Chapter 144: Wait, you aren’t...gay?
Silence continued for only a few moments before Amir’s grandmother cleared his throat. Andrew, out of curiousity, raised his gaze. Amir’s grandmother met it, his brown gaze muddled with confusion.
"You were dating a woman, Andy?" Amir’s grandmother asked and Andrew blinked. He didn’t know why he was asking this question. He thought that was made pretty clear.
"Uh, yeah. I’ve dated...pretty much anyone." Andrew said and Maxwell froze. Amir’s grandmother seemed surprised.
"Huh. I thought you would have only been interested in men, but I guess I was wrong. I misjudged you." Andrew didn’t know why that was the biggest concern here, but he didn’t question it. He did question if that was an insult or not. Was it a bad thing that he’d dated women?
"Is that a problem?" Andrew asked, genuinely interested and he sighed, shaking his head.
"No no, nothing like that. I just...hmm, I guess it was wrong of me to make an assumption. You...manifested recently, correct?" Andrew nodded in confirmation. "Did all of your partners know you were a beta beforehand?" Andrew nodded again.
"I honestly..." Andrew trailed off, glancing at Maxwell, unsure if he should speak. Maxwell had a grim look on his face, but when he met Andrew’s gaze, he nodded.
"Go on. I’m not going to be mad." Andrew didn’t believe that for a second, but also knew that if he held his tongue, it could be worse. Maxwell didn’t like it when Andrew stopped speaking like this, especially if he was worried it would make Maxwell uncomfortable.
Andrew reached for his napkin, placing it in his lap so he had something to fiddle with as he spoke.
"Well," Andrew began, sighing heavily. "I felt like a pit stop for many people. I wasn’t an alpha, but I looked like one, and I didn’t react to pheromones. I was a good middle ground. You could say...people used me to ’test the waters’." Will nearly spewed his coffee everywhere.
"So you were-" Andrew smiled at him.