A False Heiress's Guide to Love and Power

Chapter 207

The two brothers rushed over. Alessia stepped aside to make room, but in the next instant, they surrounded her instead.

“Lessie, are you okay?”

“What happened to your hand?”

Their questions came at her one after another, so quickly that Alessia couldn’t even process them. She glanced down at the purplish bruise on her hand–the result of blocking the volleyball Ileana had hurled at her in the last play.

She pointed at Ileana, a little stunned. “She hit me with the ball.”

For some reason, her voice held a hint of wounded innocence, soft and pitiful enough to tug at anyone’s heartstrings.

Ethan gently ruffled her hair and pulled her behind him, shielding her from the others. Liam, meanwhile, examined her injury with careful hands.

“Does it hurt? We should get an X–ray at the hospital, just in case. You might have fractured something.”

Alessia shook her head. “It doesn’t hurt. It’s not that bad.”

“No,” Liam insisted, his tone stern. “We’re going.”

“But-” Alessia protested softly.

could say more, Ileana’s incredulous voice cut through the

looked at Ethan, eyes wide and desperate, but he cut

me that. I have only one sister, and her name is Alessia.” His words were icy, and though his face was unreadable, there was a trace of disappointment in his eyes as he looked at

but he’d always had a special soft spot for this little sister. Seventeen years of care, of protecting her, and yet she’d grown up to be so cold and

stranger.

Ileana pointed at her own

you looked at my sister’s hand?”

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bruised!”

her voice cracking, but it only made

any sympathy; in fact, everyone instinctively took a

never hurt someone without a reason,” Ethan said flatly. “Maybe take

that, he took Alessia away, leaving

frozen on the spot. This wasn’t how it was supposed to

like always. So why–why were they taking Alessia’s side? What had Alessia

not

the floor, tears streaming down her face,

been hers: the Morton family, the Tate family, all of it. Alessia… Alessia should