Always Been Yours

The meeting ended soon after that, and everyone seemed like they were in a hurry to leave the house. Soon enough, Remus' family was the only one left in the large Sawyer Residence. Stefania sat on the couch, still fuming from what had happened earlier. "I can't believe they would do such a thing to their younger generations. They're just too much!" she hissed through gritted teeth.

Tessa was worried that Stefania would get too worked up, so she hurried over to comfort Stefania. "You should be more mindful of your health. There's no need to get so angry now that they've been captured. They're about to pay for what they did," Tessa uttered. However, Stefania only seemed more emotional after hearing Tessa's words. "What's the use of capturing them? They can't bring Kieran back." She sighed. She sounded like she was close to tears.

Tessa didn't know how to comfort Stefania at that point—she felt saddened by what Stefania said as well. The best Tessa could do then was to quietly stay by Stefania's side. When Nicholas sensed the sorrow in the two women, he surprised them with a shocking piece of information. "Actually… Kieran's still alive."

Both Tessa and Stefania were too stunned to speak for a while, but Stefania was the first to react. She turned to stare at him. "Are you serious? Is your brother still alive?" Both Remus and Tessa shifted their gazes to Nicholas as well.

"Yeah. He's still alive." Nicholas nodded.

was the first to understand the whole situation. "So, you brothers teamed up to plan this whole thing, huh?" Remus

plan it all out, but we just went along with the situation,"

out, but we just went along with the situation," he explained.

going on

find Kieran after we sent out men to search for him that day, but Kieran

all worrying for nothing?" she was

seemed rather angry as well. Even Tobias felt the need to lecture Nicholas. "How could both of you keep such a huge secret to yourselves? Your grandpa and your mom were so worried about Kieran. Some of us nearly fainted," he muttered.

calm in the face of his family members' annoyance. "We didn't tell you anything as we wanted Granduncle Joseph and Adam to lower their guards. I doubt I would've been able to catch them red-handed if

no excuse to hide things from us." Stefania shot Nicholas an angry

empathic about Nicholas' decision to keep this a secret. She took one glance at the sour looks on all the elders' faces before she decided that she should help her husband and tried to change the topic. "You mentioned that Kieran was in bad shape.

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