Chapter 0405

“Maximus, are you okay?”

“Like you? You! You’re dead…! You’re not my brother! I’m confusing myself, my head is playing tricks on me…”

“No, Maximus, it’s not a trick of your mind. You know it’s really me.”

“No! My brother is dead, my brother didn’t have children, and certainly not grandchildren. You’re just someone who looks a lot like him…”

“Okay, if that’s really what you believe, then I don’t need to be wasting my time,” Peter said, somewhat exasperated.

Just as Peter began walking toward the door of his car, Maximus snapped out of his daze. He grabbed Peter’s arm, pulled him close, hugged him tightly, and began to cry. It was a heartbreaking sob, and for a moment, he released his hug, looking at Peter’s face and touching it with curiosity.

Maximus… you’re suffocating me!”

“Sorry, sorry! But I can’t believe it! You’re alive…! I need to know what happened. How did you survive? I have so *many questions…”

don’t think the street is the right place to talk. Let’s go for coffee. I really need one.

cars behind yours…”

you

“Yes!”

follow me. I know a good place around

him, and now he had his brother standing before him. Peter still displayed part of the carefree character he had before, but what Maximus didn’t know was that the man was doing his best to try to remember him. He knew who he was from photos, but

asked,

“Just an Americano..”

coffee. I didn’t sleep well. Ethan–remembered a last–minute assignment, and we were up

him about his life as if nothing had happened, as if he had always

brother and said, “Okay, ask me

are you

start with something a bit complicated. I have to confess that I don’t know who the hell you are. I know you’re my brother because my friend told me, but I

do you mean?”

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