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Chapter Forty-One
Raven
“Is that the story breaking?” Rebel asks, coming into the lounge where the news is on.
“Yeah.” I read the scrolling banner across the bottom of the screen. Socialite and avid charity worker, Cordelia Deighton, found dead in her home of a suspected heart attack.
“Kinda boring.”
“But safer for everyone this way,” I point out, even though I agree with him.
“Baxter’s guys work fast. It’s only been two days.”
“I know,” I say. “I guess I have to tell Phoenix now.”
“How do you feel about that?”
“I don’t know. I’m kind of dreading it. She was her great-grandmother after all, and Nix doesn’t know the evil she’s responsible for.”
“But Cordelia did hurt her and I don’t think Nix will forget that so easily.”
“True.”
“Don’t forget, they read our cues too. So if we’re all upset then she’s going to feel confused and distressed and get upset herself. If we calmly tell her the facts…” I raise my brow at him. “Well, the version of the truth that we’ve decided to roll with anyway, then I think she’ll accept it and move on.”
“When did you get so wise? You sound like a parenting handbook.”
“I may have read one or two.”
“You can read?” I tease. He chucks a cushion at me and I laugh. “Come sit?”
I pat the seat next to me, and in typical Rebel fashion, the second he takes it he pulls me into his lap. I snuggle against his chest and let him wrap his strong arms around me.
“Hey,” I say softly.
“Erm, hey?”
“How are you doing?”
“I’m absolutely fine, princess,” he replies, kissing the top of my head.
“Are you sure?”
“Of course. Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” I sigh. “Ace came to see me when he got home. He apologised for freaking out, and I told him not to worry about it.”
“Yeah. I sort of understand why he was scared – I mean he’s not exactly an open book – but he really has nothing to worry about. I honestly don’t feel like anything has changed.”
“I feel like Thorn’s more distant. Jax too,” I confess.
“Or maybe they’re trying to give you some space...to process everything. Maybe they’re backing off a little to give Ace more of a chance to bond with Nix. And maybe, it’s all in your head. It’s gonna be hard to split your time between the five of us and Nix and still carve time for yourself. Chances are you just feel like you’ve not seen them as much.”
“I guess…”
“I think we’re all old enough and almost mature enough now to communicate our problems. So if they’re not coming to you and demanding more blowjobs or back rubs or whatever it is you do with them, leave it be and take some peace while you can have it.”
“Okay. That definitely didn’t come out of a parenting handbook. How’d you get so wise?”
