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moaned, nipping at her toast the way a bird might, one crumb at a time. Daniel felt Farley sitting at the table next to him, watching him watch Kayden. There was disapproval in her eyes- he could tell without even looking at her. When he lifted the spoon to his mouth, he found that there wasn’t actually anything on it. Kayden raised his eyebrows.
    “How long are you staying, Kayden?” Daniel asked, trying to keep the gravel out of his voice.
    “Eager to get rid of me, bro? You rushed back here so fast, I thought you were desperate to see me.”
    “I thought you were dying .”
    “So it’s okay to rush to my bedside when I’m shuffling loose the mortal coil, but when I’m fighting fit, I get shown the door?”
    “Exactly. History has a funny way of repeating itself.”
    ‘Huh.” Kayden’s smile faltered like a flickering light bulb. He lifted his spoon to his mouth and slowly chewed the contents, apparently more successful than Daniel at blind cereal fishing. “I know I don’t have to remind you that this is my home, too, right?”
    Farley squirmed in her chair next to Daniel, and he knew she was desperate to ask what he meant- why he thought he belonged here. Kayden smiled that seriously annoying smile, the one that curled up at the side of his mouth. “I own a quarter of this house, same as you, Cass and Grayson. And I kinda feel like sticking around for a while.”
    “Of course you do. I don’t suppose you’d consider letting me buy you out?”
    Kayden just chewed his food, staring blankly at Daniel. Farley shunted her chair closer to the huge wooden table where they ate their breakfast. “If it’s his house, then why can’t he stay?”
    Kayden gave her a surprised look. Daniel let a slow, smug smile curl over his lips. He knew the other boy would be the first to look away. Not that he appreciated how Kayden was now looking at his girlfriend instead. “I’m not saying he can’t. I just thought he’d have other things to do now he’s free from his responsibilities. You should do some travelling, Kay. I hear Alaska’s nice this time of year.”
    “Already been,” he replied, purposefully slurping his cereal and looking up over his bowl, unashamedly antagonistic.
    Anna scowled, swinging her disgusted expression from one to the other. She threw down the half-pecked-at piece of toast she’d been pinching delicately between her thumb and forefinger and blew out a loud, “ Ugh! ”
    “Are they always like this?” Farley muttered. Daniel shot her a look he hoped portrayed how wounded he was; she was supposed to be on his side. It was bad enough she hadn’t promised to stay away from Kayden. Now she was sitting on the fence, making sharp comments about the way he was acting. She had no idea who how unbelievably selfish this creep could be.
    Anna swallowed whatever was in her mouth and grimaced. “They’re usually worse. At least they’re not hitting each other. Although, a fight might fix how annoying it is having them both under the same roof. After they’ve beaten each other bloody, one of them usually leaves .”
    “Don’t worry, we’re not staying long,” Farley snapped. Her tone made Daniel turn to study her out of the corner of his eye. Her hair was pulled back into a messy bun on the top of her head, which was strange because she usually just let it fall free down her back. She was wearing a sweater, too, and it was seriously humid this morning. He discarded his spoon in the saccharine mulch that had been his breakfast, narrowing his eyes at her. “Are you okay?” he whispered.
    When she looked at him, it was impossible to miss the dark shadows beneath her eyes. There was a faint worry line across her forehead, which had been there since he’d dragged her out of her bed.
    “I’m just not feeling all that well,” she replied, chewing on her fingernail. It was then that he realized her own food was untouched.
    Anna rocked back on her chair, smiling scornfully. “Ahh, precious