Chapter 374 - What Magic Is This? (1/2)
Nicolae was stunned by Terry's explanation. And slowly he had to agree. Without Aleksis, he would never have met his father. Lauriel would have died twenty years ago.
For this, he would was forever grateful to Aleksis. At this point, he did not mind that Lauriel loved Aleksis more than he loved him, his own son.
Nicolae and Terry then followed Aleksis and Lauriel into the kitchen. The aura of animosity between the two had now subsided. Nicolae actually felt touched because Terry seemed to understand him quite well. He came to remember that actually, behind Terry's annoying attitude, he had a pleasant personality.
He remembered having talked with Terry as 'Billie Jean' and they opened up to one another as orphans. Now that he knew Terry as Aleksis' older brother, he realized that the two of them were actually very similar.
Terry was an orphan as he lost his parents in an accident eight years ago, but he still had biological parents, namely Jean and Finland, who were the donors for the IVF procedure used by his mother and father as an attempt to conceive a child.
Jean now had a fiancee, a very famous singer who treated Terry like her own child, and Finland also opened her home for Terry to become her son, together with her three other biological children, namely Aleksis, London, and Rune. Her husband, Caspar, was always very kind to Terry.
In addition, Terry was treated very well by Lauriel who was Aleksis' godfather and he often invited Terry to venture out with Aleksis. That was how the three of them became very close.
It was complicated indeed; on the one hand Terry was an orphan, but on the other hand he had many families.
Nicolae had lost his adopted parents decades ago, and as an only child, he had no more relatives, and that was the reason why he considered himself a 'lone wolf'.
But now, he finally found out that he had a father who physically looked the same age as him. So, you could say he was an orphan, but at the same time, he still had his father … How complicated!
”How is your wound? Here, let me have a look,” Lauriel, who saw the arrival of the two young men, waved at Nicolae to come closer. He sipped his tea then placed his cup on the table. After Nicolae was in front of him, he pushed his son's body on the dining chair. ”Take off your clothes.”
Nicolae obeyed and took off his shirt. The bandage on his left shoulder looked neat, but Lauriel removed it anyway. Nicolae, who thought his father wanted to change his gauze bandage, was about to refuse. ”The bandage is still good. Really, Dad ...”
Lauriel ignored the protest. Lauriel still removed the gauze bandage on Nicolae's shoulder nonchalantly, ”I am just taking the bandage off, what's wrong with you? Are you shy because Aleksis can see your body?”
Instantly Nicolae's face turned red. He did feel a bit awkward to appear shirtless in front of Aleksis. If that was another girl in the room, he wouldn't care, but he really liked Aleksis.
”What ...? You are shy?” Aleksis exclaimed in an amused voice, ”Who do you think changed your bloodied clothes yesterday? I've seen EVERYTHING.”
Nicolae's eyes widened so huge. He did not expect that Aleksis was the one who changed his clothes yesterday. He never considered asking. He only remembered waking up in the guest room with clean clothes.