"Selene, we understand your frustration; we know you have your own mind and feelings, and I, for one, am proud that you have inherited this from your father; it is clear you are the better half of them both."
Her words were sweet, and I was learning more about her method, but when I compared her words to her actions, I realized she was clearly used to being nice in order to divert the conversation for her own benefit. My mother always taught me not to let words be the only way to make a decision.
"Thanks, but what?"
Klaudia looked at me as if she had just been caught; her facial expression indicated that she had not anticipated my response, as Emilia once told me.
The union of mates can create their better half, but neither are the children they have given birth to; it is their own, no
