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Finn slowly stands, his posture defensive and his face hard as steel He doesn’t say a word

“You need to get over this, Ethan I understand that you’ve lost a lot because of ht club, another swanky house And one ain or I’ll tell him to stake you myself”

Finn givesnod

Ethan takes one step forward

I lock ether in anxiety and try to lares between the two of us and narrows his gaze The s out, while someone noisily opens and shuts the front door Rita saunters into the roo several empty spray bottles in her arms

“Uhtened tension

“No you’re not,” Delilah announces, rising from her seat She lets her eyes travel betweenas much as possible,” she says “It only ever ends in drama”

Ethan grudgingly agrees with his sister and Finn makes an obvious effort to calm down

“So I was going to show the to Ethan, Lucas and Delilah

“Yeah, good idea,” says Finn, before stalking out of the roo shut his bedroom door

“Don’tFinn’s ument that happened before she came in “Come on into the kitchen and I’ll show you how to kill theour research this ”

Intrigued, they file out after Rita and I drop back down onto the couch, letting out a long strea into the back garden, probably to test out the spray on the mists captured inside the shed

I go upstairs to take a shower, noting the steam on the tiles Finn must have just been in here I re his mark on me like I did to him The memory of his words makes me tremble

I’ to have to sort out et all befuddled, especially when he says things like that It feels like every little touch he givesThis is dangerous territory Living with Finn is causing what started out as begrudging attraction to turn into a full on crush

And don’t even get me started on Ethan My entire relationship with the va Looking at the history of my sad little love life as a whole, I haven’t had much luck When you live in a world of sorcerers and warlocks, vampires and dhamphirs, you don’t tend to have a lot of time to spend on matters of the heart