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Since that day, Alfred has never brought up any topic of "pregnancy" or "baby".

As the voyage time increased, Xiu became more and more uncomfortable, almost forcing himself to eat. However, although he had a strong willpower, his willpower could not help him stop vomiting.During the second half of the voyage, Xiu lost weight visibly to the naked eye, and Alfred brought the fleet chef over for meetings almost more often than business meetings.

Besides him, there was another person on board who couldn't sit still.

"Your Highness! Your Highness, please stay."

Austin followed out at the end of the meeting, and Alfred turned to him and asked, "Anything else?"

"Your Highness, my father greets you." Austin said bravely, "And... Your Highness, may I ask what happened?"

"What happened?"

"During the sleeping period yesterday, you called the doctor urgently, and today you postponed the meeting and went to the fleet kitchen... Yes, what happened to that one?"

The suite where Xiu lived was also the floor where Alfred's bedroom was located. From the very beginning, everyone was strictly prohibited from approaching. Even an insider like Austin had never seen Xiu during the entire voyage, so he could only rely on Alfred. Reid's actions speculate on the state of the people inside.

Alfred looked at him and asked, "Is this what your father asked you to ask, or did you want to ask yourself?"

As soon as Austin heard his tone, he felt a little bad. He thought about it and said, "I asked it myself. When we first boarded the ship, my father heard that...he was sick and he was very concerned. It's just that St. Gong has stepped up surveillance, so it is inconvenient for him to ask. If, I mean, if something happens, I can inform my father in time, and we can arrange the required resources in advance to ensure that as soon as we land..."

"I've already made arrangements." Alfred interrupted, "When is it the Stone's turn to make arrangements for him?"

Facing this question, Austin lowered his gaze, withstood the pressure and said, "Your Highness, we are his blood relatives after all, and he is mine—"

Before he finished speaking, he felt as if he was being stared at by an apex predator, his spine was chilled, and the fear engraved in his genes made him stiff, and he couldn't speak for a while—even if he was a sufficiently advanced genetically inherited Those who are still unable to deal with it calmly under the gaze of the golden pupil.

"Austin, do you think," Alfred asked word by word, "you are his younger brother?"

"What?" Austin didn't understand at all, he just came to care about his cousin's condition, how did the topic become like this, "I don't..."

Alfred said coldly: "You remember, he is mine!"

"...Yes, Your Highness."

"In this world, besides me, there are two other people who once called his brother, and he killed them with his own hands. One of them was beyond his control and wanted to take my position away. He personally stabbed the knife into his throat ’” said Alfred, in a tone of cruel display, “I warn you not to be the third.”

Afterwards, when Austin recalled this question, he couldn't figure it out—whether he wanted to take away Alfred's position, did he mean the second prince?But didn't the second prince drown after taking the medicine?

He never thought that the position Alfred mentioned was not the direct prince, but the position of "Xiu's younger brother".

But at this moment, Austin couldn't think so much, he was so overwhelmed by Alfred's power that he didn't dare to say anything, he only dared to respond.

"You are his relatives, I give you respect, I don't want you to pass over and offend me. Everything about him is arranged by me, not you, understand?"

"Understood, Your Highness."

"Fine. To answer your original question: he's sick, that's all."

Alfred dropped this sentence, turned and left.

Xiu is just sick.

This is how Alfred explained it to Austin, and he also said it to himself.

The night before they were about to land, Alfred felt a movement around him, he quickly opened his eyes, got out of bed, and followed Xiu to the bathroom.

Xiu Xiu was throwing up on the sink, and Alfred expertly embraced him halfway up, supported his weight with his body, and gently stroked his back.

"It's about to land." He said, he didn't know whether he was comforting Xiu or himself, "We'll have an operation when we land...you'll be fine soon."

The unbearable nausea passed, Xiu weakly washed his face and rinsed his mouth again, and was carried back to bed by Alfred.

Last time, after he got up to vomit at night, Alfred wanted to hug him, but he refused. Today he didn't refuse, but Alfred couldn't be happy—he knew how strong Xiu was, no Rejection can only be because it is too uncomfortable.

"Go to sleep."

Alfred lay down an arm's length away from Xiu, and reached out to hold his hand, "Brother, you don't have to worry about anything."

Xiu froze.

Ever since Dites boarded the ship, Alfred never slept next to him at night.As the landing approached, Alfred was very busy during the day, and at night, he kept such a distance from him.

Even if he just hugged him back and returned to the bed, Alfred automatically distanced himself from him.

This is the normal distance between brothers sleeping together.Xiuben thought he would be relieved, but he didn't.

"Are you a little anxious recently?" Xiu said, and then he corrected himself, "It should be irritable. Others on the fleet are not less angry with you."

Alfred paused, and said with a wry smile, "I thought I was pretending to be pretty good in front of you."

Xiu had already worked very hard, he didn't want his negative emotions to affect Xiu, and he tried to control it after returning to the room, but Xiu could still see it.After all, Xiu is the person who knows him best in the world, and living in the same apartment day and night, it is impossible to completely hide it from him.

In the quiet bedroom, Xiu said softly, "Alfred, you are still very young... You will eventually have children in the future."

Alfred sat up abruptly, gritted his teeth and asked, "You think it's because of this?! I'm in a bad mood because of the loss... because of this incident?"

If someone else faced his questioning, he would probably be so frightened that he would only agree with him, but Xiu was very calm, he didn't even get up, he was still lying on the bed, and asked: "Isn't it? You don't even dare to say The words 'lost child'."

Xiu was rarely so mean, but he seemed to be unable to control his emotions today. When he said this, both of them were stunned for a moment.

Alfred was speechless, but he quickly reacted and said immediately: "I don't want to lie and say that there is no reason at all, but it's only one percent! I'm in a bad mood because you're feeling bad, and I can't help you .”

Xiu looked at him, did not deny his statement, and said slowly: "But you are also angry with me."

"I...what?" Alfred said, "Why am I mad at you?"

"Because I don't want it, you are angry." Xiu said a little coldly, "You don't want to say that there is no such thing, do you?"

"Absolutely not!"

His denial angered Xiu.

After Xiu endured long periods of physical discomfort, mental ups and downs, and many consecutive nights of cold treatment, finally at this moment, he could no longer bear Alfred's white-washed attitude.

"Then you—"Why don't you hug me to sleep anymore?

Xiu really wanted to ask this question, but he really couldn't say that, but he thought it would be impolite if he thought about it in his heart.

So he glanced at the arm gap between the two of them, and said sarcastically, "If you had kept such a distance from me, I don't think there would be any problems today."

Alfred raised his eyebrows, his eyes swept back and forth between the two of them several times.

"You think I'm mad at you?"

As he spoke, he leaned over actively, eliminating the distance. He didn't touch Xiu's abdomen. He put his legs on both sides of Xiu's body, and put one hand beside Xiu's head.

Xiu was trapped between his body and the bed.He obviously wasn't frightened at all, but seeing the handsome face so close, Xiu's heartbeat still involuntarily accelerated.

"If you're not blaming me," Xiu tried to remain calm, "what else could it be?"

"because this."

Alfred said, grabbing Xiu's hand with one hand, and involuntarily brought Xiu's hand to touch his body.

When Xiu touched the hard object through the clothes, his mind went blank, his fair face instantly flushed, and he desperately tried to retract his hand, but Alfred grabbed it tightly, letting him His hands were tightly pressed against his pants.

"Did you feel it? Dites said, if I touch you now, I may hurt you. Although I have confidence in my self-control, when the temptation is too strong, I must prevent the possibility of making mistakes."

He took a deep breath and held Xiu's hand tighter, not letting him break free.

"You may not know how strong this is to me, and I dare not say it, for fear that you will hate me. But instead of being misunderstood by you, I'd better tell you: I want you every day when I lie next to you, Wanna kiss you, wanna kiss you—”

"Alfred!" Hugh covered his mouth with his free hand almost in a panic, "I... I see. I mean, since you, you don't mean that, then... I think too much."

Alfred stared fixedly at the person below him, because of struggling, his hair and clothes were a little messy, and his complexion was a rare reddish.

He closed his eyes and let go of Xiu's hand abruptly.

"Sorry, I'm kind of..." he said, "I didn't scare you, did I?"

Xiu shook his head and said, "No."

Alfred turned over and got out of bed, left a sentence of "I'm going to take a shower", and hurried into the bathroom.

It's self-evident what to do when I go to take a shower halfway through sleep.Xiu turned sideways, stared at the place where his back disappeared, and blinked.

It turned out that Alfred was not blaming him, not silently fighting, and not expressing dissatisfaction, but... protecting him.

It's just because his attraction to Alfred is too strong, so strong that Alfred is worried that his self-control will be defeated, so he must rely on distance for assistance.

Those anxiety, depression, distress with nowhere to vent, and days of depression seemed to have suddenly dissipated after learning about this incident.

Xiu reached out and touched where his heart was, where it was beating—it seemed to be beating a little too hard.

"Oops," he murmured.