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His face bunched, his teeth grinding “You keep asking all of us to trust you without giving us the reason to do so”

“The reason is we are family!”

“Really?” he snapped “Really! Aunt Coraline was fucking family, too; she trusted you, too, and now she’s dead! And the story ere told doesn’t make sense to me or anyone else for that matter Not then, not a year later! Ever since Calliope came to our house, it has been like we are cursed Uncle Declan is so depressed he doesn’t speak any tube when he stopped fucking eating Darcy…sorry, Killian rarely ever shows his face around here This family has fallen to shit, and you never even blinked You just kept pressing on, as if everything is perfect And now she’s a little sick and you’re ready to fight? Where was all that energy before?”

Idiots

All of them

They were idiots who could never think beyond their own understanding They could not rationalize They could not see what I saw, and so they pissed all over everything every fucking time

“As always, little brother, your mind is not where I need it to be” I released his shirt, pushing him to the side so I could sit at her bedside

“She blinds you, Ethan I wish you could see what everyone else sees”

“Get out” I growl

He stood there

“I said, go before I suspect you poisoned her yourself”

Sighing and s and walked out of the rooone, I placed my hand beside her cheek

“Apparently, wethe hair froood with poisons?”

I waited for her witty co The ry with her for being in this position Angry at riest at the people who did this to her

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