“I like Nix,” I say to Bram. “She didn’t do anything to you. So quit giving her shit.” “It’s not me you have to worry about,” Bram says. “Her own cousins hate her fucking guts.” “Oh man, I wonder what that feels like?” Leo says. Dean laughs—still a relatively new sound, coming from him. “What kind of a dick hates his own cousin?” he says.