“What do you mean...?” Dexter asked, bewildered, too stunned to speak as he stood numbed and frozen to the ground, staring deep at Hugh’s face and trying to understand whether he was being honest or just kidding.
“She is actually my cousin!”
Hugh admitted, making Dexter's throat run dry.
Never even in, a thousand years, would he have been able to realize or even come up with the truth in any possibly factual way that Celeste was not Hugh’s real sister and, in fact, his cousin.
“How is... how is she your cousin?” he asked again, wanting to know what the real history was behind the truth of their relationship.
“Hannah Hemsworth, Celeste’s mother; is actually my aunt. I am her brother, Jason Hemsworth’s son.”
Dexter’s eyes went wide, as he realized that throughout the whole while, he ha
