Chapter 6
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Ethan Walker was lying curled up in a ball next to Alexander Hayes when he woke up.
The bed was small, the covers sparsely thrown over themselves, and the child was tugging at only one pathetic corner.
Curled up in a position where the bulge of the spine, section by section, appeared all the more clear.
The body of a teenager.
The bruised hickeys that speckled his body sent the finally awake man into a panic.
What to do.
As he hesitated, his cell phone rang with a text message alert.
"Alex, I've been thinking about this a lot these days, I'm not going to run away anymore, I want to be good with you from now on."
It was Adrian Hart, who hadn't been heard from all week.
"Alex ......"
Ethan Walker rolled over nearly falling out of bed and waking up in shock.
Every inch of his body was screaming madly with pain, especially the back one, like it was being torn apart alive.
It was something he had actually looked up from the internet.
But it took trying it to realize that it hurt this much.
"Alex ......?"
Alexander Hayes was clutching his cell phone tightly not knowing what to think when he raised an eyebrow at Ethan Walker's low call before snapping back to attention.
"Ethan, I drank too much last night."
"...... Uh-huh."
"What do you want? I can make it up to you."
Compensate, yes, what does that mean?
"I want to be with you."
"Anything else but that, do you want money, gifts? What do kids your age like?"
"I'm not a kid! I love you!"
"But I love your brother!"
After all these years of waiting for Adrian Hart's line about being together properly, Alexander Hayes almost wanted to fly to his side immediately at this point, Ethan Walker becoming the unreasonable one in his eyes at the moment instead.
"I love you."
A second text from Adrian Hart came through on his phone and Alexander Hayes' eyes tightened.
"Brother isn't even right for you! He's too scared to try anything, he doesn't deserve you!"
Alexander Hayes shook off Ethan Walker's hand that was pulling at him and quickly got dressed.
"Don't you forget, without your brother, you'd be dead already."
"So what! I hated him! Hate it ......"
Hate that he dominates you but refuses to love you properly, hate that you love him like that even though you know he's hesitant.
Alexander Hayes slammed the door angrily and left, his cold face and furrowed brow ruthless and determined.
Ethan Walker bit his lip stubbornly, tears of aggression and resentment rolling silently down his pillow, crying until he sobbed and once again physically passed out.
Adrian Hart returned home two days later, having taken a leave of absence from the police force and passed up the chance of a special training promotion.
He wanted to go straight to Alexander Hayes, but after much hesitation, he decided to go home first and tell Ethan Walker what he thought.
The boy had always been sensible and precocious, many times making people forget that he was only fifteen.
In a family with living parents, that's the age of adolescence when you're making a fool of yourself and playing hard to get with your family.
Huh? It's only eight o'clock. It was only eight o'clock. Was he going to bed that early?
Shrinking into bed, Ethan Walker's body shivered with cold, his eyelashes fluttered uneasily, his breathing was light but rapid, and his forehead was frighteningly hot.
"Ethan?You ......"
The moment the desk lamp was turned on, Adrian Hart's pupils snapped shut.
"Cold ......"
All this on him? This is ......
"Wake up, it's brother, Ethan."
Eyes opened with difficulty, and in the dim light was his brother's worried face.
"Brother, I'm sorry ......"
"Was it ...... Alex? Did he do this?"
"Brother, I really like him ...... let him to me ...... ok ......"
Because of the high fever and sore people tugging at the corner of Adrian Hart's coat, wet pair of eyes, where there is the usual certainty and confidence, like not getting a beloved toy child as poor, see Adrian Hart burst of heartache.
"Good, brother promised you."
"Your brother told you?"
Ethan Walker You are so, so unscrupulous.
"Alex, how could you ......"
"I was drunk! I don't even remember what I did!"
"But he's so young! What does he know? Could it have been his initiative?"
"Ha, he's little? He didn't take the initiative? He's been trying to poach you for a long time, do you know that? He interfered with us every time I came back to you on vacation, he sent dozens of messages a day when I was in London, even the other day when we had a fight, he confessed his love to me every day. He understands everything, he's much more tactful and calculating than you!"
Yes, that's it.
Say it to Adrian Hart and say it to yourself.
It was Ethan Walker's fault, all of it.
"You've had s*x, after all."
"I can make it up to him, any amount of money!"
"Alex! It's not about money!"
"Don't say break up ...... No break up ......"
Alexander Hayes dominated Adrian Hart, his arms wrapped around his waist in a death grip.
"It's so hard for you to say you love me ...... You finally stopped avoiding me ...... I've waited so long ...... Please... ...Adrian......don't break up......"
Brother doesn't know where to go.
So hungry.
It's too late to buy food outside, right?
Moreover, the whole person was like stepping on cotton, so light that there was no strength to go out at all.
Ethan Walker braced his aching body and found the kitchen, found rice from the refrigerator and poured it into a pot, added water, stopped his fingers trembling on the switch of the gas stove, gritted his teeth and twisted it on like his brother.
Fire.
A nightmare you can't get rid of.
Unable to look at the dancing embers, Ethan Walker ran and hid on the couch.
It'll be a while before it's ready.
No need to go over there just yet.
Don't go over ......
Don't dare go over ......
So tired ......
Adrian Hart got a call from the property and rushed back without a chance to say anything to Alexander Hayes, racing all the way down to his own house where chaos reigned as the tiny windows breathed through the blazing fire.
"Ethan!"
"Officer Trey, the fire alarm has been called, the fire department won't be here for a while."
"My brother's still up there!"
The security guards couldn't stop them at all, so Adrian Hart rushed into the smoke-filled hallway.
The door was kicked in with brute force, and it was only after careful identification that Adrian Hart found Ethan Walker hiding in a bookcase and a c***k in the corner of the wall in the midst of the fire.
The bottom of the bookcase was already burning and shaking, but he was actually expressionless except for the constant tears!
"Mommy, don't die ......"
"Ethan hurts ...... Mommy ...... hurts ......"
Raging tears stayed all over his face, Ethan Walker mumbled one after another, as if he couldn't hear or see reality, like falling into a spell.
"Ethan!"
The moment the huge floor-to-ceiling bookcase collapsed, Adrian Hart pulled Ethan Walker out of the gap, but he himself was smashed underneath by the bookcase.
When Alexander Hayes arrived, Ethan Walker was leaning against the side of the fire truck staring blankly, tears streaming frantically down his pale face.
"Where's your brother?!"
"Ethan Walker you talk where is your brother?!"
No matter how much Alexander Hayes pressed, almost shaking him, Ethan Walker never said a word.
"There's someone up there! There's got to be someone! You guys go help!"
At Alexander Hayes' insistence, the firefighters retraced their steps to the source of the fire and surprisingly did find a dying Adrian Hart under the bookcase.
With tears streaming down his face, Alexander yelled, "Adrian......I'm Alex......look at me...... "
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