Lahat ng Kabanata ng He Slept With My Sister, When I Was Giving Birth: Kabanata 421 - Kabanata 430

AvaI told my mother I was fine with Thomas. No grudge, no drama. He’d been the least intrusive adult in my life for the past fifteen years, and even after he started doing the “partner” thing with Evelyn, he never got weird or tried to parent me. That made him tolerable. More than I could say for m

EvelynHe started pacing around her, slow at first, then faster. “Don’t think,” he said. “Move. Just move.”She tracked him with her body, every muscle tensed, like she was waiting for an attack. I recognized the tactic; it was old pack logic, straight out of the hierarchy training Catherine used to

EvelynThomas was sitting on the island, shirtless, both feet dangling off the side like a bored lifeguard. He held a bloody dish towel pressed to his chest.I pulled the light in closer, flicked on the under-cabinet LEDs, and started unwrapping the bandage.He didn’t react, not even when I caught a

EvelynRobin answered before the second ring. “What do you need?”I smiled, just a little, at the lack of preamble.“I need mercs,” I said. “Today.”He didn’t laugh. Didn’t ask if it was a joke or a cry for help. “How many?”I looked out the window, did the math. The main house, the lab, Thomas’s co

“I just—” I shook my head, because the words wouldn’t arrange themselves. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”She watched me, eyes bright, mouth twisted in a half-smile that made her look meaner than usual. “Is it the sex?” she asked, voice loud enough to echo off the cinderblocks. “Is he th