained to his wife.

"We'll go ahead Tony. Just tell us when the yacht tour will be and we'll meet you there." Cedric and Adrianna bid Tony goodbye and left the hotel.

Tony smiled at the retreating couple. All he could think about was how pretty Adrianna was, it was such a shame that she was married.