Chapter Twenty-Five

*Leah’s POV*

The way they recognized each other felt like a damn stab in my own heart. Of all people she could have met in the other world, it was my sister, Maya. I didn’t think she goes that way – liking women.

I had never regretted my decisions in all my life. This was the first I regretted it. But I didn’t know, did I? I did not know that they knew each other, that they were lovers then. Of course I wouldn’t know anything that goes on with my sister’s life at all. She has her own life as an apprentice of the witch, and I had mine as the now-successor of the Faramis family after she left to live on her own a few years back. All her responsibility as an older sister was passed down onto me. All the difficult trainings, the wounds and the broken bones I had, all the pressure that my father gave, all of the responsibilities. But now I wasn’t complaining. Without those trainings, I wouldn’t be this good now. I wouldn’t have met Selina who I, might I clichéd-ly add, that I have liked t