A light chuckle passed his lips at her question. He was just as mischievous as any kid his age but it had yet to stir the darker blood he carried in his veins. “I just need to go into town to get a few things for one of the early performances. Hence why I’m out here, literally, risking my life.” The murders scared him but they peaked his curiosity more than he liked to admit. Which is why he had been willing to risk it but he honestly felt so much safer with the girl by his side.
Somehow, without his knowledge, she had become someone he trusted and someone he depended on. Finley had no idea why she had chosen to approach him but it never came off as odd since he was aware of his charming qualities. Something he could thank his upbringing for. An upbringing that he would someday find a blessing when he learned the real reason she had found and interest in him to begin with.
She remembered when she had first learned of him. Finding out that your father had another child was tough for anyone but finding out that there was someone out there who held half your blood and none of sin that came with it was even harder to swallow. At first had been furious at her father and his indiscretions, furious that he had tainted their line with a child not of her mother’s but as she channeled feelings she thought she’d lost long ago, the brunette remembered getting to her knees and thanking whatever force their had been that made it so Finley had never known their father.
Thankful that he didn’t know the darkness that came with the Black name, thankful that he hadn’t been robbed of innocence and broken to the point of no return all for a wretched father who might never have loved them at all, her father had always wanted a warrior not a daughter. As he spoke Amalie found the hints of her brother’s tone and the way his eyes danced with the same light Silas’ own held, they both looked and acted so alike. Amalie couldn’t say why she had been the one to receive the most of their father, but as she looked at his youthful features and the way he carried himself, no blood on his hands, Amalie was thankful that she had been the one to get the worst of it.
“You may call yourself devoted to the show,” Her Swedish accent moved between them as she walked along side of him, “I call your devotion stupidity in disguise, but I am interested to see what is more important than your life, or at least seems more important.”













