“Lisette, since you brought it up, we’ll just be honest with you,” Horatio said, not bothering to sugarcoat it.
“Yeah, we’ve already moved your stuff into the smaller room. We thought you’d put up a fight, honestly. Didn’t expect you to go along with it so easily. That’s great!” He nodded, as if this was a perfectly reasonable arrangement.
Valerian chimed in, “From now on, you’ll have the small room. Horatio’s room will go to Callie. It’s not really fair for Horatio to squeeze in there, so you two are swapping.”
“Lisette, you’re so mature about all this,” Monty added, looking at her with what he probably thought was a proud, fatherly smile. “We should’ve checked with you first, though. You’re not upset, are you?”
Lisette just stood there. Upset? Was she even allowed to say she was upset? She wasn’t their real daughter. She knew that if she acted out of line, they’d just see her as ungrateful.
She forced a smile, though she felt sick inside. “Of course not. Why would I be upset? It makes sense for Callie to have the bigger room. I’m just grateful you all took me in at all. I mean, I’m adopted, having a small room is no big deal.”
She waited, hoping for a flicker of sympathy from any of them. But no one’s expression changed.
She hesitated, then pressed on, her voice soft and a little shaky, “Honestly, I’m the adopted one. I probably shouldn’t even be living here. If I’m causing problems, maybe I should just move out. I’m sorry, Dad, Horatio, Valerian, I didn’t mean to get in the way.”
Her eyes dropped to the floor, as if she really felt guilty. “If you’d known it’d be like this, maybe you wouldn’t have adopted me. Then things would be better for you and Callie.”
“Seriously, is being adopted your excuse for everything? For anything you want to do, you just blame it on that? It’s a pretty convenient excuse, honestly. Because no matter what, you’ll never be a real Jewell by blood.”
Callie lounged back, one eyebrow raised, her tone lazy but her eyes sharp as she stared Lisette down.
Lisette’s face went pale, stunned by Callie’s bluntness.
The rest of the family suddenly seemed to snap out of their guilt, looking at Lisette with new, uneasy eyes.
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Oh wrestling expert ey? So is this Khamzat Chimaev or Shavkat Rakhmonov? Because Khabib's would be too haram....
Oh no. Million is just mix of Conor McGregor, Islam Makhachev, Mike Tyson, Max Holloway, Anderson Silva... I bet he lands 5sec flying knees like Jorge Masvidal too. Oh nope, 1sec knees. And has faster left hooks than Alex Pereira. Definitely would win UFC championship in every weight division including women. Poor Zhang Weili....
Okay so.... Million is now from East. Arctic wolf from East, modified genetically so he can manage his own Instagram and probably also box like Mike Tyson and snapping left hooks like Alex Pereira....
This is starting to be the same twister of abilities as Cassandra Yates and Tiffany. But question is, why the hell Silas can't just open his mouth and tell Caliope that she's the one whom he has in his heart. He would prevent a lot of misunderstanding. Seems like despite capability of talking with modified arctic wolf, she's not like telepathic....
Oh no, so FL is again another hidden genius with both hemispheres working on hundreds... Ffffuuuu. Cassandra Yates and Tiffany were already enough, ughugh. And Tiffany was even more exaggerated than Cassandra....
That's weird, in the first chapters there was said that her bio parents and bros doteď on Caliope but then they adopted Lisette, but this chapter suddenly says otherwise. Did author forget what he wrote?...
I REALLLYYY REALLLYYYY REALLYYYYYY WANT TO SLAP THE 3 BROTHERS WHENEVER THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH !!! AND THEIR MOM !!!...
Why has this not been updated ?? there were 5 more chapters which was released and it has not been updated.. Please do update on regular basis......