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Hoas he so calm?

“You’re just going to sit there and read?” I asked, half in disbelief

He glanced over at me and furrowed his brow “What should I do instead? I picked up pastries, and you’ll make coffee”

“You could at least pace nervously like a normal person”

His mouth twitched with aain “I a to worry about how —as it you called it?—soed to someone new”

Heh

“I understand it will be a shock for hie, “but he’ll come around We raised him to be compassionate toward his family, Kellan He wants me to be happy”

I didn’t doubt that It was the period before he accepted the reality that worried ether, side by side, and I knew him well I knew he’d come around eventually But I had some minor abandonment issues that I’d hid so well that nobody knew I had them

Cough

In short, I was ad to be disappointed that it was me And I wasn’t sure I could erase that memory once he settled down

“I think I’et here,” I said

“You do that, sweetheart Try to get him before he’s even taken off his jacket”

Noasme Wonderful

“I need a smoke,” I muttered

I headed out on the patio and made a mental reht spare my life in case Finn wanted to throw round twenty-one flights below us

I lit up my smoke and peered down there The as al where the brick ended, but Finn was pretty da He could toss me over

It was getting cold, even more so up here where the winds were ruthless

Finn had to be okay with us He had to

E her questions since they’d left for Ireland, and I was fairly certain she’d told my sister too Luna had stared atand if there was anything new going on in my life

Thankfully, she ay now too She and Colm had flown to Dublin for a few days to put flowers on Conn’s grave and to have CJ see his grandparents there

Done with arette, I exhaled toward the sky and put it out before I made my way back inside

Oh shite