But, after a while, even the silence too was too much.
Fortunately, Ian took that moment to fill the void. “Are you okay, Annette?”
“I don’t know,” I replied honestly. Before I would have stopped there, but in my efforts to try to connect with Ian, I knew I needed to open up to him. That meant talking, even about the hard stuff. “Did you know about my adopted sister Amelia?”
“I’d heard the name,” Ian said, but my estate is closer to the border. Typically I never bothered myself with the going-on’s of the Alpha’s family. At least not after high school.”
“Did you know us in high school?” I asked.
“I went to school with Sienna,” he said. “Honestly, I thought she and Jake were the only children. It wasn’t until later I learned about Amelia, and later still that I learned about you. I’m so
