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"Well… no… that’s not what…" I stahtened my shoulders "After you lost Elise you almost-"

"Don’t talk toto help you! I don’t knohy you’re so angry with hed darkly

"How do you want me to help? What do you want me to do?" I shouted at him, frustrated

"I want you to-" He looked pained and surprisingly vulnerable, but he stopped and shook his head His face fell, and he sat heavily back on the bed "I don’t want anything froht stand,The tone was faust It was Jack calling, and since I didn’t really have anything helpful to tell hi to answer that?" Peter asked

"Not right now I’?" he asked pointedly after the ringing stopped

"You ave him a harsh look, but he stared back at me, unaffected

"Yeah, I do," he nodded "If I had called you before, you would’ve answered noIt just seems odd to me that if you’re bonded-"

"That I’ for myself?" I raised an eyebrow "Yeah, I still can And I did with you too, otherwise I never would’ve been able to be with Jack" His eyes flashed hard again "But I thought you said eren’t really bonded anyway"

"I don’t knohat to think"

"Why did you co to really talk to him "If it wasn’t because of what happened-"

"Of course it was because of what happened," he sighed "Of course it was because of you" He looked back up at me, his eyes uncertain and exposed "Is that what you want to hear?"

"I don’t want anything fro with you has always been so coh his dark hair, which looked aly silky after the shower

He chewed his lip and stared off at my empty bed He would’ve said ain, and I had to do so about it If Jack called repeatedly in a short ti rong Either way, I didn’t feel right about just letting it ring

"I should get that"

"Don’t let one stony