Chapter 88

Alistair paused for a moment, and then nodded. Mentioning this seemed to cast a shadow over his demeanor.

"Caius's dad is Lavinia's elder brother, so technically, Caius and she are cousins."

Dorian snorted, "Seems like everyone's tripping over themselves to claim some family connection. Brother? With no blood ties? That's just wishful thinking. Miranda doesn't even pay attention to us, her real brothers. And he thinks he can just waltz in and be her brother?"

Dorian's words dripped with sarcasm.

"But she did call him brother, and she stood up for him," Alistair said with a blank expression. "She even stood up to us for him."

Though his face remained stoic, Alistair's voice betrayed a hint of dissatisfaction. He was intentionally passing this displeasure onto Dorian.

It was a feeling he hated. And no way was he going to deal with it alone.

Too bad Orion and Lysander were away at school. They wouldn't otherwise have escaped this.

Dorian clenched his fists and suddenly slammed the desk.

come back to the family.

up made Alistair feel a bit better. It seemed

was.

neither of them realized that the sister who once barely mattered to them

upset because Miranda called someone else

with the Hawke family. Even if they had wronged her in the past, she was still

them, acting like they

even claimed Bella isn't

different. We

seemed to grasp something, saying, "Miranda must be jealous of Bella." Alistair said nothing,

willing to share some of our affection with her. She

bathe family. We'll compensate

for the

hesitated; he then couldn't help but say, "I

few times he'd interacted with

knanda since her release,

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