Husband With Benefits
Chapter 74: Leave

Chapter 74: Leave

In a small apartment, not far from the University, the room was a chaotic mess. Clothes were strewn about haphazardly, mingling with empty beer bottles that lay like fallen soldiers on the battlefield of their night. The curtains were drawn shut, allowing only slivers of weak, grey daylight to infiltrate the room. In the midst of this disarray, two figures moved with urgency.

"Brother? What are you doing? Why are you throwing my things in that bag?"

the man continued to pack the bag while the younger brother tried to protest.

Clothes were tossed unceremoniously into the open suitcase each movement swift and decisive.

The younger man shrouded in black from head to toe, still wore a hood that concealed his face, watched his older brother’s actions with a mixture of anger and frustration. He reached out to stop his brother, his voice strained with emotion. "I won’t do this, Alex. I want her. You promised me I could have her," he protested, his voice trembling with defiance.

Alex paused for a moment but didn’t meet his brother’s gaze. Instead, he continued to pack, his jaw clenched in determination. "It’s not up for discussion," he replied firmly, his tone leaving no room for argument. "It’s not safe for you here anymore. I warned you previously. You need to stop getting obsessed! Last year too, you lost your mind and look what had happened! That girl committed suicide and I was left to clean up your mess! And this time... you saw who that girl was with, kiddo. The girl has already seen my face even if she has not seen yours. And do you think that this pathetic excuse for a hood can hide you from that Demon?"

"I promised mother that I would always protect you but how can I do that if you keep getting into trouble."

The young man stepped closer, his eyes pleading with his brother beneath the hood. "I’m not leaving the country, Alex. No matter how much you try to force me. I love her and she loves me. That Demon is the one who came between us. That is why she must have been scared. She would have been worried about me. That the Demon would hurt me. It is why she ran away from me, to protect me. Don’t you remember how I told you that she had specially come to inform me about breaking up with that previous boyfriend of hers?" His voice wavered as he said this but Alex could see the absolute trust in his younger brother’s voice, making him worry even more.

The boy had been hanging onto his sanity by a thread, but he seems to have lost now that as well, after meeting Nora Williams. Alex rued the day the girl had come into his younger brother’s life and felt hatred consume him. Why did that woman have to flirt with him in the first place?

Alex sighed with a mixture of frustration and worry as he placed his hand on his brother’s shoulder, "You do not understand kid. You saw everything that happened in that building. It is only a matter of time before they find out who we are. We have to disappear before they come after us."

The young man’s grip on his brother’s arm tightened, his voice desperate. "I don’t care about the Frosts or any of this. I can’t leave without her."

Alex’s patience wore thin, and he grabbed Max by the collar of his hoodie, pulling him closer until their faces were inches apart. "You’ve already ruined me," he hissed, his eyes burning with a mix of anger and sorrow. "But if you want to ruin yourself, then there’s nothing I can do to help you." Dam* it! He had worked hard to secure this job for himself while raising his little brother.

And everything was now down the drain because of the girl and his brother’s obsession over her. Faintly, he had recognized that his brother might need a psychiatrist, but he’d not wanted to believe that his only blood relative might be confined to an institute. But now, he could feel regret pinching at him. At least if he had been institutionalized, they would not have been fearing for their lives.

With a forceful shove, Alex pushed away his brother and then proceeded to shut the suitcase forcefully, the sound of the zipper closing serving as a grim finality to their argument.

The boy slumped back against the wall, defeated and deflated. He knew his brother was right, but his heart ached with the unbearable weight of longing. "I’ll only leave if she comes with us," he mumbled, more to himself than to Alex.

Alex turned away, his face a mask of frustration as he moved to gather their savings from a hidden compartment in the room. "You’re being foolish, kid. We need to be at the train station in an hour if we want to escape swiftly. Kid, only if you escape can you come back for her." Alex reminded finally, hoping that this would help him convince his brother.

The young boy nodded in agreement with his brother and turned to look down at his phone, where a picture of Nora smiled back at him. As his brother left, tears escaped the young boy’s eyes and he hugged the phone to his chest. "My Nora. How much are you going to suffer before you can actually be with me? Don’t worry, even if I have to leave now, I am going to make sure that you stay safe for me till I am strong enough to return and save you from that demon who has you in his clutches."

With shaky hands and a blurry vision, the boy made a phone call. The call was answered immediately as a quivering voice questioned, "Did you succeed in bringing your love to you?"

The young boy started to cry in earnest at this question and explained how his brother had become an obstruction in his path to love. What the young boy failed to understand was that the other party had become quiet when they heard of his failure...

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