I softened my face. Just enough to look human.
"Honestly, I think Damian and Darius were only asking about her because they care about you. They didn't mean to drag you into something this painful. But you've been gone so long. What made you decide to come back now, with your father?"
Rebecca lowered her lashes, mouth curving into something soft and embarrassed. She did it well. She always had. Underneath the performance, though, I caught the unmistakable gleam of a woman enjoying being looked at by three Alphas at once. She liked the attention more than she missed her sister.
"Oh, you know how it is." Her lashes fluttered. "My father had been having such a hard time. But this lovely older relative on my mother's side reached out to us. She insisted on bringing us home. She covered the
