Karla closed her mouth, but her eyes were blazing with something....anger, defensiveness, desperation, some combination of all three."Your brother," Victor continued, his dark eyes, eyes that Karla had inherited and that now looked at her with unmistakable disappointment, "has made it very clear that if you continue to contact Lyra, if you continue to interfere in her life, there will be consequences. Serious consequences.""But Father, I was only....""Karla," Victor said, and his voice dropped lower, became more dangerous. "You crossed a line today. A line that I did not think you would be foolish enough to cross."Karla's chin lifted slightly, a gesture of defiance that she couldn't quite suppress."What line?" she asked, her voice tight. "I called my sister. Is that not allowed?""No," Victor said simply. "It's not. Not when you called her with the specific intention of manipulating her. Not when you called her to undermine her relationship with your brother. Not when you called
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