Chapter 34 - Brothers slash Cousins

Alex POV

Little brother..

Brother..

The word ripped through my ears, pushed itself into my head and stayed inside. It bounced off the four walls, leaving an echo behind, an echo that kept on repeating, over and over and.. over again.

Brother?

He is my.. my brother?

The oxygen I tried to draw back into my lungs seemed to disappear, to vanish from the room as if his words sucked every last drop of it from the cold chilling air surrounding us. My chest tightened with agitation, my jaw clenched and I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to block all of it.

But my brain, my brain was teetering right on the edge of that fucking cliff.

Brother.

The word yet again repeated itself.

And like that, just like that, I fell off that cliff, and I knew, no, I was sure, that this time,

there is no coming back.

**FLASHBACKS**

I looked at the gun in my hand, at how my fingers are tightly wrapped around its grip. I gulped as the cold reached out from the metal and spread throughout my palm before it engulfed ev