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13. Finn

I'm trying. Fuck knows what I'm getting right or wrong though. Holding her sobbing, exhausted little frame against me in the dark was right.

Trying to do the same in the daylight, she recoiled.

Plus it turns out that staring at her is my weakness. I can’t help it.

She's grieving, lost in the dark. My urge to reach out and hold her isn't what she wants. I’ve been in that place before. So have my parents. Life made both of them retreat into themselves. It’s so tempting for me to follow the same path and back away from her. But I want to make this bond work.

Getting to know Rami has been wild. Compared to the tea-party holding cousins with their pretty dresses and dollies he’s a whirling tornado. I think he’s fascinating.

His mother even more so.

Especially when Naomi changes out of my shirt into baggy black workout gear. Stood at the back of my house, where she thinks none of us can see, the blackness in her spirit lifts, replaced by a grey, bland nothing. She goes through
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That’s kind of a dick move from Cillian knowing he’s her mate. Even if they aren’t close yet, insinuating her family is enough was a low blow.
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