I stroll in, and she or he glances up on the sound of my footsteps. Our gazes meet, and a flurry of feelings flash in her eyes. Anger, warmth, mistrust. She doesn’t say something, but it surely’s all there to see if you know the way to learn her. And I do.

I don’t say something both, however she’s used to that by now. As a substitute, I simply put the bag on the desk in entrance of her.

“What’s this?” she asks, frowning.

I don’t reply, simply nod to the bag for her to open it.

She sighs, rolling her eyes earlier than opening the bag and peering inside. She sucks in a pointy breath as she sees the contents, and when she appears again up at me, her eyes are large.

“What is that this?” she asks once more. “What did you…”

“It’s the arms of everybody who touched you that night time,” I inform her merely. “I do know it received’t banish the darkness of what occurred—nothing can try this. However I believed it would assist to know that they’re in a good darker place now.”

My tone stays even, however I can inform from the best way Quinn leans again in her chair that she will get my which means.

Her grey eyes don’t transfer away from me as she stares at my face, clearly caught off guard by my actions. She licks her lips, however earlier than she will say something, Nico and Atlas stride into the kitchen, talking in quiet voices as they end up no matter dialog they had been having on the best way downstairs.

Atlas glances at Quinn’s bowl and nods approvingly. “Is there extra milk?” he asks, and Quinn simply nods again, clearly nonetheless perplexed.

Nico frowns at her and comes over to the desk.

“What’s this?” he asks, unknowingly echoing her query from a second in the past.

She doesn’t reply, and neither do I, so he friends down into the open bag himself. He reels again when he sees the contents, his eyes flicking between Quinn and me. Of the 2 of us, it’s most likely not arduous to find out who introduced a bag of arms into the home.

“What the fuck, Killian?” Nico grimaces. “On the desk?”

“What?” Atlas comes over and appears into the bag as effectively, then makes a disgusted face. “I didn’t suppose I used to be ever going to need to say that disembodied arms don’t belong within the kitchen, however right here we fucking are.”

“We eat at this desk,” Nico continues. “Who the fuck is aware of the place these arms have been?”

“Killian is aware of,” Atlas says. “Not that that makes it higher. I don’t suppose something goes to make ‘bag of arms for breakfast’ higher.”

“Do we have to have a chosen place in the home for miscellaneous physique elements?” Nico asks. “Is that this going to be a factor?”

“Please, no. I don’t suppose I can deal with that,” Atlas groans. “I’m all for chopping somebody’s arms off in the event that they deserve it, however can we depart them outdoors?”

I’m barely listening to them as they bitch about it, my focus solely on Quinn.

She appears like she’s making an attempt to course of this, and I can’t inform if she’s happy by the present or simply confused.

“Why?” she lastly asks, her voice mushy.

“I did what your father would have finished if he had recognized,” I inform her. “I gave them what they deserved.”

36

QUINN

I really feel rooted to my seat as Killian speaks, and I simply preserve looking at him, so thrown by this gesture. His phrases reverberate via my head, and I’m caught up in feelings that I can’t maintain again.

I swallow arduous, my eyes prickling with unshed tears.

It’s arduous to know how one can react to this. Nobody has ever introduced me a bag of fucking arms earlier than. If my father had recognized, he would have killed these males, and he would have made it painful, however he most likely wouldn’t have introduced me a trophy from it. There’s one thing about this gesture that’s uniquely Killian.

“I… thanks,” I lastly say.

It feels… I don’t know. Like perhaps not the fitting factor to say on this second, but it surely’s all I’ve acquired. I’m nonetheless pissed at him, however this goes a good distance towards softening me a bit in his route.

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