I nearly choke on air when the words leave Atlas's mouth. "You're my brother!" I exclaimed, mortified.
"Step, I don't consider us siblings though. Your father married my mother after your mother left. He wanted a rebound and got it. My mother and him had a little girl but she died at birth." Atlas explained while clenching his jaw.
I relax visibly. I could not have been related by blood to the monster whom I almost married. This is so messed up. How did my life become this way? It was going good before my idiotic mother shipped me off to Ronald. "What happened to your mother and our father?" I asked.
"My mother died a month after my sister. The grief was too much so she took her life." Atlas explained coldly. I disliked Atlas, but nobody deserves to lose a parents.
"I'm sorry." I whisp
