Tides Of Healing Love

25. Offer.

"Go take a shower, meanwhile I will cook something to eat."

"You will cook?" Yibo asked.

"Yes, I will, and I am a very good chef. Now hurry up and go get fresh." Zhan said as he turned him around and pushed him forward, he also handed over a towel and some clothes to Yibo, before making him go inside the washroom and then he rushed to the kitchen.

Meanwhile, when Yibo went inside the washroom, he saw that everything was in pairs; the toothbrush was two; the bathrobes were two, and shavers as well.

Yibo smiled when he saw that, once he came down after showering, he saw that Zhan was setting the table, "come on have a seat." Zhan said and pulled out the chair for Yibo.

"Thank you." Yibo said as he sat down and Zhan served him before he served himself and sat beside Yibo, as they started eating.

"How is it?" Zhan asked.

"Nice."

"Just nice?" Zhan teased and Yibo just gave him a side eye, "perfect."

"I knew it." 

After they were eating Zhan kept the dishes aside and took out some ice cream, for both of them as the both sat and ate, in silence, Yibo was the first one to speak, "four months ago my aunt died."

Zhan listened to him and said nothing and Yibo was not even looking at him, he was only staring at his ice cream and said, "it was a normal day and I was at my job when the call came that my aunt had a heart attack while driving and then she got into an accident, she was pronounced dead at the hospital.

I went into a starte of shock and I had no idea what to do.

While I was rushing to the hospital, I even lost my phone somehow, it was very bad, I had gone numb, I didn't feel anything, I didn't even cry, I just felt so numb and so hollow and so empty as if someone had ripped my heart out and took the ability to feel.

I went on an autopilot mode and arraged the funeral and all, I completely blocked everything I even forgot telling you, I hadn't even spoken a word to anyone that week.

After the funeral was done, her lawyer came to me and told me that I had inherited her house and all her property and even her savings investments everything, that was the first time I had learned that my aunt had really quiet a lot of money saved up.

She has two houses, including the one I lived and two flats and some land, she also had invested in share market overall, it was enough to live a comfortable life, that was her life's work, her hard earned money.

My aunt was married once and her husband had died, after that she remained alone till her death.

My family found out about the sum that I had inherited and so like hungry dogs they came to me, they are asking me to give her house to them.

I refused and so they made my life hell, they literally stalked me and came to my office and created a huge scene.

I got more and more depressed and I didn't tell you because I thought that I would be able to handle it myself.

I had my job to keep my busy and distracted but then one day for some reason I lost my job, that was the last straw, I had lost the job I had worked so hard to get and I became depressed, I wanted to talk to you but then...."

Yibo inhaled as he said, "but then I saw your social media, I saw that your brother was engaged, your mother was free of cancer, your company was finally booming once again after years of effort, your own career was going well and you looked so, so, so happy in those photos.

That was the first time, I thought that you looked so far away, you looked like someone else, someone who didn't need me anymore, you looked like someone who shouldn't mingle with a mess like me, you once again looked like someone whom I can only admire from the side and can never stand beside you, so in that moment I felt helpless and worthless, all my efforts were wasted and I felt like I lost you as well.

I lost everything and I got mad, angry and jealous and so I blocked you. I am sorry. And after that when I felt that I had nothing left, nothing to gain, nothing to lose... I was met with Sam in a bar, at that time I bad no idea that he was my sister's husband.

He came to me and offered support, I thought that he had changed although I still hated him, I let him sit near me since I didn't had the energy to tell him to go away, and he gave me drugs.

I am not addicted, I swear I am not, but at that time I really, really needed them, the drugs they made me feel warm and they made me less sad and helped me to get away from reality. That's why I took them.

And guess what later on I figured out that it was Sam who had went to my manager and told her about my past of taking drugs and even causing an accident because I was driving under the influence and I was fired, and my self-loathing only increased."

Zhan heard everything with attention and although he was quiet, with how firmly he was holding the ice-cream bowl, Yibo can tell that he was mad, very, very mad.

So Yibo grabbed his hand and gently massaged it and said, "but then you came to me, once again out of nowhere, when I needed you the most, and saved my life once again... really... what sorcery is this?"

Zhan sighed as he looked at Yibo, "I am sorry, I wasn't there."

"I didn't tell you anything it was not your fault, and even without me telling you anything you still managed to save me, you are more like my knight in shinning armour."

Zhan gave him a faint smile, "I will never ever let anyone hurt you again, I promies you. Yibo. What's yours will always be yours and no one can take it away."

Yibo smiled, "You too, you are mine too right?"

"Yes, of course, this body, heart, soul, brain everything is yours, and only yours."

Yibo giggled, "that's enough. As long as you are with me. I am fine."

"Same here." Zhan smiled, "all these years, you and I we have both worked hard but sperately let's work hard together now, let's enjoy the fruit of our success together."

"Yeah, but I am unemployed at the moment."

"Oh no you are not, you are on a vacation." Zhan said, "after all you need a lot of rest, nutrition and recharging before you go back for the fight."

Yibo looked confused and Zhan said, 'Well you see Yibo, those people need a solid answer and of course they also need to see how talented, skilled and worthy you are. Of course if you don't want to deal with them, then fine, I can deal with them have them vanish from the face of earth and you can sit back and enjoy, if you don't want to work that's fine as well, I will support both of us."

Yibo laughed as he shook his head, "No need, I will deal with them myself and I should start job hunting."

"Oh, you can work for our company and of course I am not saying this  because you are my lover, I am not even offering you a job, it will be my brother who has the final say so of course you would have to go through the interview and everything. I won't refer you to him, you getting the job will purey depend on you.

I am just giving you a suggestion."

Yibo nodded, "I guess, I will give it a try then."

Zhan smiled as he held Yibo's hand and gave it a kiss, "You want to try therapy?"

"Therapy?"

"Yeah, I know at first it might sound weird, and I thought that therapy was useless, but it's not that bad you know."

"I'll think about it."

The two smiled at each other as they ate their ice cream before Zhan asked, "tell me, something?"

"Hm..."

"Are you single?"

Yibo paused as he looked at Zhan and smiled, as he asked back, "are you?"

"Yes. You?"

"Me too."

The two laughed and Zhan said, "so now you are stuck with me."

"Happily."