She Took The House The Car And My Heart

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And because he was so “reasonable,” he never bent the rules for anyone.

“Mommy, can you come too?” Nina asked with a tentative glance.

Freya nodded and walked with her.

As it turned out, Nina hadn’t just fallen behind—she’d barely done a thing.

When Ellis saw she hadn’t even touched half her assignments, the air around him seemed to turn cold. He sat back with his legs crossed, his long fingers flipping through her pages. His lips formed a hard line, and he said nothing.

Nina hated when he went silent like that.

“Care to explain why you didn’t even finish your favorite subject, drawing?” Ellis asked, his voice low and unreadable. “You were the one who begged to take it up.”

“I was playing with Nick and Jerome,” Nina admitted quietly, staring down at her fingers.

when Nina’s eyes started to fill, and she

try,” Ellis said flatly, seeing right through her

to panic now

to see what else

quietly nearby, watching

was when Jesse walked

eyes lit

caught on immediately. His voice cut through the tension, deep and sure. “Not this time. No one’s getting

fault for not watching her. If someone needs to be punished, it should be me,”

eye on Nina every single day, hovering like a hawk. But once he saw how much genuine fun she was having, he just let

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lifted. I’ll sleep by myself from now on,” Jesse offered, his tone light and casual. “I won’t get in

for a long moment. So Jesse had been doing it deliberately this whole

Jesse pressed