Elijah POV
“In case it was not abundantly clear: that was sarcasm, do not ever call me Frankie. Uncle, though…” Francis seemed to ponder that a moment, then waved his hand as if dismissing the thought entirely.
“But… no offense, you look nothing like her,” Ambrosia said, wrinkling her nose. I mean it’s not just the…”
“Skin? Yes, well, there are different ways for family to become family, aren’t there?” He wrinkled his nose back in a mocking way. “We don’t share any blood. Our mother, a witch from the Sisters of the Stardust Circle, couldn’t conceive. I think it was something about it being the cost of a powerful spell she needed to cast, but regardless, in order to fill that little hole in her heart she adopted two little witchlings with nowhere else to go.
“I hated Abigale at first,
