You Are The Apple of My Eyes
Chapter 609 Noah Isn't Straight

The hotpot was boiling briskly, and a thin, fragrant mist floated in the air.

Henry looked blankly at the bubbling broth. His anxious heart strained inside of his chest. He picked up a peach and chewed on the fruit more than ten times to calm himself. He felt that he must have been overthinking things. There was no way that his brother wasn't straight.

"Noah, what did you ask?" Henry didn't want to make the question very direct. He just made sure that Noah would understand what he meant. Looking at Henry's inquisitive eyes, Noah was stunned. He suddenly stopped chewing the peach and realized what his brother was asking him. Noah quickly looked away and pretended to be calm. "I was just curious. I just wanted to know."

"Okay." Squinting his eyes, Henry didn't completely believe what he just heard. "Noah, are you not interested in women anymore?"

Noah thought for a while and said frankly, "I don't know. I have never met a woman who can make me fall in love again."

The only woman who had ever made him fall in love was already married and had children. He had moved on and now saw her as a sister.

Henry's eyes widened. Listening to Noah's answers seemed to confirm his fears. His heart felt even heavier than before.

It was hard for him to accept it.

If it were true, then the Ye family would not have any more descendants.

He had planned to wait for his brother to have children so that he could pass the Ye Group on to them, but he didn't expect that his brother wasn't straight as well.

Did he and Adrian influence him? If so, he knew that he would feel very sorry.

"Noah, slow down. Think about it." A little flustered, Henry asked again, "Are you really not interested in women?"

"I haven't met the one yet, so I still can't say for sure." In his heart, Noah didn't know if he was still interested in women or not.

Henry took a deep breath and tried to calm down. Maybe things were not that bad.

"Then, are you interested in men?" Henry asked.

This time, Noah didn't answer immediately. Vicente, who often quarreled with him, flashed through his mind and made him hesitate for a moment. "Actually, I don't know," Noah finally answered.

Henry frowned, still refusing to accept the possibility.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Henry reached out to grab Noah's wrist. "How about this? Do you get a strange feeling when I hold you like this?"

Noah lowered his eyes and answered, "No, of course not. You're my brother."

Speechless, Henry withdrew his hand. "Then how do you feel about other men? Do you think you'd get a strange feeling if another man held your wrist like that?"

This time, Noah answered quickly, "I don't know. There was no other man who held me like that."

"Then tell me about the very one. The one who made you hesitate just now." Henry approached him and asked in a low voice, "Do you have that kind of impulse to that person? Would you want to have sex with him?"

Noah was speechless and just glanced at him.

Those who worked in the police station were mostly men. It was common for them to use dirty humor to tease each other.

They were all rough men, not like Henry, who was refined like a scholar and had manners. It should be hard for him to say such explicit words.

He didn't expect him to say those words so easily.

When he saw that Noah didn't answer immediately, Henry took it as a yes. At that moment, his heart throbbed forcefully in his chest. Somehow, he wished that someone would just shoot him right then and there.

He was sure that his brother was born straight, but somehow he and Adrian had affected him. He felt that it was their fault and that their family was doomed. His brother wasn't straight indeed. "So, I am..."

Before Noah could finish his sentence, Henry covered his mouth with his hand. "No, I don't think so," he cut in. "Just take your time and think about it clearly. There's no need to rush into conclusions." Although Henry tried to calm his brother down, he couldn't do the same for himself.

He wondered if there really was no hope left for his brother to be straight.

Noah pulled his hand down and said, "We're far away from each other, so we keep in touch on WeChat. Occasionally he goes on a business trip nearby, and we get to see each other, but nothing is set in stone between us yet."

"Nothing?" Henry asked. He was grasping at every faint hope that it wasn't too late for his brother yet.

Noah answered, "Nothing."

Although there was nothing between the two of them, the feeling of talking and taking a stroll with Vicente was wonderful. For Noah, it was a feeling that no other man or woman could give. Everything between them was vague, but this feeling was very clear.

"You are straight. You are not gay. Trust me," Henry reassured him. Even having said that, he was only half relieved.

With a serious look, he explained, "Noah, spending a lot of time talking to someone will make you feel in love with that person. It's only normal, but don't be misled. You're not gay. Stop overthinking it. Get some rest first. I'll go to the kitchen now and help my mom."

Standing up, Henry patted Noah on the shoulder and turned off the heat under the hotpot.

He looked at Noah calmly before heading to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Gia and Adrian were almost done preparing the fruit platter and the side dishes for the hotpot. They were about to take them out when Henry suddenly entered.

"Shh!" Henry said to them. He then reached out to turn on the tap before pulling them closer to him.

With the sound of the flowing water as a cover, he said to them, "Bad news! Noah isn't straight!"

In his shock, Adrian almost stopped breathing. Gia had her mouth hanging open, unable to speak. Henry just looked back at them with a somber expression. Gia's hand trembled, and she almost knocked the fruit plate over.

She quickly put it aside and looked straight at him. "Hold on a minute. What happened?"

"I was chatting with Noah outside just now. He took the initiative to mention this kind of thing and asked me how to make sure he likes men. I talked with him for a while, and it seems he doesn't like any woman at the moment. However, there seems to be a man that he likes." With a sigh, Henry glanced at Adrian and added, "I really think I misled him unintentionally."

Seeing that he was flustered and remorseful, Adrian reached out and held him in his arms. "Are you sure about this? Didn't he like Nina before?"

"When it comes to being gay, some are inborn while some are acquired. The two of us are probably inborn, but Noah probably isn't. He is affected by the environment he grew up in."

Henry had mixed feelings and couldn't accept it.

Seeing her son's reaction, Gia said helplessly, "Now you understand how I felt when you came out of the closet."

In his heart, Henry did. He really did.

He was nervous, terrified, and uneasy. He couldn't accept it. He even blamed himself for leading his brother down this path. He was more worried and afraid that it wasn't going to be easy for his brother. This world is not tolerant to homosexuality, and people often are hostile to gay people.

"Mom, what should we do?" Henry asked, pleading to his mother for help.

However, Gia only looked back at them without saying a word.

It was a waste of time to ask her.

If there were a solution, his son would be holding a pretty girl now.

Henry and Adrian looked at each other helplessly.

It seemed that the question was in vain.