"What if it's a brother? Will someone be left out, then?" Vivian was initially a tad embarrassed, but she forgot all about her embarrassment upon hearing Larry's remark.
"Yup! Well, both my brother and I are boys, so we can't get together." Larry nodded in fervent agreement as he spoke, looking exceedingly adorable.
"Haha..." Upon listening to his reasoning, both Vivian and Finnick burst out laughing.
Neither of them could quite figure out who he took after. It wasn't quite Finnick, for he wasn't as impish as Larry when he was young despite his brilliance.
However, it was obviously not Vivian either because she was even more slow-witted than him
when she was young.
"Come home with me later, Vivian." Finnick wanted to return to the home that belonged to them with Vivian.
In those few years without her, the house had been cold and quiet when I went home every night.
He had dismissed the two housemaids, so he was alone in the house every night. Since it was only him, he would merely cook something simple and scarf it down without really tasting it.
However, all that was nothing. Physical pain was far better than the mental anguish that had plagued him.
Every night, as he slept in the bed they had once shared in the past, he missed her beyond words.
But that was meaningless, for he had no idea how he could win her back at that time and could only bear it alone.
In time, this vicious circle made him abhor going back home. For that reason, he either spent the night at the office or in the bar as he felt much better with some people around him.
Recalling the torturous days he had spent in the past few years, he thought, Ah, life will be perfect with her at home!
Thus, he was eager to have Vivian return home and sleep with him.
"Hmm...” Vivian pondered for a moment, for she couldn't shake off the feeling that something was lacking although they had now gotten back together.
Nevertheless, she couldn't figure out what it was even after racking her brains for a long time, so she relented in the end.
"Okay."
The moment she assented, a wave of joy flooded Finnick, and he immediately planted a kiss on her cheek. Delight was written plainly on his face.
Knowing that he would get to stay the night with his father, Larry was ecstatic. He beamed from ear to ear.
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