“You had someone trying to f*****g kill you and you hid it from me?!” Max hissed, scowling as he crouched in front of Alec and gently hit him on the leg.
“We didn’t want to worry you,” Alec replied.
“Them coming home to tell me you died, didn’t worry me?”
“I’m sorry,” he rasped. “We never meant for it to happen so quickly.”
Max paused for a second. “But it was meant to happen?”
“That’s not what I meant, Max.”
Max ignored him. “When?”
“We thought we had more time, I’m so sorry Max. We wanted to tell you but we didn’t know if we could keep you safe.”
“I thought you were dead!” Max yelled, finally looking up at Alec with tears in his eyes. “I thought you were dead, Alec. You kissed me, and then you went and killed yourself, and they were all coping, and I wasn’t. I hated it. I hated b
