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“And you’re only telling me this now? Why didn’t you offer me the pie this morning?
“Must have slipped my mind,” she said like it was no big thing.
“You should have mentioned that you had pie in your fridge,” I told her.
“I have pie in my fridge,” Athena said with a shrug. When I still gave her the stink eye, she tilted her head. “It’s a curious thing that you’re much more eager to discuss why I didn’t tell you about the pie than you are to actuallyeatthe pie.”
“Oh, I’ll eat the damn pie,” I said and went to locate it.
“Do you want me to warm it up for you?” Athena offered, but my stomach had heard the talk about food and was craving something right now. Shaking my head, I searched for a knife and cut a large piece that I gulped down. It wasn’t bad, and another piece followed.
“Since I’m not allowed to go for a run, would you mind telling me what Icando?” I asked Athena when I finished filling my stomach. Her answer had me groaning with frustration.
CHAPTER 12
Reflections
Athena
“I mean it.” I softened my firm tone with a smile.
Finn was still gaping at me.
“You asked what you could do and this is my answer.”
He leaned his head back, staring up at the ceiling. “But I don’t want to reflect on my time here, and writing it down as if I’m some student doing homework, is the last thing I want to do.”
Raising my eyebrows, I gave him a stern look. “Remember when we were in your room, and I was desperate to get out and get some fresh air?” I jabbed the spatula in the air, dropping chocolate dough in the process. “You ignored me because you were playing that awful violent game you liked so much.”
He frowned. “You were a hostage. I couldn’t just let you dictate what you wanted to do and when you wanted to do it.”
“Exactly! And now the roles are reversed.”
“Do you know how much I hated homework in school?” Finn asked.
I returned to my baking. “Nobody becomes a physician without doing a lot of studying. School can’t have been too bad for you.”
With a snort, he crossed his arms. “I hated school.”
“Then why did you become a doctor? There must have been shorter forms of education you could’ve chosen.”
“It’s my hero complex,” Finn said and walked around my living room, picking up things and putting them down again. “I like saving people.”
“So do I, and this is me helping you help yourself.”
“It was so weird to see Tristan today,” Finn said, out of context. “I mean it kind of blew me away how much he looked like me as a child.”
I transferred the dough from the bowl to the baking pan while Finn continued.
“Karina isn’t Tristan’s biological mother, is she?”
“No, his biological mother is Randa Christine.”
“How old is she? Could she be my mother too?”
I laughed. “No, not a chance.”
“Too young?”
