His Savior Was Never My Sister
“…a minor inconvenience. Protecting Miss Castellano is simply a duty. A means to maintain my position close to the family. Her infatuation is… tiresome, but useful. It keeps access to her sister unobstructed.”
The world had tilted, colors draining to shades of gray. Every sacrifice, every lingering touch I’d hallucinated meaning into, every life he’d saved—mine—was just maintenance. I was the inconvenient, infatuated obstacle between him and his true prize: my fragile, perfect, illegitimate half-sister.
Back in the study, my father was still staring, waiting for me to break, to rescind the third demand.
“I am being perfectly reasonable,” I said, the words ash in my mouth. “I don’t want anyth