chapter twelve

There was discomfort on his face, and he was no longer as brave as at the beginning, the only thing Estaban wanted at that moment was to disappear or flee from the gaze of those two dominants, however, that was something he could not do. ... She sighed finally seeing the clean and familiar face of the alpha who was next to her without dwelling too much on him.

"They are identical…"

Esteban had already seen him in the photograph accompanied by the evidence and documents delivered by Katya, but in person, it was even more surprising, perhaps because this person looked much more serious than Elio, it was that Esteban could have been a little more aware of that. They were two different beings.

He blinked and pressed his lips together under the mask, so he could look at the man again, her knitted brows and night-black eyes powerfully drawing his attention, but he did his best not to get carried away by the overwhelming sensation that these were. they produced him...

—"I'm sorry for my behavior…" —He turned to Andrew, who didn't say anything about it, which made him more nervous than he already was.

-You are OK? — Katya spoke through the haze of her thoughts.

—"Yes." — It was a lie, but that was something the other two individuals noticed and ignored.

—"I'm sorry for my behavior,"— she repeated. —"This is a bit difficult…" — She cleared her throat, putting her hands to her trembling legs.

—"We understand,"— the alpha answered after being silent for a couple of long seconds. —"So, Mr. Miller…" —This man had acted as if the above had never happened and he continued with what he really cared about despite his clear answer. — The procedure is simple and the results are almost 100%, you could be completely healthy in a year or less, you just have to accept the help we are offering you. I assure you, it's not some kind of trap, because honestly, Mr. Miller, do you really believe that our family is planning to harm you? For what reason?

Oh, Esteban could think of a couple of them…although he didn't say anything about them.

—"I know your intention is to help me… but I don't want it. He licked his lips, the pheromone dispensers were of great use, because he was sure that, by now, he would probably be succumbing to a pheromone crash with how disturbed the environment was by then.

—Esteban, let's go back to the beginning, is there nothing more you can tell us to deny us our help more than a simple "I don't want"?

Katya looked a little annoyed, Esteban began to recognize the woman again, she always seemed annoyed or disgusted with her presence in the past, as much as he tried to please her, she just looked at him as if he were a disgusting mosquito ... He wanted to suck the special blood of his handsome younger brother.

—"No, there's really no other reason…" he began to be sincere. — I don't want anything from you, I'm aware that I can die in a couple of months or even tomorrow, but I'm fine with that.

Katya dragged one of her unruly locks behind her ear in utter frustration, her elegant appearance not helping to hide the conflict the omega's words produced in her.

—"That's a pathetic answer." Andrew, however, was more direct. — Do you have any idea how many people out there are going through what you are suffering and you ask God to have an opportunity like yours?

—I don't want to be lectured by any of you, I know you think you're doing a heavenly miracle for a poor omega like me.

—We do not…

—Yes, because that is what is happening, are you really the reason why Elio left home? A pathetic man who would throw away everything he sacrificed for him.

—"Andrew…" — Katya called, but it was only the beginning.

—"I feel sorry for my dear brother who died protecting someone who didn't take the opportunity to continue living.

Not even that frustrated Esteban so much... one of the secondary symptoms of all the medication he was consuming was the indifference of which he had been severely aware for a long time, however, he must admit that the bloodied face of the man who was murdered came to light. Your mind. her lover knocked on the door of her heart making her tremble but not much more than that, she didn't feel much, so she unconsciously brought her eyes to the severe ones of the man who kept talking and talking seriously, he looked upset, maybe not, Therefore, in his eyes there was a feeling that Esteban could not fully decipher, so he just stood still watching the movements of his features while words continued to come out of his mouth that did not come to have coherence in his mind...

When he realized what was happening, he was on the ground, seeing one last time the familiar face of the love of his life...

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Stewart was one of the Coleman family's trusted physicians, the man in his fifties Six years old still seemed thirty, the age of a shape-shifter was different from that of a mere human. She sighed taking off her glasses, while Andrew and Katya waited for her to open her mouth and say something about Esteban who had collapsed on the floor after getting up suddenly.

—"We did a stomach pump..." — he began. — It seems that he took several gesunde seele * others, at this moment he is being transferred to a private room…

—"Why did he faint all of a sudden?" — Andrew questioned before the pause that Stewart took.

—"We don't know…" — She pursed her lips. — "Uhm, it's a bit complicated to explain, but we have a couple of theories, the strongest being pheromone clash."

—That can't be like that, there were dispensers in the room.

—Yes? So it's even more serious. Andrew raised an eyebrow. —"Although we don't have much to say right now, we should wait until he wakes up and gets the test results.

There wasn't much more to say about it, so both brothers just watched Stewart walk out of the room after a male nurse came looking for him.

—"That boy…he just fell on the floor and took so many pills…" —Katya commented, to which Andrew just looked at her calmly.

—"He probably ate them, so he wouldn't wag his tail as soon as he saw me." — They weren't ignorant, and it seemed like the little man wasn't obvious either that seeing a person so much like his dead partner would have a knee-jerk reaction from omega to alpha that he didn't have enough control over, so I decide not to make a fool of myself...

—"That would have been the best outcome, Andrew, that way we could have started treatment right away."

Andrew sighed, saying nothing for a few seconds, carefully analyzing what had happened a couple of hours ago. The man was paler than he had seen in the photos and his body much thinner than he remembered... it was like a fragile doll that if you squeezed it enough it could break...