Hearing the front door open,. I get a whiff of Rylands scent before hearing him trying to calm Orion down. I grab my coffee heading out the back away from them.
I sit at the table and chairs on the back varandar before seeing Orion's smokes sitting on the table. I grab one lighting it, enjoying the burning sensation in the back of my throat. I haven't smoked since just before I found out I was pregnant with Mara. I must admit I did miss smoking, as stupid as that seemed.
Nothing better than a coffee and a smoke first thing in the morning. The arguing inside stopped, the house falling silent when I heard a car start before leaving. The laundry door opens and I scramble to put my smoke out.
"Don't make it a habit" I hear Ryland say and I sit back.
"I thought you were Orion," I told him. Knowing Orion loved giving me lectures about smoking.
He sits in the chair across from me with his own coffee in his hand. I light my smoke again.
"Who left?" I ask him, putting my feet on my chair.
"Orion" he answers. I nod before drawing back on my smoke.
"God I hate seeing you smoke" he says looking at me.
"Don't you start, not like it is going to kill me" I tell him.
"No, it won't but doesn't mean I like seeing you do it"
"It's one" I tell him.
"And tomorrow it will be a packet," he says.
"Feel free to leave, I didn't ask you to watch me"
" No, I thought you were doing a runner," he says, sipping his coffee.
"No point you would find me anyway" I tell him.
I finish my smoke before hopping up and heading inside. Thaddeus was washing dishes, it was an odd sight to see, not that he didn't do housework, but he usually did what he calls the more manly jobs.
"He went to get Mara?" I ask him.
"No mum would probably beat his ass if he tried to take her," he says, grabbing another plate and washing it.
"Grab a tea towel" he says. I grab one, handing him my cup before starting to dry what he washed already. We did the dishes in silence but it wasn't awkward though, I could tell he was itching to say something.
"When Orion comes back we need to talk about something else" he finally says.
"Why can't you say something now?" I ask him. Not wanting to deal with Orion becoming a moody ass again. Thaddeus says nothing, just continues cleaning the kitchen.
I walk upstairs flopping on the bed, considering I wanted to leave it before, I now found it relaxing because it was filled with their scents. I eventually doze off only to wake when someone sits next to my head shaking my shoulder.
I look up and see Ryland. "A little hungover?" He asks.
"No" I tell him, rolling to face the other way, though I did have a headache but I think that's from arguing with them.
"Come on, hop up Orion is home"
"So?" I ask, snuggling under the blanket.
"Thaddeus wants you downstairs"
"And he is not my keeper" I retorted, annoyed they won't just leave me alone.
"Fine, I will go tell him you said that"
"Fine, can you pull the blind down on your way out?" I told him. He ignores me walking out of the room. I pull the pillow over my head, drowning out the light.
I hear someone walk into the room, before I feel the blanket ripped away. A hand wraps around my ankle before I am ripped off the bed.
"I sent Ryland to get you, and what did you say?" He asks while he holds me off the ground by my ankle, my hair touching the floor as I dangle upside down.
He jiggles me like a tea bag. "Stop, you will make me puke" I tell him.
"Why didn't you come downstairs?" He asks.
"Put me down," I tell him.clawing at the carpet with my hands trying to get away. He tosses me before catching me, my face now in his crotch. "Thaddeus!"
"Evelyn!" He says back.
I grip his pants trying to turn upright.
"Must say you have a lovely ass" he says before I hear him growl and he bites it. I buck.
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