{18} Placid

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{Aspen's POV}

4:00am

I'm exhausted but my brain wont let me sleep. My mind is blank and I feel numb. I decide that I need to do something, maybe tire myself out or get rid of the pounding headache I have. I get up from my bed and slowly go towards the door and open it. I look back and forth, making sure the hallway is clear and sneakily make my way down it. I heard my brothers go to sleep around 3:00am so I'm pretty sure the coast is clear.

I decide to go to my favorite place in this mansion, the second and smaller kitchen. Upon my arrival, I glance around and decide to really give my headache a run for its money by doing a very intricately designed apple pie. I'm not sure why I do this to myself, I could easily take a painkiller but right now the headache is all I can feel and in some messed up way, it brings me comfort. 

After putting my pie in the oven, I slump down against the kitchen counter so that I'm sitting on the floor

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After putting my pie in the oven, I slump down against the kitchen counter so that I'm sitting on the floor. I make a mental note of the time and to take the pie out in 45 minutes. I soon feel a presence beside me a look to see Caspian sitting on the floor with me. He doesn't seem like the type to ever sit on the floor, it's a strange sight. I turn to look back at the oven in front of me and release a sigh.

"Do I get to ask questions now?" I ask, not looking at him.

"You can ask, I cant promise answers." He replies.

"Everyone else is sleeping, what are you doing awake?" I begin my questioning.

"I'm the oldest brother and boss, I don't have the luxuries of sleeping whenever I want." He says emotionlessly.

"Boss of what?" I ask.

"The family business." I roll my eyes at his response.

"And what is that?" I look over to him and he is staring in front of him emotionlessly. "Does it have something to do with what happened earlier?" 

"Yes"

woah I actually got something.  

"I cant elaborate much further, it would only bring danger to you. Your brothers and myself own a.. company of sorts that isn't the most legal nor ethical." He responds.

"Jasper said he had some kind of mission in Canada where one of our brothers killed someone's daughter and he had targets to take out. What are you, assasins?" I ask nervously.

"When did he say this?" Caspian asks.

"He was talking to that Hudson guy, the one who ran us off the road." I reply.

"We are not assasins."

"Are you in a gang?" I press on.

"No." 

"Then what?" I'm starting to get irritated at this one sided conversation.

"I'm not going to tell you." I groan in annoyance at his response but turn back to look at him when a question pops in my mind. 

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