His Dark Paradox: A Dark MM Sci-Fi Romance by Avery Tu & Kota Quinn

Author:Avery Tu & Kota Quinn [Tu, Avery & Quinn, Kota]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10:

Nate’s plate was half empty when Nuri arrived. Before he could be concerned it was because his brother wasn’t eating due to worry, he noticed half the side dishes set out had been picked clean.

“It’s about time.” Nate slapped his fork down onto the table and stood, reaching for Nuri as he approached to take his usual seat at the table. Someone had sat Nate down in the spot directly next to it on the right. “Are you all right? Really?”

“Yes.” Nuri eased his brother back down. “What are you doing here?”

“I came to see you, obviously. When the Emperor called to tell us you’d been in an accident Neve was already halfway to the airport before I could convince her to let me go alone.”

Nuri frowned. “Silver called you?”

“He explained that’s why you didn’t make it that day.” Nate inspected the bandage on Nuri’s ankle and grimaced. “It’s really not that bad, right? He said it wasn’t anything serious but that you’d been knocked out pretty good. And then last night—”

“You could have gotten yourself killed.” Now that he’d brought it up, Nuri’s anger over the whole ordeal returned full force. His coffee had already been poured and so far the two of them had been left alone, the door to the kitchen open but none of the servants in sight. No doubt word of what happened had already started to trickle throughout the mansion, but the last thing either of them needed was to add more fuel to that particular fire.

Especially after the Emperor had made him announce to Falc and the guards that the two of them had slept together.

“I thought—” Nate began, only to be cut off.

“It doesn’t matter what you believed was going on,” Nuri stated. “What matters is he’s the Emperor and you put us both at risk by acting impulsively. If he’d decided to throw you into prison there would be nothing I could do for you.”

Nate cocked his head. “…Even though the two of you are together?”

“We are not together.” He speared a small sausage on his plate and shoved it into his mouth, chewing more violently than necessary. “That bastard.”

He’d mumbled it past the mouthful, but Nate with his insanely good hearing picked up on it anyway.

“Weren’t you just scolding me for disrespecting the Emperor?” he tsked. “Being a hypocrite doesn’t make you a very convincing role model, brother.”

“You’re twenty-three years old.” Nuri rolled his eyes.

“But I still have to do as you say?”

“Yes.”

Nate snorted. “Hypocrite.”

It’d been forever since the two of them had gotten to sit together for a meal like this, and for a moment Nuri allowed himself to just enjoy his brother’s company. They’d been separated for years, largely due to him and his inability to leave Silver in the midst of a “work emergency”, yet at the first sign of real trouble, his brother had gotten on a ship and returned to planet for him.

“Neve?” he asked, still feeling guilty over having missed her graduation. More so now that he was aware Silver had lied on his behalf.

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