Chapter 58 - 57. Rolling Crown
Sarah forces her senses to ignore the creaking sound coming from behind her. Even Amber’s attendants failed to maintain their expression and looked like they were about to choke. Amber herself couldn’t open her mouth, fearing she would stutter.
No matter what, even if Mason did not share a drop of blood with Sarah, they were still brought up as siblings.
Meanwhile, Sarah thought about the moment she found out Mason’s hidden desire. The moment right before her death. A proof so shocking that she almost thought it was a hallucination.
But...there was no way she could use that as an answer, right? Rather...
"Since he constantly touched me weirdly?" Sarah looked up.
She only knew about Mason’s true intention at the end of her life, but thinking back, there were actually a lot of weird moments she did not acknowledge from their younger days. Either because she was still naive or because she was too afraid to think too much about it.
"Did he ever caress your nape and let his hand linger on your back?" Sarah continued in front of Amber’s shocked face while stirring her teacup. "Did he ever whisper in your ear while hugging you? Or kissed your neck, your cheek, your temple--"
"Enough!" Amber slammed her palm on the table, inhaling sharply. She recalled the sickly sweet tone Mason used when he talked to Sarah alone, and the obsessive gaze he cast her when he thought no one was watching. It seemed like such a thing had happened way, way before they became adults. "Alright, he never did."
Mason never showed ’brotherly’ love to anyone, including his blood siblings. Amber had hoped for that, since their mother left the house when she was still a toddler, but...he was almost as cold as their father. Her father.
"When he kept trying to hold my hand and rubbed my lips, I couldn’t help but get suspicious, don’t you think?" Sarah smiled wryly. "But...I was so wishing that this family wasn’t that fucked up."
She dropped a cube of flower-shaped black sugar into the bitter tea, stirring it rather erratically.