MIRO

Right from school, Theon had always been the odd one out and when he gets intense about something, others tend to leave. him alone which is why the moment he claimed Ryn, the others dispersed and walked away.

Then it was just us, standing amidst others but yet, it felt like we were the only ones in the room. I looked into my brother’s eyes and I could see the strain in them. The struggle between hate and recognition. I could tell that by just standing so still, he was fighting demons, and yet he had the calmest expression.

“Where’s your…girl?” I mindlinked him.

“In the bathroom.”

I nodded. “Are we good or am I going to get another beat down?

Theon sipped his drink. “I am me but not myself at the same time. Just don’t say things against Chelsea and I won’t get triggered.”

I nodded in understanding, and we both turned to look at the party. All around us, women of different sizes, color and ages, oogled at us, standing in groups and gushing to themselves as they gossiped amidst each other.

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This always happened everywhere we went and usually by now, I’d be flattered by their attention and scanning for whom to take home tonight but looking at them all, none of them excited me.

They all seemed like a blur of color with only one woman catching my focus.

Ryn.

When I found Ryn watching us across the hall, my heart skipped a beat. There was something in her gaze looked too much like desire, and I wondered.

Does Ryn feel what I feel too? Or am I just deluding myself?

a hunger that

Her eyes slid to my brother and the desire in her eyes turned sorrowful. I glanced at Theon and found him watching her too. Looking away, I smiled bitterly to myself.

how to pick women who will never belong with

a while and Ryn got

“Do what?”

claim Ryn that

“I am trying

know, but why?” I asked, cautiously. “Aren’t you supposed

furrowed in a way that showed that even he didn’t have

watch those guys prey on Ryn. We lived that life in high school and

us.” I replied, feeling defensive. “They

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make things right, brother, and seeing it happen in real time with Ryn made me realize

to get miffed. “We never sold lies

but we

frustrated. “What’s up with you? What’s all this talk and where is all

I’ve been thinking lately, maybe

blinked, not liking what

why haven’t you found your

anything wrong”

the kind that renders your helpless and at a loss for

random girls, giving you hope

as my eyes found Ryn easily across the room. Someone said something that made her smile and something

I have ever made her smile like

been able to deeply connect with

big lesson that you don’t play with a woman’s heart. Even though

Ryn is

eyes. “I don’t know. I

at her. “What makes you not think

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