Chapter 0661

The boys let me have my space for much longer than I thought they would - for hours, really. I spend a long time in the bath, simmering and calming down before I begin to sort through my thoughts. Then, when I'm calm enough, I take each individual issue in turn, piece

by piece. In time, each of the thoughts takes a new route, becomes a plan.

Eventually I get up and towel off, wrapping the towel warm around me. But even then I don't leave, pulling myself up onto the wide marble counter and putting my feet in the sink, resting my head against the mirror as I turn my plans over more and more, trying to see the flaws in them, trying to ensure that I pick the best route.

The only interruption is a harsh knock at the door at least an hour in - probably more - before the entrance cracks open and someone sends a cold plate of tacos skittering across the floor. The demand is clear in the action - eat, damn it.

I smirk, but do as I'm bid, getting up and gathering the dish. But I take it right back to my spot and eat quietly as I continue to plot and ponder.

It's quite late, really, when I come out of the bathroom and head into the nook. The room is already dark, the boys in bed.

"Finally," Jesse grumbles, immediately getting up and moving immediately for the bathroom. "Others need this space too, you know."

it was before as I pick up the cadet handbook and carry it to my bed

I know

heading for my chest of drawers, pulling on

and immediately opens his arms for me. I sigh and let him wrap me

whisper, thinking of Luca and how he, too, abandoned me when he was upset. I hope quite desperately that I didn't do the same

my hair. "I was always ten feet away. I

pressing myself tighter to his side. "I just don't want

rolling me a bit so that

and stomach now, where I always end up sleeping and

me best.

happened," he whispers. Thanet

he

"Do you want to

was

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