She and her father are in his study when James, their butler, announces the boys' arrival. Her father is grinning and saying its okay for them to come in before she can stop him. She tries to busy herself with the paperwork in front of her when they come in but her father admonishes her. Properly chastised, she looks up, blushing. She blinked in surprised before looking away.
She could've ignored the two if they were looking at her smugly and lustfully, much like Reid usually looked at his conquests. She could've easily pushed down her feelings that had been burning inside of her since she had left Ipswich if she had thought they had simply used her, if she simply was another girl to them.
It had been to easy to tell herself the two were simply infatuated with her and their affection had faded away with her maidenhead. Lies were easier to swallow when she told them to herself.
She was wrong. They were in front of her, Reid's bad posture even more pronounce, his shoulders caving around his chest almost protectively. Tyler's stance was the exact opposite: back straight, shoulders tense, he looked as if he was ready for a fight. And Jane wanted so badly to just give in but she had been so wrong to them. She didn't deserve them at all.
So she smiled and greeted them normally, as if they hadn't been her first and as if she had been expecting them (deep within her subconscious she had and had even dared to hope). She smiled even when she saw something break off and shrink in Reid's eyes, something that she would never admit matched something belonging to her chest. She smiled and said nothing out of the ordinary.
But when each boy took a turn to hug her, she let her smile drop and simply breathed them in.
And her father said nothing and watched, taking it all in. His smile matched hers and he understood. And it worried him but hadn't he always said no one boy in the world would be good enough for his daughter? But maybe, just maybe…
And then he's extending the invitation to stay in his home while the two are in New York, waving away Jane's protesting eyes.
TBC.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Covenant
A/N: Okay so I've written the ending for this fic and I'm pretty sure we won't venture into the thirties (Thank you, God!). Anyone interested in the saga, info about it is posted in my bio. Also, I recently posted a one-shot Chemically Inept, which takes place in the Chemistry-verse and basically describes how, despite how vehemently she tells Kate she never thinks about her boys in that way, she lied.