Husband With Benefits
Chapter 193: Accusations

Chapter 193: Accusations

"Is this your doing?" Elijah Frost stormed into the office. Wild strands of silver hair clung to his furrowed forehead, and his normally steady hands trembled with a mix of panic and anger. His piercing gaze bore into his grandson, accusing eyes ablaze with a turbulent mix of disappointment and suspicion.

Erasmi looked up at the old man and clenched his hands. Ever since waking up and discovering the truth, the one man he had avoided had been his grandfather. It had been a bitter pill to swallow. His own" grandfather had held him as a hostage for all these years, manipulating and threatening his brother. The old man whom he had always looked up to had used him as nothing but a disposable weapon. He’d even been willing let him die and had signed off on it.

A little voice inside him spoke that he should forgive the old man for not fighting for him. After all, he’d been as good as dead. But the other things that Elijah Frost had done to him and to his brother had been unforgivable. He knew that seeing the old man would trigger him and so he pretended that the old man did not exist.

And yet now that he was here, he felt... empty. The old man he remembered had been larger that life while this one was frail and old. It made him realize that no matter how angry he was at the old man, he would not be able to exact his revenge.

While Erasmi was lost in his thoughts, the old man yelled loudly," Tell me, did you do this? How can you be so cruel? How could you do this to your own brother?"

Erasmi breathed in deeply and composed himself before answering coldly," I do not know what you are accusing me of, Mr. Frost. Would you like to clarify? If this is about me pretending to be Demetri, then it is only for a few days while he is busy."

"Ha! When he returns? You do not want him to return. It is why you have done this!"

"Are you going to keep spouting nonsense or tell me what it is I have done?" Erasmi almost shouted.

The air crackled with tension as the room became a battlefield for unspoken accusations.

"You killed Demetri!" Elijah Frost’s voice resounded in the room like thunder.

Erasmi’s world seemed to come to a standstill as he wondered if he had somehow slipped into some kind of a hallucination.

Standing up, he strode around the desk and asked coldly," What did you say?"

For the first time, the old man felt a tinge of fear. He had long been used to speaking what came to his mind with the boys. While they’s sometimes rebelled or even ignored him and argued but what he saw in Erasmi scared him into wanting to retreat.

Only fear for Demetri kept him from moving away his wheelchair and all the anger seemed to leave him as he slowly handed his phone to Erasmi, letting him see what he had just received...

Erasmi’s gaze fell upon the screen, and the world shifted beneath him. His hands trembled as he took the phone from his grandfather.

In the photos, security guards lay motionless, their lifeless forms a testament to the violence that had erupted. Bloodstains adorned the once pristine deck and a few masked guards seemed to be lying, dead in a crossfire. The entire deck seemed to have been painted red.

The pantry below had also been painted red and he could see footprints and marks of someone having been dragged out of there forcefully. Erasmi’s fingers clenched around the phone as he continued to scroll, each image chiselling away at his emotional armour.

Elijah Frost saw the reaction and haved a deep breath. He had actually believed that it was Erasmi who had done this thirsting for revenge. But seeing him now, he was thankful that even though his grandson hated him, his love for his brother was intact.

In a broken voice, he spoke, "The security team received an alert about an hour ago. They immediately dispatched the guards, believing that the ones on board would be able to handle until they reached. However, whoever it was who did that was well prepared. It took them barely thirty minutes to wreak this havoc and disappear."

"Demetri and Nora were onboard?"

Elijah Frost hesitated but then decided to tell the truth," They were both on board. A guard who was alive when re-enforcement reached said that the people who attacked took Nora away, but they left Demetri because..."

"Because?"

"Demetri had been shot. And they seemed to not be worried about hurting him. The guard said their target was the girl and they were only interested in taking her away safely. But when the reinforcements reached the pantry, they could not find Demetri. The guard was injured and does not know if they did anything to Demetri or not."

Erasmi sucked in a sharp breath. He needed to go to Demetri. Just then Ian and Sebastian also rushed in, their eyes wild with fear and worry. "Erasmi..."

Erasmi sucked in a sharp breath as words of denial came to his lips," I did not attack Demetri."

Ian and Seb both paused and frowned in the middle of what they had been about to say.

They then paused and glanced between the two men and exchanged looks. With a deep breath, Ian spoke, " We already know you’ve not done anything. I came to tell you that we’ve already ordered the plane to be readied. Let’s go."

Erasmi gave a gratified glance to his brothers before nodding with a firm look and marching out of the office," Let’s go. We need to find Nora and Demetri before...We need to find them."

Elijah Frost watched his three grandsons leave the office and bowed his head in a prayer as tears came to his eyes. Whether they were tears of regret or fear, no one would know.

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