Calliope couldn’t help but think back—she’d almost never fought back before.
Maybe it was because her brothers had let her down so many times. Maybe because, deep down, she still hoped they’d change. Most of the time, she just went along with whatever they threw at her, hoping one day her brothers would have some kind of epiphany and realize how wrong they’d been.
But after dying once, yeah, literally dying, she got it. They were never going to see the light. No sudden change of heart, no apologies.
And honestly? She didn’t really need their love anyway. If they didn’t care, fine. She’d love herself. And, hell, her “honorary” brothers, those guys who actually gave a damn, were enough.
As for Lisette, after years of coasting on the family’s generosity? Oh, it was time to settle the score. Once or twice, you could call it an accident. But three, four times? Ten, twenty? Since the day Lisette walked through their front door, she’d been scheming against Calliope. She was manipulative even as a kid. Did she really think she could have it all?
…
The next day was the day Lisette was coming home.
Valerian and Horatio went together to pick her up. Ulysses was off shooting a movie, so he wasn’t around.
Calliope had figured Monty hadn’t gone either, until, after a whirlwind afternoon of meetings, she asked to talk with him about something and Monty’s assistant let the news slip.
“Should I call Mr. Monty for you?” the assistant asked, sounding a little nervous. “He left this morning to pick up Ms. Lisette.”
Everyone in the office knew Calliope was the real power here. If she wanted Monty back, he’d better come running.
But Calliope just shrugged. “Nah, don’t bother.”
She headed back to her office, only for Franco to show up a minute later.
“So,” Franco said, leaning against her doorframe, “everyone’s gone to pick up Lisette?”
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Oh wrestling expert ey? So is this Khamzat Chimaev or Shavkat Rakhmonov? Because Khabib's would be too haram....
Oh no. Million is just mix of Conor McGregor, Islam Makhachev, Mike Tyson, Max Holloway, Anderson Silva... I bet he lands 5sec flying knees like Jorge Masvidal too. Oh nope, 1sec knees. And has faster left hooks than Alex Pereira. Definitely would win UFC championship in every weight division including women. Poor Zhang Weili....
Okay so.... Million is now from East. Arctic wolf from East, modified genetically so he can manage his own Instagram and probably also box like Mike Tyson and snapping left hooks like Alex Pereira....
This is starting to be the same twister of abilities as Cassandra Yates and Tiffany. But question is, why the hell Silas can't just open his mouth and tell Caliope that she's the one whom he has in his heart. He would prevent a lot of misunderstanding. Seems like despite capability of talking with modified arctic wolf, she's not like telepathic....
Oh no, so FL is again another hidden genius with both hemispheres working on hundreds... Ffffuuuu. Cassandra Yates and Tiffany were already enough, ughugh. And Tiffany was even more exaggerated than Cassandra....
That's weird, in the first chapters there was said that her bio parents and bros doteď on Caliope but then they adopted Lisette, but this chapter suddenly says otherwise. Did author forget what he wrote?...
I REALLLYYY REALLLYYYY REALLYYYYYY WANT TO SLAP THE 3 BROTHERS WHENEVER THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH !!! AND THEIR MOM !!!...
Why has this not been updated ?? there were 5 more chapters which was released and it has not been updated.. Please do update on regular basis......