Whether Emily was genuinely being well-behaved or just pretending didn't matter much to Anna. As long as she kept her head down and didn’t get on her nerves, that was good enough. Anna glanced at her briefly, ready to start eating, when Henry Davis’s mocking voice cut through the room:
"Everyone waited for you all night, and now you don’t even have the decency to apologize. The elders haven't even started eating, and here you are, ready to dig in. Just because you don’t have a mother doesn't mean you should act like you weren’t raised properly!"
Henry was the legitimate grandson of the Davis family, born after Victoria married Alexander. Unlike Emily, he didn’t need to humble himself before Anna. From a young age, Victoria had instilled in him that Anna wasn’t his real sister and that he
