Ulysses’s face darkened instantly.
What Calliope meant was obvious—she was pretty much saying they weren’t her real family, and she wanted to have Christmas Eve dinner with someone else.
Just now, she’d made it clear Quentin and the others were more important. Now she was doubling down, saying she’d only spend Christmas Eve with them?
“Aren’t we your family too?” Ulysses followed Calliope, unwilling to give up.
“To me, ‘family’ means the people who actually care about me,” Calliope replied, her tone calm but firm. “People who hurt me, judge me, dislike me, or try to use me, they’re not real family. And honestly? I don’t need family like that.”
As she finished, the elevator doors slid open. Calliope walked in without looking back.
Franco hurried in after her, nodding emphatically. “My boss is right. You gotta choose your family, just like you’d pick friends. Blood isn’t everything.”
Ulysses tried to follow, but Valerian grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
Valerian’s face was stone-cold. “Forget it. Don’t say another word. She’s stubborn as a mule. She’s not going to listen to us, no matter what.”
Ulysses let out a heavy sigh, a pit of worry growing in his chest. He felt Calliope slipping away from them more and more each passing moment.
“Valerian, do you think we might’ve messed up?” he asked, uncertainty creeping into his voice.
He’d always disliked Calliope, convinced she was scheming against Lisette. But looking back, he realized she’d never really done anything wrong. She’d just kept quiet, accepting whatever the Jewell family threw at her.
Lisette was always the loud one, always making a scene, so they’d assumed Lisette was the one being mistreated. But maybe… maybe that wasn’t true.
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Ulysses felt.
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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......