“Because it was the right thing to do,” I say finally. “Because that’s my job.”
“I think my eldest brother would disagree on it being your ‘job.’”
“Eldest brother?” I arch my eyebrows, focusing on that instead of lingering on Elmir and his control over my circumstances. I’m not going to let Hamar, of all people, shake the level foundations Elmir and I are currently standing on. “There are more of you?”
“At least pretend to hide your disappointment at the fact.” He rolls his eyes. “Elmir is the oldest, then Dresdan, and then me.”
“Do you all have the same mother and father?”
“What kind of a question—yes we all have the same mother and father.”
“I know your mother wasn’t the last Human Queen.” I rest my hand lightly on Alice’s journal. She seemed to have a…strange relationship with the
