~Abigail's POV~
"You locked me in the attic, Leo. The attic where there are spiders." Kalliope gives Leo the flattest deadpan known to mankind.
We all burst out laughing especially as Leo lifts both hands like he's surrendering to the police.
"I've been apologizing since we were five. Get over it," he snorts.
Kalliope just rolls her eyes at him.
Spending the whole afternoon like this. Eating pastries, drinking wine, talking about hobbies and music and random nonsense, it's almost… normal. Too normal. It makes me wonder why there's so much invisible tension in the Rassais family before the whole Nicholas situation.
I take a bite of a meat sandwich, and the flavor assaults my tongue in a very disrespectfully good way. I swallow, then look at them all.
"Okay. Time for serious questions."
"I'm in!" Leo grins immediately.
"Hit me," Priya says with a shrug.
Kalliope narrows her eyes at me like she can already smell chaos.
