Brothers

45

Parker screams as Yeosang bounces him in his arms, trying to get him to stop crying, "I know baby I know, your gums are hurting," Yeosang coos, shushing his son softly as he holds him close, "Hwa is on his way with teething gel."

The door opens soon after and Seonghwa steps in with a bag in his hand and Ana's small hand in the other. The older sighs, he was exhausted and hasn't slept well the past few days ever since Mingi, Jongho, and San left. He grabs the small box from the bag and opens it for Yeosang, handing him the tube of teething gel, "Here, just a small dab on his gums and rub it in. They say you should wait for a moment after applying the gel to feed him, so what I normally did with Ana is give her the pacifier and once she calmed down or the medicine had its chance to numb her gums I would nurse her."

Yeosang nods, "Would you open the tube for me please?" he hands it back to Seonghwa and the older opens it without hesitation, putting a small drop on his fingertip before Yeosang rubs it on Parker's very red gums. He was still crying and fought Yeosang's finger as he massaged the gel in his gums, but the medicine is quick and soon his whines quieted down to whimpers and pitiful coos. Yeosang pouts, "I'm so sorry baby, I know your gums hurt and you miss your daddy."

"Daddy?" Ana calls from the living room, waddling cutely towards Yeosang. She was looking around as she walks closer, humming cutely before pouting, "Where Daddy?"

"Baby, daddy had to go on a small business trip with Uncle Jongho and Uncle San," Seonghwa tried to explain it to her the best he could but the small one-year-old just ignored her mother.

"Daddy?" She calls loudly for Mingi as she walks down the hallway. Seonghwa sighs, Ana has been entering her terrible two's a little too early for his liking. The little girl was definitely becoming sassier and nosier. She's thrown more tantrums since Mingi's temporary departure from home, not happy that her father isn't around and hasn't been for a few days now.

Soon, Parker's whines quieted down to sniffles and angry hums, suckling on his mother's finger. Yeosang sighs, "He's not going to be happy once I remove my finger but he needs to feed."

"Give him a few more moments, he's still having some discomfort and if you hinder that small ounce of comfort in any way he will get upset again," Seonghwa spoke softly, stroking Parker's chubby cheek. The almost five-month-old lazily looks over to Seonghwa, the Omega pouts as the baby's water line releases a single tear down his temple and into his hairline, "Oh baby..."

Hopefully, everything is going well and Mingi is heading home soon. His Alpha was supposed to call them when they got settled in a motel room. He had yet received a phone call and he was growing very worried about his mate...

Please hurry home Mingi...

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The door to the motel room bursts open and San pants as he looks around for his Alphas. Jongho immediately stands from the bed, same as Mingi, "San? What did you find?"

"You're not going to believe me if I told you," San pants, running his hands through his hair as he paces, "This is bad guys, this is really bad."

"San, slow down," Jongho grabs his wrist and makes the Beta sit by him on the bed instead of pacing, "Start from the beginning. What did you see?"

"I went on this tour the zoo offered to look at the different exhibits and stuff," San swallowed, shaking his head, "I didn't know what else to do and where to go so I just followed the humans. I heard them talking about the 'new wolves' and 'how they were huge.' I nearly had a panic attack because it just confirmed that they are in there," San broke down and released a single sob, rocking back and forth on the bed.