Chapter 24-3

"Finn fears you may try to exert complete control over me," he looked at Finn, "which is something she cannot do, not to me." "Clean this up or she will face the consequences like everyone else. I don't care how she's marked you. I won't allow it anymore." With that Finn left us in the room. There was a promised threat carried in his tone. "So, I'm in trouble, aren't I?" Mikko's brows rose momentarily as if to say yes. "What did I do wrong?" "Nothing, he's just being a paranoid, old coot." "What happened that he's so afraid of?" My son started coughing from breathing in milk. I gently and slowly lifted him up into a sitting position and rubbed his little back as if I were holding a thin sheet of glass. Mikko was crouching down, ready to take the baby if he needed to. When Erik started crying again, I laid him back down to start feeding again. Mikko stayed in a crouching position beside me. "So what happened?" Mikko kept his eyes on hi