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“Do you remember what you called me in the forest, Salsu Maru? What Nando had called me?” “Mmm.” “In our language it means ‘Least Son.’ That’s what I am. Not the youngest of three, but the least important, because I was illegitimate. My brother has made an art form of rubbing it in my face, hence his amusing nicknames for me.” She’d fallen still, listening. “Your brother? The Alpha is your brother?” “Half,” he corrected. “So is Xander, Morgan’s husband. Three different mothers, three different lives. And in answer to the second part of your question, why he hates me so much, well . . .” How to explain the unexplainable? What words might properly convey the twisted logic that makes one sibling jealous of the attention given to another by a parent, even if that attention came in the form
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