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Whatever the security footage had captured, Maya’d been absolutely ferocious. 

The same aggressive energy Toby carried was perfectly mirrored back. 

They didn’t look like siblings at all. 

They looked more like Toby had raised her himself. 

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The moment they stepped out of the office, Maya came roaring back to life. She bounced twice on her heels. and threw herself at Annie, her gratitude so genuine it was almost startling. “Thank you so much, Annie!” 

She genuinely hadn’t expected Annie to actually step in when it mattered. 

Annie reached over and gave her soft hair an absentminded pat. “Don’t even worry about it.” 

She understood perfectly well how obligation worked. 

She had to, because Toby was a petty man at his core. 

If she’d accepted his gift and then stood there while his little sister got beaten up, he’d have made her life very unpleasant the moment he found out. 

Toby was the last to leave the office. Nobody knew what he’d discussed with the teacher, but when he finally wrapped up and looked up… 

He found his girlfriend and his little sister with their arms wrapped around each other. 

An inexplicable surge of fury hit him from nowhere. He wrenched them apart with one hand. “What are you two doing, all wrapped up in each other like that?” 

“My apologies, Toby. Maya’s just irresistibly sweet.” Annie offered the explanation in her gentlest voice. 

“None of your business!” Maya shot back. “You get to be all cozy with girls, so why can’t I?” 

Annie inhaled sharply. This kid is actually this bold? 

“What happened to those etiquette classes I enrolled you in?” Toby asked. “Is that really the vocabulary they taught you?” 

“I never went! You signed me up and I’m just supposed to show up? Says who?” 

Toby’s bafflement deepened visibly. “I enrolled you. Why on earth wouldn’t you go?” 

He’d pulled every string available to him just to find her a genuinely qualified instructor. 

She’d disliked the previous one, and he’d dutifully arranged a replacement. 

Why was she still not satisfied? 

“Fine, just you wait!” Maya pivoted immediately. “When I get home, I’m signing you up for Zumba! And you’d better show up and dance!” 

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“Me? Zumba?” 

The sheer absurdity of the exchange nearly cracked the composure right off his face. 

“Exactly,” Maya said. “I signed you up, so why wouldn’t you go? 

“You know all about deals, don’t you? So let’s make one. To keep things perfectly fair, on weekends I’ll take etiquette classes and you take Zumba. I’m absolutely certain you’ll become the finest dancer this family has ever produced.” 

Her voice brightened with anticipation and delight. “That way, we both have a spectacular future ahead of us! What do you say?” 

Toby had absolutely nothing to say to that. 

Maya finished hollering at him and pulled Jenny back toward the classroom to collect their bags. 

It was right at the end of the school day, and they’d burned so much time in that office that if they didn’t move fast, their mom was going to start worrying. 

Annie stood there with her jaw completely unhinged. She let out a small, dry laugh and turned to Alfred, who’d been utterly silent through all of it. “I didn’t see that coming. Is Toby this… animated around you two?” 

He’d never been anything like this in front of her. 

Sometimes, Annie was genuinely afraid of her boyfriend, even when he was being gentle with her. 

But that gentleness felt too constructed. 

It was like a perfect soap bubble, beautiful right up until the moment it burst. 

This flustered, exasperated version of him, though, was oddly reassuring in a way she hadn’t anticipated. 

The two siblings had been bickering right there in the office doorway, and students passing through the hall craned their necks with curiosity. What they caught was Maya and an impossibly handsome boy going at each other at full volume. 

After the two parted on decidedly unfriendly terms, Maya returned to the classroom, and someone pounced immediately. “That was the Clark heir, wasn’t it?” 

“What is he to you? How are you talking to him like that?” 

“He’s Maya’s brother, obviously.” Jenny shoved the boy out of the way. “Move.” 

“Sure he is.” The boy kept right on grinning. “I don’t buy that for a second. You two really love making things up.” 

Maya turned on him instantly, her expression going razor-sharp. “You want to get hit?” 

“Sorry!” The boy flinched so hard his whole body jerked. 

Terrified she’d actually follow through, he bolted. 

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Once Jenny finished packing her bag, she padded over to Maya’s seat with the most pitifully hopeful eyes she could manage. “Maya, can I hang out at your place today?” 

Their teacher had already called her mom, and going home meant getting an earful. 

Running away was cowardly. It was also effective. 

Jenny had decided she wasn’t going home tonight. Her mom was buried in work, and if she let a day slip by, the whole incident might simply fade from memory. 

“Of course!” Maya agreed without missing a beat, already buzzing with excitement. “Both my parents are home, and we can share a room tonight!” 

She’d never had a real sleepover with a friend before. 

The few times she’d shared a room with anyone, it hadn’t been with another girl. 

Besides Alfred, it’d mostly been Lawrence. 

Lawrence was the clingy sort, always pressing up against her and going on about feeling insecure or some other such nonsense. 

But whether it was her older brother or her younger one, neither of them compared to having an actual girlfriend to curl up with. 

The moment Jenny said it, Maya was already looking forward to a proper girls’ night. 

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