Alaric was dumbfounded.He studied Cassandra in silence, his steady gaze locked on her, searching for something beneath the calm surface she presented so carefully. At first, he could not understand how she could sit there, composed, accepting everything as if nothing was wrong.Then, slowly, it began to make sense.Sinclair had stripped her of confidence piece by piece, and long before that, her own family had already planted the foundation. Aurelia had always been the better one. The prettier one. The smarter one. The one who took over responsibilities and the family business while Cassandra stood quietly in the background, loving them enough not to question anything.Cassandra had never been taught to doubt them.So even now, when she and her sick daughter were pushed to the far end of the hall under the excuse of protecting a newborn, she accepted it without protest. The logic was flawed, almost insulting, yet she sat there as if it were reasonable.Alaric’s jaw tightened slightly
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