Chapter 27 Reece

Audum was doing the buttons of his shirt sleeves when I knocked at his open door and he glared at me through the mirror.

"Dressing up already?" I spit as I step in his room.

"What business do you got?" He turns towards me while adjusting his collar.

"I wanted to ask about counsellor" I give a straight forward reply. "I thought you'd tell me about him yesterday only but seemingly you got busy with the 'ball' arrangements".

"It's not a necessity for you to know about those matters", he brushes it off as usual while sprinting his perfume on.

"That joke is a million years old, now can we talk the real talk, my beloved bro?" I offer.

"Close the door behind you, sir" he points in the direction of the doorway.

Door shuts and Audum takes out the signed contract papers. Much to my disbelief, I wasn't expecting a signature of that sneaky bald Doberman.

I couldn't contain myself and help myself from screaming while repeadtly checking out the signature from upclose. This is gotta be the best day in years. In years of running back and forth for saving our family's reputation.

I look up at Audum while he's fixing his watch. I know he personally doesn't care- actually doesn't give a flying fuck about Timothy Reed's reputation. He did it just because Anna told him to before breathing her last.

As he turns towards me, I hand him the contract back and hug him tightly.

He pats my back and I can't control my tears. My brother has been through so much especially after what our lovely father did recently. I hate to call him father now. I prefer Timothy just like Audum now. I never knew my father was such a shallow person. Fuck. Fuck whatever makes us do such terrible mistakes.

"Alright, alright, behave like a grown up man now" Audum releases me from his hug.

"I told you I'd get it done, you don't need to get so overly sentimental about- this little whatever it is" He unplugs his phone from the charging cable.

"Time to present before the owners of this property" He refers to mother and fa- Timothy Reed as he opens the door.

"Get ready" he tells me and I nod. He goes downstairs.

Sentimental for Timothy? Sentimental for my so-called Reece's super dad? I wanna spit. Ugh.

He literally killed the woman who truly loved him and what did she do? She gave him his life in the form of her last wish. I need to wipe these tears off. The more I think about how pathetic my father is in reality, the more it gets hard to pretend around him that I know nothing.

The only person I cry for is you, my bro. You never let our father's actions come in between our brotherhood. You never treated me like a half-sibling. You never hated on me because of both my parents. You loved me like an elder brother. I just hate that there's nothing that I could do to ease the chaos inside you. I hope you'll get the love that you deserve. There's not a better brother and person than you on this entire planet.

I need to hide this contract or else that counsellor might find it.

I also need to dress my all-over-the-place self before picking up Zeroni. That reminds me, that Noelle bunny is also coming. Should I ask Audum whether he'd pick her up or I do alongside Zeroni?