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“This is so fucking out of order,” he snaps and I nod because it is.

“I’m sorry,” I say, which is the truth of it. “I was in a corner. I was trying to do the right thing.”

“The right thing would have been to book her into a fucking hotel, Kennedy. The right thing would have been to let me know you’re using my fucking house as emergency accommodation. The right thing would have been to fucking tell me you found her in the fucking first place.”

I nod through all of it. Yes, yes and more yes.

I feel like a fucking idiot, more off the rails than even I fully realised.

“It isn’t his fault,” Anna offers and her simple defence makes my heart pang.

“It is my fault,” I counter. “This was my decision, Anna didn’t ask to come here.”

“The crow’s your fault,” Anna tells Riven and I will her to shut up before she talks herself into a bigger hole than we’re in already. “You need to fix your fucking fence. It’s dangerous.”

It’s a three way stand-off, all of us staring and nobody speaking a word.

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