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“Have you told her?” He asks quietly as his boys run across the grounds, racing each other.

“No.”

“I take it she still isn’t talking to you, then?”

“No.”

He nods. “Remind me, why haven’t you told her? That dickhead is dead. She has no tie to anyone, she’s yours to claim.”

“It’s complicated.” I mutter

“I get that, but….” He pauses. “You wouldn’t be able to hide it if she hadn’t been bound. Or