"Have you ever been told that almost half of your life was absolutely worthless? That everything you has sacrificed, everything you had tried to do had no meaning at all? That you weren't a partner to someone you were supposed to work with? Just... Just some glorified nanny?"

He shakes his head. "Yes, I love my siblings. No I do not intend to be away from all of them. I'll visit and send whatever excess cash I can because eventually what Omega has chosen will blow up in his face. Literally. But I can't be there anymore. Not under his roof, living on his dime doing the jobs he doesn't want to do or doesn't care to do or doesn't know how to do. Because apparently my life until a few days ago was a lie in his eyes."

Still, he doesn't pull away. Lets their hands stay like that, caught in each other. It's almost painful, the kindness and tenderness from this man who could be considered a stranger. Put that next to the casual cruelty of his brother and... it makes his chest ache. Where has something like this been all his life?