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"Maybe," Do your breath, because I don’t need it"

"We disagree," Dia said "You always drank, but it’s worse now"

"Leave it the fuck alone, Dia"

She started to argue but Tess cut her off "Let’s just drop it So, yeah, he drinks Whatever At least he’s notaround with Molly anyled theing through hi to sta it how it sounded, but he stopped her "Justshut the fuck up, Tess Talk about so about before I interrupted"

"We were re Cared the subject "Sharing some of our favorite memories of Dad"

"Well, then, continue," he responded, opening his bottle of water to take a drink It was cold and went down smooth, none of the burn or warhter as they shared stories and traded playful jabs Haven seehed, but she didn’t contribute much to the conversation He yearned to hear her voice and listen to her stories, to knohat she had done off on her own He wanted to know everything, a twinge of jealousy brewing deep within hiht about how much heabout

He didn’t like that shit one bit

Celia joined the a few more stories of her own Every now and then Haven would peek at Carirl he reave Car out that door in Durante

Maybe they had a chance Maybe she could forgive hi," Dolanced around at everyone, his eyes locking with Carain We need to get togetherhappens"

Everyone ood-byes,out Dia departed right afterward, scurrying away to leave Haven and Car at each other, the air between the thick with unspoken questions

"Do you, uh" he started, unsure of what to say "Fuck, I don’t know Do you wanna get coffee or sohed "I don’t know about other people, but it sounds nice to ain, queasiness stirring in the pit of his sto and ruin any chance he had at fixing things

He held his hand out to her but she si hi it in his pocket when she didn’t take it "You don’t have to I just thought, wellChrist, why is this so fucking aard?"

"I don’t know," she said as she stood "I ht? And it’s not that I don’t want to hold your hand, but you’re injured and I don’t want to hurt you"

"Oh" He pulled his hand back out to look at it "You aren’t gonna hurt me"

She bit her bottom lip nervously as she offered her hand to Carers together and squeezing gently Pain shot through his wrist and he winced, his hand clearly not fine despite what he had said

"How bad is it?" Haven asked "Honestly"

"I don’t know," he e "The o to the hospital"

Haven surveyed his hand The back of it was red and she pressed her fingers to the skin, sighing when he grimaced "It’s infected"

"How do you know?"

"Seriously?" She raised her eyebrows at Carot hurt a lot in Blackburn and weren’t allowed to see doctors, so we learned to watch for the signs I’ve seen people die from wounds less severe than this"

"Oh," he said, looking at his hand "Can’t I just soak it in peroxide? Get so their fingers together once o to the doctor Please?"

He sighed, resigned and partly annoyed that she kne to get to hi please "I’ll ht now I have a, uhwhatever this is A date, I guess"

A small smile curved Haven’s lips at those words

They headed around the side of the house to avoid seeing anyone as they left, because Caruised as sy his head down but acutely aware of everything going on around them It didn’t matter what Corrado had said--he couldn’t stop his paranoia Salvatore was still out there, somewhere, and until he was sure that was dealt with, there was no way he would be able to relax

Caro of her when they reached his house and unlocked the front door She stepped inside, her eyes darting around curiously It didn’t escape Cared at the utterroo out the areas on the first floor "The roo rooht now it’s just full of boxes I never bothered to unpack everything"