Aurelia's POV
The Kane mansion felt unusually quiet the next morning as I made my way down to the kitchen for breakfast. The silence was almost eerie compared to the usual sounds of the brothers moving around, arguing, or planning their next scheme. I found myself glancing around corners, half-expecting one of them to appear and continue yesterday's emotional confrontation.
But the house remained empty except for the staff.
"Excuse me," I asked Maria, one of the housekeepers, as she polished the marble countertops. "Do you know where the brothers are?"
"They left early this morning, miss," she replied with a knowing smile. "Something about practice for the big competition. Very intense, those boys, when they set their minds to something."
Practice. Of course. The sports competitio
