"Riven, I swear to god if you dare to cross this boundary you will not be alive until next morning," I say bossily, tucking the blankets up as I settle down on my side of the bed.

  "Chill doc, I won’t cross the boundary… unless you want me to," he teases.

  This flirty, cocky psycho. I give him a mock sweet smile. "No thank you, Riven, I don’t want you to cross it so better stay on your side or else you will find your pitiful ass six feet under the ground, understood?"

  He raises his hands In surrender “whatever you say pretty shrink.”

  I settle in bed giving him my back as I try to sleep.

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  Ugh. Its 3:30 am and this dumbass is sleeping peacefully but at what cost? His snores are so fucking loud, louder than a damn elephant. I tried plugging my ears close, tried covering my head with a pillow but all in vain. You know what ? I’m going to push this fuckface down the bed . Serves him right for ruining my sleep.

  I reach over to push him. But before I could do so, I feel a firm grip on my wrist and then he turns a cocky smirk plastered on his face. Not that I can see in the dark but I know for a fact that its there. “Well…look who’s crossing the boundary after threatening to kill me if I did?”

  “Weren’t you asleep?”

  “Nope I was fully awake this entire while and to explain those snores, meh those were just there to piss you off. I was having quite the time of my life watching you toss and turn. It was kind of hard to control my laugh while you plugged your ears but genuinely, it was worth it”

  I grit my teeth controlling the urge to slap that smirk off his face. “I was about to push you off the bed Riven.”

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  “Would love to see you try Inez.”

  “I shouldn’t have had came here in the first place. For gods sake, shut up already.”

  He shrugs “ok damn, was just trying to have a chat but ok. Try not to dream of me.”

  “You didn’t even let me sleep.”

  “And so I didn’t.”

  We both stay silent for a while. I don’t pay attention to whats he’s doing. Closing my eyes I try to sleep but am interrupted by his voice. “I’m scared…”

  “What?”

  “I’m scared to see my dad tomorrow.”

  His confession catches me by surprise but I reply to it nevertheless, “Why? You even told me before that you were scared about this what’s the problem?”

  And again, theres that haunted look I have seen in his eyes so many times—and I hate it every time.

  “He despises me”

  Well that’s news. I mean looking at Riven its quite predictable he had a rough childhood, but I never really knew the extents of his trauma. How can I when he runs around wearing a mask of cockiness and bravado?

  In an attempt of comfort, I reply “you’re his only son, he doesn’t hate you no matter what you did. He can’t hate you. You’re going to be alright tomorrow. Don’t think too much about it, just focus on getting some sleep.”

  Riven lets out a humourless chuckle “You really think he doesn’t want me dead? Even after what I did?”

  Fuck, I hate it so much when he falls into this loop of self-hatred. I fucking hate it so much. “Listen Riven, I don’t know what you did but no matter what, he cant hate you. He is your dad after all isn’t he ?”

  He looks at me—really looks at me. Gosh I wish I could somehow take all that self-loathing away from his gaze.

  “Hate to be the kill joy Inez but…he does hate me. He would rather want me dead. After all, I was the reason my mom died, wasn’t I? I was the misfortune that fell upon him when I was born. That’s how he likes to put it. No matter what you say Inez, you can’t change the face that I was the reason my mom jumped off a building five years ago…”