Irish Deception

Chapter Fifty

Finn

For the past two days Stasia has point blank avoided us and she hasn't even attempted to make it look like she hasn't been. Nope anytime one of us with enter the room she's in she'll quite literally scurry out as quickly as she can avoiding any and all eye contact with us.

Hugh thinks we should give her the space to breathe, Blake is still losing his mind and is avoiding her as much as she is him, and well as for Cian he's gone back to being socially inept with his head buried in his sketchpad leaving it to me to ensure she doesn't completely shut herself away.

First point of call is to get her to come down for breakfast.

Knocking on her door I wait a few minutes until it finally swings open and she appears, her eyes bloodshot and puffy, hair a mess and still with that fucking ring on her finger.

I barely let my gaze flicker to it before I'm looking directly at her with as much of a smile as I can muster as I say "Morning beautiful"

"Morning" she replies with a smile which is so fucking good to see.

Taking her hand I pull her out of the bedroom and down the hall with me not giving any care for her objections.

"Finn what are you doing!" She hisses dragging her feet along.

"We're having breakfast and then we're going to cause some trouble" I say waggling my brows at her.

"What kind of trouble?" She asks clearly hesitant.

"The kind that'll make Hugh have that eye twitching thing" I chuckle back and that causes her to stop resisting me as much as we head down the stairs.

Well she stops resisting until we get into the kitchen and she sees the others sitting there, then I feel her tug on my hand as if she's wanting to back out again.

I don't let her though.

Instead I keep my hold on her hand tight fully prepared to drag her in if I have to.

"Morning" she mumbles quietly quite literally shrinking under everyone's gaze being on her which isn't like her at all.

She takes her usual spot between me and Cian, obviously averting her gaze away from Blake like she can't bring herself to look at him.

"Did you sleep well Anastasia?" Hugh asks and she genuinely seems shocked that he's the first to speak to her as her eyes snap up to him.

She shrugs and bites down on her lip before she replies. "Yeah I guess"

She's slept alone for last couple of nights which isn't usual for her at all. She always sleeps with me and Cian or with Blake but she's chosen to shut herself away in her room with her door locked and that has to come to an end.

We all need to get back to normal because it's obvious nothing has been that way the last few days and I guarantee that's a main contributor to her shutting herself away.

If Hugh is right and she's still thinking about Irvin, her head back there with him then none of this is going to have helped that's for sure.

After sitting in complete silence eating I decide to break it unable to stand it for any longer.

"We're heading over to the cliffs today" I announce and it peaks her interest straight away.

"The cliffs?" She asks, her brows pinching together.

"Yeah Hugh brought us back here one year and we went cliff diving you'll love it" Cian replies finally pulling his attention away from his sketchpad and clearly on board with my plan.