Chapter 272: Skinning
Ye Lin didn't dare to look directly into Xavier's sad eyes. He had also lived in an orphanage and knew that life there was not easy.
Hesitantly, he persuaded: "Xavier, I know you may not be able to accept me right now, it's okay, we can take it slowly."
"I swear to you, we have never abandoned you, we love you very much, but,"
At this point, Ye Lin lowered his head, his voice full of guilt: "But we failed to protect you and let you be stolen by the bad guys. I'm sorry."
Xavier looked Ye Lin up and down, as if considering the credibility of what he said, "You didn't abandon me?"
"No." Ye Lin answered firmly.
"Really?" Xavier confirmed again.
"Never."
Finally getting the answer he had been searching for for seventeen years, Xavier lowered his head and smiled bitterly. This was clearly the answer he had wanted to know in his dreams, but after knowing it today, he felt nothing.
Once you miss it, you miss it.
He had lived well without them for the past seventeen years, and he didn't need their belated concern.
Raising his head to let the tears flow back, Xavier turned around and walked into the welfare home without any reluctance.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, I want to go back and rest. Please go ahead."
"etc!"
Ye Lin grabbed Xavier's arm, frowned, and looked at the dilapidated welfare home. The two dangerous buildings looked like they could be blown down by a strong wind.
Persuade him patiently.
"Xavier, can we go home and stay here first?"
"Or, if you don't want to see me, you can live on your own. Castle, manor, villa, flat, apartment, what kind do you like? We have them all, I can take you there."
Xavier brushed off Ye Lin's hand and replied coldly: "No, I'm living well here, you don't have to worry about me."
No longer caring about Ye Lin's reaction, Xavier turned and walked into the dark and damp welfare home.
The person behind him didn't say anything, just sighed.
then,
The footsteps were getting farther and farther away.
After a few seconds, there was the sound of a car door opening and closing.
The pretended coldness on Xavier's face cracked with the sound of the car door closing.
The tip of his nose felt inexplicably sore, the road under his feet gradually became blurry, and he felt like crying.
The man who said he was his brother just left like that.
And you said you didn't abandon yourself,
You clearly don't care about him at all!
Xavier stood in the yard in a daze, feeling that the family recognition was extremely boring.
He was brewing a sad mood,
Suddenly, a questioning voice came from behind.
"Why haven't you gone up yet? Don't you want to rest?"
Ye Lin held a few pieces of clothes in his hands and walked around to Xavier from behind. With the help of the bright moonlight at night, he figured out where the stairs of the dilapidated building were.
Xavier was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Ye Lin to not leave. Not wanting him to see him cry, he quickly turned his head away, wiped his face twice, and asked awkwardly with a nasal tone, "Didn't you leave? Why did you come back?"
The yard was too dark. Ye Lin saw two places that looked like stairways and was guessing in his mind which way to go.
The grumpy kid next to him suddenly spoke, interrupting Ye Lin's train of thought.
"Hmm?" Ye Lin turned his head in confusion.
I quickly realized what he meant.
He laughed muffledly, then raised the car keys and clothes in his hand and shook them at Xavier.
"I'm going to turn off the car and pick up a few clothes from the bag at the door to cover myself with when I sleep tonight."
Seeing that Xavier didn't understand what he meant, Ye Lin shrugged his shoulders and started to act like a rogue.
"If you don't come back with me, can I live with you?"
"Besides, my car is out of gas, so just do me a favor and take me in tonight, okay?"
After saying this, he did not give Xavier a chance to refuse.
Ye Lin strode directly into the stairwell and went upstairs. His main idea was that as long as he slipped fast enough, no one would be able to refuse him.
Not abandoned,
Xavier was a little happy in his heart, but he refused to admit it. He said sarcastically, "The conditions here are very poor. How can a grown man like you get used to sleeping here?"
"It doesn't matter whether I'm used to it or not. The important thing is where I want to sleep. Open the door." Ye Lin raised his chin towards a wooden door, reminding Xavier to open the door.
"How did you know this was my room?"
"I don't know, just a guess."
Xavier...
There were few things in the room, only two iron beds, a wooden table with peeling paint, a wardrobe without doors, a ball of newspaper stuffed in the upper left corner of the window, which must have had a hole, and some scattered daily necessities in the corner, including toothpaste, toothbrush, half a piece of soap, and a faded yellow plastic basin. Nothing else.
It's almost like a refugee camp.
Ye Lin stood at the door for a long time, unable to recover. Even though he had made sufficient mental preparations downstairs, his heart began to throb with pain when he saw it with his own eyes.
His younger brother, the young master of Fairburn, lived in such a damp, dark and poor space for more than ten years without even a decent pillow.
The bedding on the bed was as thin as a book.
He's going to destroy Louis!
Xavier is also his biological son. Louis has been...
“Hmm!”
Ye Lin suddenly leaned over the door frame and let out a painful cry from his chest.
"What’s wrong with you?!"
Xavier ran out of the house in a panic and supported Ye Lin who was about to lie on the ground.
"It's okay, medicine..." Ye Lin covered his chest with one hand and reached for the medicine in his trouser pocket with the other.
"Medicine? Where is it?! What's wrong with you?!"
Xavier saw that he was out of breath and his lips were blue. He was afraid that his cheap brother who had appeared less than half an hour ago would die. His eyes were red with anxiety. He tried his best to find medicine for him.
Taking out the medicine from his pocket, Xavier stuffed a handful of it into Ye Lin's mouth without thinking twice.
After a few minutes, Ye Lin got up from the ground with the help of Xavier.
Xavier was frightened by him and said with lingering fear: "Well, what's wrong with you? Are you allergic to poor places?"
Apart from this, Xavier really couldn't think of what was wrong with Ye Lin. He was a fine person, standing at the door, and suddenly he became unwell the moment he turned his head?
"No, I'm just angry." Ye Lin touched the bed board and sat down.
Xavier pointed at himself in disbelief: "Are you mad at me? What did I do?"
Ye Lin touched the hard bed board beneath him, then looked at this gloomy den that looked no different from a rat's nest. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He gritted his teeth and said, "It's not you, it's a damned thing. Tomorrow I'm going to kill him and skin him alive! Trash! Pervert!"
Ye Lin was almost driven crazy by Louis. He pounded the bed with his fist and started to curse loudly without any manner.
Xavier suddenly felt a little cold and silently put on a coat to cover his skin.
He thought to himself, this cheap brother of his turned out to be a dandy boy, good at racing, swearing, spending money, and always talking about killing people.
If I don’t go with him tomorrow, he will skin me alive, right?
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