Ethan glanced toward the door, fell silent for a moment, then got up and went to open it. "What took you so long to answer the door? I thought you weren't home," came Sophia Brooks' grumble as soon as the door was pulled open, accompanied by the babbling of her two-year-old daughter. Ethan gave her a brief look. "What brings you here?" Though his tone was gruff, his hand still reached out for the two-year-old girl Sophia was holding. Sophia was Ethan's sister, two years younger than him, but they didn't share the same mother. She was Harper's biological child, while Ethan was not. Perhaps because they didn't share the same mother, despite both inheriting their father and respective mothers' good looks, they hadn't inherited the same level of intelligence. Sophia was beautiful yet no

