Husband With Benefits
Chapter 180: Brothers

Chapter 180: Brothers

"I thought you were staying there a few more days..." Demetri looked up from his scattered papers as his identical twin, Erasmi, barged into the small office unceremoniously.

Erasmi shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and answered with a casual grin, "Well, I had something to do. Now it’s done, so I’m back. Don’t worry. I won’t be staying here for long. I think I am going to go on a world tour by bicycling around the world. The truth is, I’m already tired of Ian and Seb whining. How did you even raise them? They whine more than abandoned dogs and gossip more than old ladies! Also, how do they have eyes all over the city? I can’t meet a single person- man or woman without them discussing it in that phone group! Can’t you give them some work so that they would stop chattering away like magpies?"

Demetri chuckled at Erasmi’s remarks but said," We are all the same and you know it. Given a chance, you would not let them have it easy also, E. So, no use complaining. Just remind them they will someday be on the other end of the stick."

Erasmi rolled his eyes before turning silent as he looked around Demetri’s office. Demon had already offered to divide the upper floor into two parts so that Erasmi could have him own office but after living inside a room for a decade of his life, he had no desire to be stuck between these four walls.

Where there should be anger and envy that Demetri stood in the place that rightfully belonged to him, he was actually thankful to him. If Demetri had not handled everything back then, it would have been impossible for him to survive in this new world.

"So, now you trust my judgement?" Demetri asked casually, letting his brother know that he was well aware of Erasmi’s motives.

Erasmi raised his brows and leaned back in his chair as he pretended to be innocent," What are you talking about?"

Demetri stopped and put down his bed, " I am talking about the fact that you’d decided to stay behind to get to know more about Nora, make sure what her intentions were towards me..."

Erasmi grinned. "I did stay behind to do that! I should have known that you’d see right through me... Hmm. I think she is quite an honest person. So, I did not have to beat around the bush much. I asked her directly about how she felt towards you."

Demetri nodded and looked back into his file pretending to not be interested in what Erasmi had to say. But instead of continuing to tell him about this talk he had with Nora, Erasmi continued to tell him about his plans, "I think I am going to explore country A first. I’d quite like to explore the desert there and look at some kangaroo’s while I am there, have a few affairs with pretty women."

Demetri looked up from his work with a frown on his face," What is the hurry? You can spend some time here first. So, what did you discover about Nora’s intentions?"

Erasmi gave his brother a sly glance as he raised his chin and leaned back, looking down his nose at him," Nothing actually. She has no intentions towards you. I want to say that you’ve been friendzoned but you are already married... In her own words, you are her Husband... for as long as you are married and then you will go your separate ways..." Shaking his head, Erasmi taunted," My dear brother you’ve been -husband zoned..."

While Erasmi clicked his tongue, pretending to be sympathetic to his brother’s plight, inside he was dying of laughter. So his brother wanted to pretend to be unaffected, heh? That will teach him. He’d been so confident in his ability to woo his wife, that he’d even sent her to live in a different country! And now he wanted to use him to know Nora’s feelings.

Of course, he wasn’t going to tell him what she actually told him. Instead, he was going to sow some discord," It’s a new special word that I’ve created for your situation. See, you are already husband and wife but she is not in love with you. And you became her husband first and then her friend followed by becoming her lover. So... you are in the friends-with-benefits zone but will firmly remain in the friendzone...hence Husbandzone. When she is ready to find love, she will definitely look outside this zone...

Demetri almost crushed the pen in his hand as he heard Erasmi’s words. Dam* it! What did Nora say to him that the man was actually sitting here and spouting this nonsense?

What look for love outside the husband zone? What was even this zone thing? He’d already made plans for wooing Nora once he was done with making sure that she was safe and secure...

But Erasmi was not done adding vinegar to his brother’s mood..." You won’t have to wait much longer until she tells you about the love of her life also. See, before I left to come here, I met this really handsome fellow over there...He is her co-star in that theatre play that she is doing. Their on-stage chemistry is really good so I can imagine it won’t be much longer till it spills into real life..."

The air around Demetri seemed to turn into ice. It took all of his self-control for Erasmi to control his laughter. He was willing to bet everything that his brother would be on the airplane to be with Nora within the next hour...

However, what Erasmi had not expected was what Demetri would do next. Instead of rushing away mindlessly, Demetri apologized to Erasmi," E, I am sorry, my brother. I’ll definitely make it up to you... But we’ve done this in the past so we can pull this off again."

With that Demetri rushed out of the office without another word, leaving behind a perplexed Erasmi. It was only after he received a message from Ian and Gabe letting him know that they were available for assistance at all times did he realize what had happened! While he successfully goaded his brother into leaving his responsibility and running to his wife, the man had turned the table on him and now he was expected to pretend to be Demetri for... no one knew how long!

"Dam* it, Erasmi Frost! You took a shot at Demetri but ended up hurting yourself!" Erasmi muttered to himself...

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