Jean texted: “That’s just the kind of person he is.”

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Dalton replied: “But I didn’t give up on him. Back then, I really thought he was pitiful… and I was afraid something bad might happen to him again. So I kept reaching out.”

Jean texted: “I really admire your persistence. If it were me, I wouldn’t have had that kind of patience.

Dalton responded: “Well, luckily, it ended up paying off. Your brother… eventually, he started acknowledging me a little. Then our relationship started to thaw, and things slowly improved. Sometimes we’d even go hiking together.”

Jean texted: “That couldn’t have been easy. Still can’t believe my brother actually wanted to be friends with you back then… that’s rare.”

Dalton replied: “It was rare. His personality at the time was already more or less the same as it is now. After the kidnapping, he changed a lot–he became cold, distant… like a wall you couldn’t get through. Maybe it was because I saved him once. Maybe he felt grateful. Honestly, I was really happy to be friends with him.”

Reading that, Jean couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.

Winston and Dalton… there had been a time when they understood each other–connected on some deep. unspoken level.

But now, all of that was gone. The two were like fire and ice, completely at odds.

had happened between

talking

kept pressing him, he finally told me about the kidnapping… I didn’t know anything at first, and he refused to say a word.

asked: “What

spending the night in the park and being escorted home by Dalton–he realized something. Not a single person in the entire family had noticed he’d been missing for an entire day and night.

just as cold; no one had paid him any

for Sienna–she wasn’t exactly cold–hearted, and she’d actually treated him decently–but her mind had

always came first. She would follow his lead without question, completely under his

had never liked his

known that for a long time. But Sienna couldn’t see it—she was still being spun

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vay

Even Is

after Winston got home, he saw

shut; it was

crack, Winston saw

the bed, his eyes

brow was furrowed instinctively, a trace of pain

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