CASSIAN

Well, that wasn’t awkward at all. Usually I was the one who would say something embarrassing, but now Tristan took center stage. Everyone was looking at him after he just publicly confessed to wanting someone and snapped a fork clean in half like it owed him money. 

“Why do you want who?” our father asked calmly. The kind that came right before he destroyed a man’s entire bloodline.

I turned my head slowly toward my dear, tightly-wound brother, praying to ...