I walked home slowly, through the winding streets of Alicante. The route from Aline's house to my own was as familiar to me as the back of my hand, I had walked it so many times. The moon was high in the sky and mixed with the demon towers it meant that it was far from dark.

Meeting Sebastian had been nice. He had been pleasant to talk to and I appreciated that he hadn't pushed for answers when I very obviously avoided his question about my parents.

My parents had been on a mission to put a stop to some amateur warlocks that had been trying to summon a greater demon. They managed to subdue the rogue warlocks but not before the demon had been summoned and my parents had been killed in the raid. The day that we were told had been the worst day of my life and since then, my older sister Gabrielle has looked after us all. We inherited our house and our parent's money after their deaths, so we were never at a loss for funds. But we would much rather have our parents back. It had been six months since we had lost them.

I didn't pass anyone else as I walked through Alicante and before I knew it, I was at my front door. I opened the door and was greeted with the sound of multiple voices that were coming from my kitchen.

"Is that you Hallie?" I heard my sister Gabrielle call.

"It's me" I responded and headed through the hallway to my kitchen. Sat at the kitchen table was my older brother and sister, Gabrielle and Ronan, and Jett. I didn't know Jett was going to be here tonight, but I was not complaining. He smiled at me as I sat down opposite of him.

My house wasn't as elegant as the Penhallow's, but it was extremely homey. Our kitchen was full of drawings and collections of items that myself and my three siblings had given my parents over the years.

"Is Aiden in bed?" I asked. Gabrielle nodded at me. She looked tired, the bags under her eyes looked prominent. Recently she seemed to be more run down and I could only assume it was because of the meetings that she had to attend. I wanted to offer to go for her, but you had to be eighteen to attend and she was the oldest which meant she was the head of the family. Ronan had offered many times as he is twenty, but she always refused.

"Have you been drinking?" Ronan asked as I smiled at him. His eyebrows were raised in a typical older brother way.

"How could you tell?" I replied.

"You have this look on your face, the same look you always get when you have been drinking. You forget who gave you your first alcohol drink Hallie" Ronan replied, earning a laugh from Jett. He and Jett had smuggled Aline and I our first shots years ago, and my night had ended with my head in a toilet. "You also stumbled as you walked through the door." Gabrielle joined in the laughter.

"I did not!" I retaliated. I'm sure that I hadn't, although now I couldn't tell. I could feel my face flushing as they all laughed at me.

"You did. Not what was the occasion for drinking?" Gabrielle asked.

"Does their need to be an occasion Gabi?" I asked and gestured at the glasses in front of Ronan and Jett and the empty bottles on the kitchen side.

"We don't need any excuse to drink little sister, we are twenty. You're seventeen" Ronan commented. I sighed at him and stuck my tongue out to which he mirrored my actions. Gabrielle rolled her eyes, whilst Jett watched us with a grin.

"Jia and Patrick were out at the meeting at the Gard, so the house was free. We weren't going to have much but then Aline's cousin Sebastian arrived, and we kept drinking with him. Until Aline all but passed out on the sofa" I laughed.

"I'm pretty sure Aline handles alcohol worse than you do Hallie" Ronan commented. Jett laughed loudly this time.

I snuck a glance at him. As usual he looked perfect. His messy brown hair was loose around his face. I knew that he and Ronan had had more than a couple of drinks as he had a gleam in his hazel eyes. He must have felt me looking at him because he looked up and met my eyes for only a second and smirked as he looked away, back to my brother. I swallowed. He knew exactly what he was doing to me. I always wanted to be near him, and when I had drunk anything, I wanted to be with him in every way. And he knew this. He was only in a loose t-shirt so I could see the deep ink of a rune crawling up his neck.

Gabrielle broke me out of my stare, thankfully before Ronan noticed. He was too busy finishing his drink to notice his sister and best friend giving each the kind of looks that they shouldn't.

"What does Sebastian look like?" She asked leaned forwards, her long butter blonde hair falling around her shoulders.

"Dark hair, dark eyes" I shrugged casually. "And he's extremely pale."

"That's a very vague description Hallie. But he sounds like a copy of Aline, so I'll just imagine her with shorter hair" Ronan laughed, and I couldn't help but chuckle at the image of my parabatai with Sebastian's hairstyle. It didn't make her resemble him, and it made me realise how unalike they really looked. They did both have dark eyes, dark hair and pale skin but that was where the similarities stopped. Sebastian was all sharp edges, and a tough personality but Aline was my parabatai. After knowing her for the majority of my life, I knew that although she was tough, she was also kind-hearted and fragile deep down. Sebastian did not strike me as even remotely fragile or delicate.

"Hallie?" Ronan said my name and I realised I had been staring at the wall whilst comparing my best friend to her cousin. How strange. "What are you thinking about. A certain best friend's cousin?" Ronan was only teasing but I immediately tensed up. I had been thinking about Sebastian, but definitely not in the way that Ronan was implying.

"Actually, about Aline with a boy's haircut. Much more interesting" I replied and shot Jett a brief look. He smiled at me, thankfully showing me that he didn't care about Ronan's comment. I didn't ever want him to question how I felt about him.

"I'm going to head up to bed now" I said, not liking how Ronan was smirking. He clearly thought that I was thinking about Sebastian, and he could not be more wrong.

"I'll walk up with you" Gabrielle said, and we stood up together. She was only an inch or two taller than me, and Ronan, Jett and Aline constantly told us that we looked alike, but I didn't see it. The blonde hair was a Farrose family trait although mine was lighter than Gabrielle's. All of my siblings had the same mint green eyes though. My mum's genes must have been strong because we inherited the colour from her.

Gabrielle and I walked up the stairs to my room. Our house was three stories, and the floor we were on held mine and Aiden's bedrooms, and upstairs were Gabrielle's, Ronan's and our parents old room.

Gabrielle stopped and faced me as I opened my bedroom door.

"You need to tell Ronan about the two of you" she said with a serious expression, although quietly.

"Gabi-"

"No Hallie. You're his little sister and Jett is his parabatai. He loves you both and lying is wrong. The longer you leave it, the more it will hurt him when he finds out and I know that you don't want to hurt him" Gabrielle cut me off and crossed her arms. "You're nearly an adult, and Jett is a grown up but you're behaving like children!"

Her words were making sense, and I had tried to convince Jett on multiple occasions to tell my brother, but it never seemed like the right time.

"I'll speak to Jett, okay? But the extra pressure from you doesn't help. I know that you have had this conversation with Jett as well" I replied and stepped into my bedroom. Gabrielle still continued speaking from behind me.

"I only did that because I don't want to see either of you get hurt."

"You just called me an adult Gabi, so let me make this adult decision on my own. Goodnight" I said and shut the door on her and twisted the lock.

That didn't help my point of being an adult, but I was sick of her pressuring me and Jett to tell Ronan. I did need to tell him but the idea of Ronan separating Jett and I killed me. I loved him more than anything. He and I had been together for nearly a year and I would never change anything about what we have. Dates in public would be nice and being able to tell people that he was my boyfriend instead of having to see girls shamelessly flirt with him would be amazing, but I would take what I could get; as long as I could have him.

I walked over to my lamp and turned it on before heading to the chest of drawers and rummaging through the many items of clothing.

There was a tapping on my window before the frame slid up and a figure crawled into my room. I knew it was Jett before he even looked at me. There was a trellis directly outside of my window and Jett had crawled up it many times to avoid Ronan.

He must have only been outside for a minute, but he already smelled like the night air. He pushed the window shut before turning to me. His hair was windblown, throwing the brown locks around his face and his t-shirt was rumpled. His eyes looked bright in the lamp light and they glowed the colour of almonds.

"Jett" I breathed. He was taller than me and his 6'0 frame towered over my 5'5 frame as he walked over to me. Before I could say anything else, one arm was around my waist pulling me up against him. He was warm despite the fact he had been outside. He placed his other hand on my cheek. I gazed up into his eyes, completely transfixed. No matter how many times I looked at him, I couldn't help but count myself lucky.

"You're drunk" he whispered and leaned down, capturing my lips gently with his. When he pulled away, I pouted at him.

"I am not. But you are" I replied, placing both of my hands on his cheeks.

"Let's call it even" he mumbled, and I felt the change of the mood in the room instantly. He smirked and I gazed at his full lips. The arm around my waist tightened around his lips were on mine again, but this time it wasn't gentle. Our mouths were battling against each other and his tongue traced my lip for entry. I opened my mouth eagerly and moved my hands to Jett's hair and pulled on the long strands. This earned me a groan from him, so I moved my body even closer to his. I could feel his flat stomach and my hand instantly moved under his shirt to run my hand over his abs.

Jett leaned into me, causing me to take a step back. I knew what he was doing as I took another step and felt the back of my legs hit my bed. I fell backwards onto the mattress and Jett stood over me. He quickly pulled his shirt over his head and I gazed up at him. I was so familiar with his body, but I never failed to be impressed by it. He quickly slid over me, and instantly his lips were on my neck. He kissed slowly at first, causing me to hum in approval. He knew that he was teasing me, but I didn't care. He finally bit down on my skin where my shoulder and neck met, and I couldn't help but moan. He never bit me harshly like this, but I couldn't deny that it felt good.

"Jett!" I cried and he moved his lips away from my neck and back up to my lips. "I'm not complaining but what if my brother sees?"

Jett chuckled at me and I couldn't help but frown in confusion.

"Tell your brother that you're seeing someone" he said.

"I don't want him to think I'm seeing anyone unless it's you" I retorted. Jett smiled widely at my words and resumed kissing me, moving back down my neck again. I needed to stop him before he made anymore marks but it was difficult to say no to him. He knew how to get to me. But he never left marks. As he kissed down my neck he spoke. He removed my shirt and bra before continuing.

"What-else-would-you-tell-him. His-parabatai-has-been-fucking-you-right-under-his-nose."

"Jett-"

"Hallie, he will kill me. I've mentioned that I've been seeing someone on and off to him and he typically wants to have guy talk about it. Can you imagine how awkward that is?" Jett said and suddenly his voice took on a lower tone.

"I could tell him that the girl I've been seeing loves it when I kiss under her ear" he said and did just that, causing me to shiver. I could feel his hand slowly crawling up my leg, going under my skirt.

"I could tell him that I've fucked her whilst he's been in the same house. In the next room" he whispered, his lips slowly grazing my cheek. His hand was so close to my underwear, but I tried not to show him that I was affected. He slowly slipped his hand under the waistband of my panties.

"I could also tell him that I know exactly how she likes to be fucked, and she loves it when I do this" he whispered so huskily that I practically started shaking and he entered two fingers inside of me causing me to gasp loudly. Slowly he started moving them and the feeling of desire in my stomach was overwhelming.

Jett moved his lips away from my cheek and looked down at me.

"But I can't tell him any of this Halston, because he is your older brother" Jett said and started moving his fingers faster. "I don't want to hear it again."

I only nodded at him and felt my eyes slowly start rolling upwards. And then he pulled his hand away.

"Jett-" I gasped, but he only moved off me for a moment to remove his trouser and boxers and to pull my skirt and underwear down, before realigning his body over mine and entering me. I gasped so loudly, not expecting him to have done that. His hands instantly found my hips and he moved quickly in and out of me, and I moved in time with him, the feeling in my stomach only growing. His lips were on mine again and he bit down.

This was so strange. He never bit me like this, and I knew that I would have marks in the morning. I could feel his nails on my hips, but I didn't care. Nothing could ruin this moment with him.

The feeling in my stomach was building up and becoming overwhelming and I couldn't help but moan his name over and over. He smirked devilishly as I opened my eyes to look up at him. His pupils were large in his hazel eyes.

"Jett, I'm going to-"
"Let go Hallie" he said and I let everything go, moaning his name and placing my face in the crook of his neck. He lasted only a second longer before collapsing next to me, whispering my name.

"I love you Hallie" he said, and pulled the quilt up over the both of us. We were both breathing heavily but I kissed him again, this time slowly. He reciprocated before we both collapsed against my pillows.

"I love you too" I whispered before curling into him and closing my eyes.