Chapter 150: Overwhelmed and underestimated
The next few days were a bit chaotic. Andrew had to get ready for going back to work, Michael had to make sure he had all the information he needed to do the job that Maxwell wanted him to do, while also being stable enough to do it.
Andrew saw a lot of Mr. Beckett, whether it was through a screen or in person since he and Maxwell had to hammer out the details of Andrew’s arrival, and the project he would be working on. Andrew wasn’t kept in the dark, but he kind of liked it being a surprise.
Andrew hadn’t seen any backlash from revealing his identity, at least not yet, and in between cramming his mind with information that he needed for his new job, lessons with Michael, he was feeling better already.
He and Maxwell had had another good chat about what he’d done, and what Maxwell had done and smoothed over any issues that either one of them could have had. Both men were anxious, worried that the times that Maxwell had been creampied could have resulted in a child, but neither of them were going to hold their breath.
They were responsible adults, and Maxwell had been honest with him. Andrew wasn’t in the same state of mind he’d been in the last time this happened to him, and he found that the more he thought about Maxwell swollen with his child, it didn’t set off as many alarms as it used to.
He was still terrified to be a Dad. That made his skin crawl, but it was different because the other half of the genes would be Maxwell. That apparently made things different for him.
One thing that had changed is because he had gathered everyone’s phone numbers to send the snippet of the video to them, he was now getting messages from Maxwell’s family, and Amir’s grandparents.
It was actually quite adorable. They would send him photos of where they were, what they were doing, and any of the unrefined jewels that they had found. It was nice to have them chatting with him, and also checking in with him. He sent them photos of what he was doing, including him studying since he had a feeling they would like that.
He felt like an honourary grandson, and it was nice. He’d never had grandparents before.