Chapter 200: A good meal can fix almost anything
Andrew was grateful that he had taken his full wallet today. He had his phone, his wallet, and that was pretty much it.
He didn’t feel comfortable going back to Maxwell’s home, their home, or his own apartment. He just...he knew that Maxwell probably needed some space, and Andrew needed it too.
He was hurt. He was very, very hurt by what Maxwell had implied. Andrew had a hard time accepting that he was an alpha. He’d been very vulnerable with Maxwell about it. He’d cried about it in front of him. He hadn’t fully gone into what his father had done, but Maxwell was a smart man.
He was able to infer what kind of man he was, and had been angry at the things that Andrew had told him about. Andrew wasn’t an idiot either.
He grew up with a single, omega Mom. Someone who had been marked, but no alpha was around to help her raise her kid. Plus, Andrew didn’t really look like his Mom. His skin had been darker, he didn’t have the same eye colour, he knew what kind of looks they got. But he hadn’t cared, because she was his Mom.
She had the scars to prove it, and he’d gotten her hair. It was by some genetic miracle, but it was something he was proud of.
Andrew was shattered, even if it was for a moment, that Maxwell considered Andrew like the others. The ones that Andrew had grown up around. The alphas that treated omegas like they were less than, worth less, and were meant to be dominated and owned. They had disgusted Andrew as a beta, and the proud son of an omega Mom. Andrew had fought many of them, verbally and physically.
So for Maxwell to say that to him, after pushing so hard for Andrew to accept himself...
Andrew sobbed, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to crouch down, bury his face into his hands, and cried.
He was shocked. He was hurt, and he didn’t know what to do. What if Maxwell thought that Andrew was like them? What if Maxwell got it into his head that Andrew was going to turn into those fuckers, and that was that?
They had discussed getting married and buying a place together just fucking yesterday! Was Maxwell going to yank everything away from him, including his feelings? Was Maxwell going to give up before they even really began?