Gamma Kira's expression softened slightly, though her eyes still flashed with warning as she glared at Vivian and her mother. With a curt nod, Kira stepped out of the hall, leaving the tense atmosphere to settle.
'Too simple-minded to catch the sarcasm, as always,' Reana thought to herself with a sigh.
"Reana!!" her stepmother wailed, her dramatics heightened by the fact that Vivian's wound had already begun to heal. "You...you're a monster!" she spat, her voice trembling with anguish. "Do you hate your sister so much that you can't wait to destroy her, just like you've destroyed everything else in your path? My best friend died giving birth to you…
"And my destined mate, my children's father, withered away because I devoted myself to raising you, depriving my own children of their father's love and affection. Yet, this is how you repay us? How could your heart be so cold, so scheming?" Tears streamed down her face like a torrent, her words dripping with venom and sorrow.
