"Cough! Cough!" Alex coughed.
"Water..." he said with a weak voice.
"Brother, you woke up... How are you feeling?" Said Victoria with a worried look.
"Water..." Alex repeated weakly.
Lila quickly approached and served him a glass of water, while Felix blocked Leo's path, preventing him from getting closer.
"What?"
"Mr. Lancaster just woke up, and you can barely wait to seduce him?" Mocked Felix while Amelia smiled beside him.
"We will still settle the score with you," said Amelia with a glint of cruelty in her eyes.
The Lancaster family was in shock after hearing what Felix said.
Lila's hand trembled and almost knocked over the glass, while Ted, who had remained invisible for most of the time protecting Lila, caught the glass before it fell.
"Be careful," Ted said to Lila, not at all surprised by the situation.
Ted came from a family of politicians and was skilled at reading people's expressions.
When, suddenly, a month ago, Alex started drinking non-stop and getting more drunk than sober in his free time, Ted went to talk to him.
"Why do you hang out with so many omegas?"
"You know they are only interested in your money," Ted asked.
"Hic!" T-Ted, do you know?!... My... Hic! Bamilyyyy wants me to Hic!… hadeee a fiancé…"
"Hic!" I have to enjjjoyyy… before that, right? Said Alex, drunk.
"Is it because of Lila?" Ted asked with a hint of pain in his eyes.
Ted knew Alex well and could tell something was off with what he said. He didn't want to have fun before tying the knot, as he told his family.
What Alex wanted was to ruin the engagement in a stupid way, even though he was the Alpha heir.
Alex knew he couldn't go against the family's decision, not until he was strong enough to stand on his own without the family's help.
It was the same for Ted, because his family was a family of politicians, he could not court Lila openly, as she came from a military family.
And even though this union would bring numerous benefits to his family, it would also attract the attention of his father's political enemies, who could use it to insinuate a coup.
Even if his family did not have that intention, it could ruin his family's political career, and his father would not allow that.
That's why Ted works twice as hard in the business world without family help and refuses to enter politics, because if he wants to marry Lila, he has to be strong enough on his own to be worthy of her, even if he separates from the family, which will be difficult, as his father wouldn't allow it so easily.
Until then, he could only protect Lila in silence.
"Lilaaaa?... Hic!
"Bwahhahahaha!" Hic! Hic! "Of course not!" said Alex, and Ted's face softened.
However, Ted realized it wasn't because of Lila... so Alex was in love with someone else.
Even though they were childhood best friends, Alex had never told him anything and, apparently, had no intention of telling.
Ted was curious, but he knew how to pretend he didn't know anything when necessary.
– "Doctor, please check my son's condition," said Nathaniel, looking at Leo with suspicion.
"Doctor, please check on my son's condition," said Nathaniel, looking at Leo with suspicion.
He had thought that Leo had unmasked his family due to his loyalty to the Lancaster family and intended to promote him and give him a raise, but if he has ulterior motives...
The doctor approached while Alex was drinking his glass of water and examined him briefly.
"The situation with Mr. Alex is under control."
"He has a case of pneumonia, but since it is in the early stages, it is well controlled." After his fever passes, he will be able to recover at home with the prescribed medications."
"He was lucky, if he had been brought to the hospital later, it could have turned into a severe pneumonia case," said the doctor.
While everyone was shocked by the news, Alex was completely calm. In his past life, he hadn't been taken to the hospital in time, causing him to stay in the hospital for 1 month unconscious with a severe case of pneumonia on the brink of death.
When he woke up, the engagement with Oliver had already been confirmed and the news of her pregnancy had already spread.
With him on the brink of death and without knowing what had actually happened in the room, what could his family do?
Oliver was enveloped in his pheromone scent due to the prolonged time they spent in the room, and without Alex's testimony and with the doctor's bribery, the Lancaster family was forced to accept the engagement.
Even though it was later discovered that he had been drugged during the investigations, which were more difficult to conclude because they were looking for a beta when in fact it was an alpha, when the truth came to light, Oliver's pregnancy had already been announced and the child was supposedly his.
That child did not survive, and because of the abortion, no one investigated the alleged paternity. And Oliver became her future husband. Alex found the situation ridiculous as she remembered how the situation and Oliver's behavior changed after the Apocalypse.
AN* (author's note): Hello, darlings, today's chapter is a bit shorter, but don't worry. Starting from the next chapter, we will go back a bit in time, to Alex's first life, and we will understand a little of everything that happened in the past and how their relationship fell apart, up to what led to Alex's change in behavior and mindset.
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