Chapter 254: A part of the family?
"Greetings to everyone," Elliana smiled and bowed to Abramo and Aubrey as soon as she walked to the dining table, and the elderly couple who were talking to their kids and grandkids, looked up with a pleasant smile.
"How are you feeling now, sweetheart? Please forgive us. We should’ve kept your health in mind and catered to you better," Aubrey said.
Elliana smiled before shaking her head in denial.
"It’s no one’s fault. Maybe I was too excited to meet you all, and then I danced non-stop so...." she smiled helplessly and childishly, making Aubrey smile.
"Well, welcome to our family’s palace," Victoria smirked.
"The way you are saying it, sister Victoria, it’s almost as if you want to make me feel that we are not part of the family. Since I am the daughter-in-law of the royals, shouldn’t I be already a member?" Elliana asked cunningly, and the smile on Victoria’s face froze.
"Oh, Princess. Please don’t take it wrongly. Victoria is stupid and doesn’t know what to say and when to say," Santo, the seventh brother and Freya’s youngest son said, making Elliana smile.
"I don’t take any offense, elder brother-in-law. I was just confirming things, alas, I become too friendly and try to act too intimately with people who might not want to have anything to do with me.
Everyone had mixed reactions about my presence today, and I respect that it will take some time for all of us to adjust to each other, but it doesn’t make us any less of a family. A person’s shortcomings shouldn’t come between their relationship with the family," Elliana said.
The smile on Abramo’s face faltered a bit as he could see that she was indirectly hinting at how they treated Sebastian and asked him to live away.
Freya, who remembered their earlier talk, thinned her lips and looked at her plate in shame.