Chapter 74: Leave
In a small apartment, not far from the University, the room was a chaotic mess. Clothes were strewn about haphazardly, mingling with empty beer bottles that lay like fallen soldiers on the battlefield of their night. The curtains were drawn shut, allowing only slivers of weak, grey daylight to infiltrate the room. In the midst of this disarray, two figures moved with urgency.
"Brother? What are you doing? Why are you throwing my things in that bag?"
the man continued to pack the bag while the younger brother tried to protest.
Clothes were tossed unceremoniously into the open suitcase each movement swift and decisive.
The younger man shrouded in black from head to toe, still wore a hood that concealed his face, watched his older brother’s actions with a mixture of anger and frustration. He reached out to stop his brother, his voice strained with emotion. "I won’t do this, Alex. I want her. You promised me I could have her," he protested, his voice trembling with defiance.
Alex paused for a moment but didn’t meet his brother’s gaze. Instead, he continued to pack, his jaw clenched in determination. "It’s not up for discussion," he replied firmly, his tone leaving no room for argument. "It’s not safe for you here anymore. I warned you previously. You need to stop getting obsessed! Last year too, you lost your mind and look what had happened! That girl committed suicide and I was left to clean up your mess! And this time... you saw who that girl was with, kiddo. The girl has already seen my face even if she has not seen yours. And do you think that this pathetic excuse for a hood can hide you from that Demon?"
"I promised mother that I would always protect you but how can I do that if you keep getting into trouble."
The young man stepped closer, his eyes pleading with his brother beneath the hood. "I’m not leaving the country, Alex. No matter how much you try to force me. I love her and she loves me. That Demon is the one who came between us. That is why she must have been scared. She would have been worried about me. That the Demon would hurt me. It is why she ran away from me, to protect me. Don’t you remember how I told you that she had specially come to inform me about breaking up with that previous boyfriend of hers?" His voice wavered as he said this but Alex could see the absolute trust in his younger brother’s voice, making him worry even more.
The boy had been hanging onto his sanity by a thread, but he seems to have lost now that as well, after meeting Nora Williams. Alex rued the day the girl had come into his younger brother’s life and felt hatred consume him. Why did that woman have to flirt with him in the first place?