Thrive in Catastrophe by 焦糖冬瓜

Chapter 76 Heine's Anguish

"No one will give him any trouble." Heine's frozen tone puts a halt to the tense subject.

When the aircraft stopped at the platform, Colonel Raven personally greeted them.

"Colonel Burton! It has been a long time! I see that you have successfully recovered Xiao Yan,"

Heine's hand roughly grabbed Xiao's wrist. "I need to test this guy's blood."

"Test for... What?" Lieutenant Colonel Raven looked at Heine blankly.

"I suspect that Xiao Yan is infected with x virus."

"The Surge did this? What for?"

Colonel Raven did not receive a reply. They all walked down the passage as the dangerous atmosphere around Burton crackled through the air. He maintained a tight grip on Xiao as they made their way into the base.

The strength of his grip is such that Xiao's bones nearly dislocate. Seeing the immense fury wrap around Heine, Xiao doesn't have the nerve to cry out.

He is aware that Heine is absolutely disgusted by the fact he is infected with the x-virus. The time he caught him using the x-2, he nearly killed him.

"I had no other way... if not for the x virus... I might be dead!"

The next moment Xiao found himself forced into Heine's arms.

This is the full embrace of Heine Burton. Xiao Yan never thought he would see the day Heine would hold him like this.

"Why do you torture me...will you ever stop?"

His words are squeezed out through his teeth. His tone is tight, as though his heart was pushed through his bones. Xiao looked up to see Heine's face is lined with sorrow and grief.


"What......"

Xiao's eyes widened as his mind worked to process Heine's words.

"You make me pay attention to you, look at you... I do everything to protect you...but you don't even cherish your own life!" A strange savagery lines his tone, undulating along his words, as a strangled wrath stains their edges.

"... Colonel Burton..."

"Don't call me that! I am not your Colonel!" Heine's palm moved to Xiao's cheek and he forced him to meet his gaze.

"How could you hold a gun to your head?! Shoot yourself with MY OWN GUN!"

His eyes which have always been cold are now crackling and burning with an unbelievable intensity. Long suppressed emotions break into waves, swelling and cresting in his eyes. They build and burgeon, threatening to burst out like a hurricane. Xiao has never seen such a frightening amount of emotion in Heine's gaze.

Xiao Yan opened his mouth. "I... I can't help... you know how scared I was..."

"I told you to leave me! I told you to go! That was an order! Why didn't you listen?!"

"You expect me to leave you? You have never left me! So suddenly that order is given by the Colonel?!"

"Yes. Because I have only ever given you one order."

"What?" Xiao Yan asked with a trembling voice.

"You, absolutely can't die before me."

Xiao Yan stood stunned. He shook his head and looked at Heine with an inexplicable expression.

"I will not give that order again! You are not me! You don't know the horror of being locked in a small space imagining the death of the most important person in your life! Picturing a million different ways in which you were killed! You have NO IDEA what that felt like!!!"