Chapter 24

ISHMAEL

I watched the scene unraveling before me, not knowing whether to interfere or keep quiet. I got where every single emotion was coming from.

They all cared about Nathaniel, and that made their emotions fly all over the place. Aiden especially.

During the brief times that I had witnessed Aiden and Alan's interactions with Nathaniel, I saw how deeply they cared for Nathaniel. If they could give their lives for their brother, they would. That was how deep their loyalty to one another ran.

As someone who they looked up to, seeing him lying helplessly on a hospital bed was something they weren't used to.

I understood Ayra's point of view, too. She lived with Nathaniel, and if I wasn't wrong, they shared the same bed. They couldn't have that type of closeness without caring for each other. It sounded a little farfetched to me that she'd poison him, or whatever the younger Blacks said she did.

Sandra, on the other hand, I wasn't too sure of. The way she