Three Rules

Rules? He made rules?

Is that what he had been thinking about all this time?

I was stunned into silence, and I didn’t know what to say. Taking my silence for acknowledgement, Hayden began informing me of the rules that he thought up for our meeting with Ethan.

“Sit down properly,” Hayden said as he motioned with his hand for me to take the seat close to him.

With a slight nod of my head, I did what he wanted and settled down onto a comfortable leather seat close to him. Suddenly, the atmosphere around us became even more tense than before and I found myself holding my breath as I waited for him to speak. I already knew that Hayden didn’t want me to meet Ethan; however, he had decided to respect my wishes and along with his brother’s encouragement, he had decided to let me join the meeting.

“The rules are simple. Firstly, you will not speak to Ethan unless I give you verbal permission to. In case you don’t understand what that means, let me further explain so we are clear. If Etha