Rhoda's POV
I stared at Lucian, my breath shallow, my heart pounding against my ribs in pain.
His words echoed in my mind, each one slamming into me like a physical blow.
Yes
That one word stole the air from my lungs as I glared at him.
I had heard it from dad, and I had feared it, but hearing it confirmed from his lips was something else entirely.
My mind struggled to process it to make sense of the cruelty laced with his confession.
How could someone who calls himself a human do such a thing to another human?
I wondered in my mind.
Lucian had smeared my name and let my own parents turn against me.
Even if they weren't my biological parents, he made my family hate me.
And for what?
Just to make it easier for himself? To avoid conflict with his father? Have I been nothing mor
