Part 25


Magnus POV

Flashback to 1 week ago

Its been a week, seven bloody days since my son talk to me. This kid sure put up a fight. The only communication he and I managed to achieve was eye contact and surprisingly I was the one who begged not him. I thought it was funny at first few hours but when it started to become almost three days he's not speaking to me its a freaking challenged. Lets see who won this match.

But I stand corrected. Never have I thought I would miss Rafael's voice and his demeaning behavior of always shouting at my ear early in the morning. This has to stopped, all this has to end. I was waited for him to come back home from his soccer practice when I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the living room. Surprised enough he didn't mutter a word nor even questioning my motives. I pulled him to the couch and I know he was sweaty and sticky but I don't care. I can't wait anymore, this is torturing. "Sit!" I commanded and he looked at me like the hanger waiting for execution order. Now I'm terrified. Has my son possessed by a demon?

He stood reluctantly not without crossing his arm on his chest. I kneeled before him to get to the same eye level. I sighed before I continued. "Rafael please. We need to talk this out. You can't kept your silence forever. What if something happened and you don't get to talk to me anymore?" I played the pity card, that was the only bullet I have in winning this argument over a six years old. He just shrugged his shoulder and got off the couch. I grabbed his collar and placed him back on the couch.

"Please, I'm begging you, tell me what I have to do to win your voice back. I'm tired of this game, you win Rafael, please just tell me what I have to do. Please I surrender." I lifted both of my hands up in the air signing I surrendered to our little game. He had a smug smirk on his face when I said those defeated word.

"I won." He whispered right in front of my face and literally our face are barely inches away from touching the nose tip together. My eyes widen in shocked when he suddenly he laughed and falls back on the couch. "Now daddy, now that you had surrender to me, I will collect my reward now." He still crossed his arm and his legs are on top of each other wiggling it on the air like he's the boss. Well to think of it right now he did own my ass. I stares at him thinking what did he want from me this time. If its another pet I'm so dead. I haven't seen Chairman Meow for almost a week now and I wonder what happened to that poor kitty.

"Name your price." I asked and he looked to his side for a while as if he was thinking and he turned back his gaze at me. "I want Alec. I want to see him and I want him to live here as my nanny." I wasn't expected for him to ask me that but replacing Alec, my old assistant to be his nanny? Some moves kid, but I won't let him have all the fun.

"Okay, okay, one, you can't replaced your nanny just like that, poor Erna. How she would feel if she found out you replaced her with someone else. Second, I told you Alec is not a discussion anymore." He huffed in anger before he rolled off the couch and stood before me again. "Then we can continue our little game till both of us surrender. Good day Mr Bane." He turned around and I managed to caught his shirt again and he tried to escape but I pulled him towards me and turned his body around so we face each other. Seriously though? Mr Bane?

I was about to burst out in anger but then I saw tears forming in his eyes threatened to fall. I kneeled back on the floor and cupped his cheek. "Why is he so important to you? You barely know him." I asked and he wiped his eyes with the back of his palm to dry them off. "Because if you didn't fight for me, I would end up like him too daddy." That was it, that was the line I knew I crossed when my son burst out in tears. I pulled him towards my chest as he continued cried soaking my shirt. My vision were blurred with my tears but I held it as well.

I pulled him back away so I could talk to him, I lifted him up and sat him on my lap after I sat on the couch. "Who told you this? You were too young to remember." I asked him but he wasn't gonna tell me, he was hiding the culprit. "Who was it Rafe?" I raised my voice and he was startled but then he answered, "C-Camille." I swore I would kill anyone who hurt my son but I never expect Camille would do that to him. I took few deep breaths before I looked at Rafe again.

"Rafe listen, Alec is complicated, grown ups are complicated and you won't understand. But when you are bigger you will, trust me. You don't want to get involved in this mess." I tried to reason with him but then he shot me a look. "Don't talk to me like I'm three, I'm old enough daddy. I know he's at the hospital cause the bad guy tried to hurt him. Jax told me that himself." Another person on list I would kill with my bare hand. I sighed in exasperation before I muttered under my breath on killing him.

"He had to tell me, I had a knife on his throat when he was driving."

"Rafe! You can't do that!" I was shocked, this is definitely not my son. What has got into him? "Well you told me I should go for what I want and nothing to stop me so I did. I wasn't going to hurt him, I love Jax, and he wasn't even driving either, I'm not stupid daddy." He clicked his tongue like its something normal for him.

"Look Rafe, I gave you that knife to protect yourself not to hurt others. Please tell me you're not using the knife willingly." I gave him a small pocket knife since my business made a lot of enemies. I put it in his bag pack and he carried it with him all the time. "Daddy I know, I'm sorry but I had too. No one is telling me what I want and I had to do something. I'm sorry." He looked down on his lap playing with fingers and I sighed rubbing my nose bridge. Only one kid and I'm already all over the place imagine if I had more of this.

"Rafe, look-"

"Daddy please. Jax told me Alec is hurt badly and he ran away from his home, he doesn't have any place to stay isn't he? Please let him stay with us. Our house is big enough for him, he will work for you so you won't have to worried about giving him money. You can take mine if that would changed your mind." He put his hand together in a fist begging me, so I would changed my mind. Honestly I don't recognized my own son anymore. This is not Rafe I knew one week ago. He never would share his money with anyone not even my mother.

"Fine, but under one condition!" I raised my finger at him before he could yelp in excitement. "Tomorrow, you're the one who had to make him come home with us, if he refused its on you. I will not be part of this. Its all on you." He had a frowned on his face thinking for a few seconds before he raised his gaze back at me. He had a wide smile plastered on it showing his teeth. "Thank you daddy." He hugged me before he climbed off my lap and headed upstairs.

I hope this could work, I really don't want Rafe to feel disappoint again. I really can't. My heart broke if Alec would say no to him. He might not want to come home with me but at least if Rafe is the one asking he would considered.

End of flashback

Alec POV

"Alec?" Sebastian asked me, and I stares at both of them. I felt like my life is hanging by a thread right now. Before I thought I won't have a home to go too, now I have two and I have to choose. What worst would it come if I would go with Magnus, oh right, his fabulous fiancé, his annoying attitude and not too mention our past.

But the worst part is Rafe's expression that made me want to drop everything and followed his order at anything. His cute face with his big brown eyes, who wouldn't say no. I shook the feeling and made my decision. "I'm sorry Rafe, I have to go. You should go home with your dad now." I stood up while Sebastian helped me to sit on the wheelchair. I saw the look on Rafe's face when I said no and I swore I would have been scared if I wasn't wheel away from the room. He had this murderous look on his face and his gaze were not on me it was on Sebastian and I saw how he got fidgeting when Rafe looked at him like that. "Daddy!" He shouted and Magnus raised his eyebrow at him. I was hoping that Magnus would at least try to ask me but he said otherwise. "Hey, I told you, you're on your own."

Rafe had the same expression but this time even more furious. Talk about spoiled brat but he is not a brat, he's a sweetheart and he just want what he wished for. I guess not today. Sebastian wheeled me out from the room and as soon as we reached the lobby he told me to wait for him getting his car. I waited while sitting at the wheelchair. I felt pain at my back sitting on it so I decide to stood since I knew Sebastian won't take that long.

As soon as I stepped out from the wheelchair I felt dizzy and I couldn't hold anything since I was at the middle of the entrance. I thought I was gonna fall down but then two strong arms wrapped around my side stopping me from my fall. "Hey, you okay? Are you good?" Damn I can't shake him off, he is literally everywhere. I nodded before he helped me sat back on the wheelchair, bad move Alec. I didn't bother to look at his face and I knew I would not be able to resist.

"Where's Rafe?" I asked seeing him not around us. "He's at the car waiting." Magnus kneeled in front of me and he sighed. Why does he have to look this good. Seriously who wear suit all the time. His position made his suit wrapped tighter around his body. I can see the fabric ripping around his muscular arm and legs. "Alexander. Please come home with us. I'm so sorry for not seeing you for whole week. I didn't mean too." He pleaded hoping I would forgive him.

"Why didn't you? Why you left me all alone after you helped me? If you want to leave me alone why did you save me? You should have let me die. You think its easy to live like this Magnus, its not. Fearing of what would come next, I can't handle my own emotion, much less you playing with it." I burst into tears and he looked down to his lap knowing well I spoke the truth. He couldn't face me, he couldn't face the truth.

"I'm sorry, I know I messed up but please Alec give me another chance. I'm not doing this for me, I'm doing this for Rafe. He was the one who fight for you and i'm trying to make him happy. I can't live knowing my son would never spoke to me again. Plus you've seen how he's behaving, I swore I might need to called a priest for exorcising a demon out of him." I had to chuckled at the thought of Magnus and Rafe fighting with each other and I couldn't contained my laugh. He looked up to me and smiled.

"Fine, I will but its for Rafe, not you Mr Bane." He nodded and mouthed thank you to me. As soon as he raised himself from his kneeled, Sebastian came behind him ready to push me into the car when I stopped him. "On second thought Seb, is it okay if I stayed with Magnus if you don't mind." He looked at me and back at Magnus who's now on the phone calling his driver to come around at the entrance.

"Alec are you sure?" He asked and I looked at Magnus who had a smile on his face. I nodded at him and kept repeating my sorry. "Its okay, I know you would have chose him either way. Plus me and Leah would used the spare room for other things, maybe a store, I don't know we'll see." I smiled thinking how cool Sebastian for understanding at this. After all he had done for me. I know its selfish for me to do this but thinking back Leah and him might need their privacy together since the new arrival will be coming soon and I definitely won't be third wheeling in any way.

He waved me goodbye as he wanted to get his car out of the way from the other car to pass by. After two cars passed, Magnus black Mercedes parked and out came Jax opening a door and excited Rafe jumped out from the car and yelled my name. "Alec! Thank you daddy." He went to hug Magnus' leg. He patted his back before he leaned and kissed the top of his head. "Lets go." He helped me to stood and climbed on the car. Rafe being the good boy he is, he helped his dad to hold the car door for me while Jax took my bag and placed it at the back compartment. As comfortable as the car was, I still felt dizzy on the ride and can't wait to arrive at his mansion.

I was expecting the whole ride to be calm but Rafe was all over the place and he can't stop talking. For goodness sake, he never did stop talking and I could see Magnus getting annoyed on his own son. How many times exactly he asked Rafe to be quiet so I could rest but only took him a few seconds before he could find another topic to rant about. My head were pounding even more and my vision is getting blurred. I felt nauseous and my throat become watery as I tried to swallow even more.

"M-Magnus stopped the car. Stop the car please." He instructed Jax to stop by the roadside and I opened the door quickly running to the side expelled everything out. Soon I heard another car door was opened and I felt a hand rubbing my back softly. "Alec I'm so sorry, Rafe can be chatty when he's excited." He apologized for his six year old while I feel bad for ruining the car ride. I heard him yelled at Rafe to stay in the car but I shook my hand not too shout at him. "I'm okay Magnus, its just I got car sick a lot. Plus my concussion is still healing." I raised my body inhaling a deep breath as I closed my eyes.

"Daddy." Magnus was annoyed but when he looked at Rafe, he was pointing at me and Magnus gasped. "What?" I asked. I looked at him and noticed he looked at my stomach. I looked down and saw blood stained on my shirt. Shoot, it must be the stitches when I bend over to vomit a while ago. I lifted my shirt exposing my bruised stomach and sutured wound."Its fine, the suture is still in place. Its just minor bleed, nothing to worry about." I reassured him and the look on his face is not happy.

"Alec maybe we should go and have it look at." Magnus insisted but I declined the offer. I headed to my door side and Jax held it open for me but when he want to get to Magnus side he said its fine, he got it. With that we continued our ride to his mansion and my luck Rafe does kept his mouth shut for a while and our journey were soon ended. Probably the sight of me getting sick frightened him but he kept looking at me checking whether I was okay and I gave reassuring smile every now and then. 

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