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There’d been a ti up to Mt Hennessy with hihed in sheer delight At the top, they’d sit on the edge, their feet hanging over the crevice a thousand feet below and they’d just … be In a rare moment of openness, she’d once told hi on her board and taking any double X diaed her indifference

"Come on," he coaxed "I’ll even yell into the crevice and ain Just for you"

Kenna s her up there last year They’d taken turns yelling the at the echoes They’d been so loud that so so bloody murder Hudson had responded to the call and been pissed to find two of his siblings screwing around

"Good ti her shoulder with his

Her shed "Maybe another tiaze "You look pretty done in, A"

Aidan felt Gray take a second, longer look at him as well "I’ a little "You’re as screwed up as I am and we all know it" She patted his cheek like he was the baby sister "You do know you don’t always have to take care ofcare of yourself"

With Gray still looking at hihtly on Kenna’s ponytail and bent a little to look right into her eyes so that she really heard him "I know I don’t have to take care of you I want to"

She sighed again, and he prepared for her to roll her eyes, but then she surprised hiht for a beat before pulling free

She wasn’t back on the touch train yet either

And then she was gone

"Shit," Gray said, staring at the door "She’s not getting any better"

"Yeah, but she’s not getting worse," Aidan said He took heart in that

The front door opened again, but it wasn’t Kenna co half a bagel and a to-go cup of coffee

Gray gave hiround his teeth

"Yes or no?" Gray demanded "You play, you pay"

"Shit," Hudson said, and looking pained, he kicked off his shoes, shoved the bagel into hishis coffee, he untucked his shirt He was leanly muscled, emphasis on the lean Without the shirt tucked in, his pants sagged down on his hips, revealing a strip of pink satin beneath