Husband With Benefits
Chapter 138: The Picture On The Phone

Chapter 138: The Picture On The Phone

Gabe, Ian, Seb and Lucien sat silently in the conference room as they tried to figure out what to do next. As if by mutual agreement, all of them had driven off in a daze from the medical facility and driven here. On the one hand, they wanted to storm into their grandfather’s home and question the old man about his decision to declare a living man as dead.

However, all of them had seen the vegetative state Erasmi was in. Wouldn’t he have been better off dead? Another thing that burned their mind was the most recent fight, Demetri had with their grandfather, to wrestle Erasmi’s medical power of attorney from their grandfather. With Demetri’s decision to release more public shares, all of them had indeed wondered, if only for a moment, whether Demetri was doing all this to protect his wife. But this...

Lucien cleared his throat and asked the questions that had been hammering at each of them since they made the startling discovery," Demon said that as of now Erasmi’s brain function is perfectly normal. But then, why is he not showing any reactions? Did he not ask us all here to induce a reaction from Erasmi? However, I doubt that Erasmi even recognized us. I mean I understand him not recognizing me but the rest of you..."

It was Gabe who quietly spoke," But he did have a reaction, Lucy. None of you noticed because it was negligible... Erasmi’s fingers clenched thrice. First when I held his hand and he recognized us. I thought I was mistaken in my excitement but he repeated the motion two more times after that as if he wanted to add something. The second time was when Demetri mentioned the car accident. When that happened, I started to observe Erasmi. I could feel the rage in his eyes at the mention of the accident as well as the helplessness. The emotion disappeared when Demetri talked about the other person’s death. The third time was when Lucy questioned Demetri if Nora knew about this."

That made Ian frown. Why would Erasmi know Nora? As he thought this through, Ian came to a disturbing and chilling realization. A picture that he had seen in his grandfather’s study a little while ago...

Hurriedly, he started to look through his phone’s photo gallery, looking for that thing. At that time he’e been in a hurry when the small picture had fallen out of the book in the library. When he had seen Demetri’s picture, he had been surprised but because of the lack of time, he had simply clicked the picture and then totally forgotten about it. After all, other than Demetri looking younger, it was a normal picture with Nora...

Finally, he found the picture and stared at it, making sure he was not mistaken. Zooming in, he showed it to others," I found this picture in Grandfather’s study a while ago. Do you think this is Demetri or Erasmi?"

Gabe and Seb both leaned closer to the picture, frowning. Because they had long become used to seeing only Demetri, they had almost forgotten how to differentiate between the two identical twins.

It was Seb who finally spoke," This is Demetri...I think"

But Gabe shook his head and pointed out," No. This is Erasmi. Erasmi was right-handed while Demon is left-handed. It is why Demon wears his watch on the... right hand...but this person is wearing a watch on the left. Ian, where did you get this picture? It should be around the time of the accident. Who is in the picture with him?" Since it was clear that someone else was there in the picture, Gabe looked at Ian curiously.

Ian felt his stomach clench. It was indeed Erasmi. With a dreadful feeling in his stomach, Ian moved the picture so that the zoomed-in picture of the woman could be seen. He hoped that they would be able to give a reasonable or logical explanation but

Seb: "F*ck! What the heck is this?"

Gabe: "This... Ian, are you sure this is not photoshopped? It was in grandfather’s office after all."

Lucien: "Why is Nora in that picture?"

And just then Lucien came to the same conclusion that the others had come to... The woman in the picture was Erasmi’s girlfriend who looked a lot like Nora. The woman’s features were sharper and a bit different, but they resembled Nora to a great degree.

It was Seb who tried to think of a way out," Maybe it is a coincidence..."

Ian shook his head and added," I don’t think so. There are too many coincidences... for me to believe this. Do you think Demetri never met Erasmi’s girlfriend? That he would not have noticed the resemblance?"

Gabe nodded," Demon said that Erasmi has only recently started reacting. The last fight that Demon and Erasmi had before the accident had been about Erasmi’s girlfriend. And then the accident happened. In the accident, Erasmi’s girlfriend passed away and Erasmi never recovered."

Ian nodded and continued where Gabe left off," And then after so many years, Demetri suddenly marries a woman who looks almost exactly like Erasmi’s dead girlfriend. And no one knows how Demetri even met Nora..."

"You mean Demetri purposely found Nora to use her to cure Erasmi? That sounds even more far-fetched." Seb pointed out.

But it was Lucien who spoke the bitter truth," However it is more likely. Erasmi has started to respond recently. And that response is most probably because of Nora’s resemblance."

Gabe rubbed a hand over his face. He’d wanted to discuss his own plan to handle Arabella so that he would be able to take her from here but instead Demetri had thrown this smoke bomb at them.

"What is Demetri planning to do with the woman who tried to kill Nora? Have they found her?" Gabe questioned Ian.

Ian shook his head and answered," There is something weird going on over there. Demetri has shut me away from that suddenly and has ordered everyone to not tell any of us anything."

Everything was way too messy for their comfort...

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