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KennedyLoving Anna Josephine is everything I thought it would be. More than I thought it would be.Because the Anna Josephine who snapped and sneered at me every week in my office has transformed into a girl who’s everything I knew she could be.Even more than I knew she could be.I know I said packing my clothes and bringing them here would be way too soon, but here, in bed, with Anna snuggled into my side and Riven pressed up against the back of her, it feels anything but soon.It feels like all roads led here, even if I didn’t know it before it happened.The whole town undoubtedly knows Anna is here, even if they didn’t even know where here was before now.Riven’s house will have been discussed and pointed out, questions raised over just what’s going on between the man they know makes a shit ton of money out of insurance, and the mouthy little gypsy girl they shake their head at in the street.But I don’t care.My job is the only string left holding me to any of their unwanted opi

I’m just grabbing myself a coffee when I feel the shiver in the air. It’s not cold. It’s different to that.A sixth sense. A shudder in my mind.And then I know. I sense him before I smell him, and smell him before I see him, a waft of weed hitting my nose from the dining room doorway.He props himself in the frame like he owns the place, hood up high so his eyes look even darker than usual.“Made me fucking come for it, didn’t you?”I play it cool, just like always. “Had no fucking credit on my phone, nor bus fare either.”He looks about the room and I hate how he ogles everything. “Landed on your feet here. Fucking some posh guy so I hear. Whole shitty town is talking about it, a silly old bitch directed me right to your door.”“I’m working here,” I tell him. “I’m fixing fences.”“Fixing fences and sucking dick,” he sneers. “Have you missed mine? I bet you fucking have, you filthy little bitch.”“Don’t flatter yourself,” I snap.“Shame,” he says and takes a step forward, “since you

AnnaI want to tell him but I can’t. Even now I can’t let them throw Margaretha in prison. He’s my brother. He was there for me when no one else was.My heart is breaking worse than Riven’s, even though I can’t show him. My heart is breaking because I know I can’t come back from this, because no matter how much Riven’s eyes say he wants to forgive me, I know he won’t.I know he can’t.I know he’ll never trust me again.I wish I could say I’m sorry, but I can’t. Even though I can’t bring myself to land my brother in the shit, I can’t bring myself to confess all this either.Riven’s glaring right at me as I hear Kennedy’s car pull onto the drive. I want the ground to swallow me up and never spit me out again, but I’m standing right here with nowhere to run and no one to turn to.Kennedy doesn’t even notice the destruction as he steps through the door. He sees me before Riven but he’s already got questions of his own.“Kevin Baker was asking directions to your house in town earlier, why?

RivenIt took me a few days before I sat Anna and Kennedy down and talked them through my great new vision for the future.I waited until the police visits stopped with such frequency and all Anna’s statements were taken. I didn’t take the file out of my car until we heard that Kevin Baker was in custody and the evidence was stacking up nicely.Fingerprints, text messages, a load of druggy mates who sold him out at the first sign of a police car at the door.He’s going down for it, that’s a certainty. He’d better hope it’s a long sentence – I’ll still be tempted to choke the life out of him if he’s ever unlucky enough to cross my path.So, there we had it. An arrest, a new furniture delivery and Kennedy’s official acceptance of his resignation, all in one day.It that’s not a good day to make life plans, I don’t know when else would be.They’d been nervous as I sat them down at the new dining table. Glancing at each other as I cleared my throat and flipped open the file.A charity ini

Paige was brazen, I had to give her that. After discovering her creeping around my house like a fucking cat burglar, I had to do something. The weight of her absence was taking its toll on everyone. My little sister from another mister especially, I hated the way Phoenix put on a show, trying to make everyone believe she was okay with Tel’annas’s absence. Phee had been through enough and I knew deep down this was just another person she believed had abandoned her.It angered me, how could someone claim to always be there for you and then just disappear, ghosting everyone that cared for them, ghosting me? I despised the way she made me feel. The gaping hole she left inside me was something unfamiliar to me. I’d never let myself catch feelings like this but something within her called to me. Like somehow Tel’annas Lennox was the other half to my already blackened soul.Storming back into my house I followed the crisp apple and cherry scent of Tel’annas’s perfume down the hall, I could