109, REALISATION

RAUL

The sound of my breathing was the only thing that kept me seated at the table with my brothers. I let my fists curl around the chair as I tried hard to control myself. This was just not right. How could everything have gone wrong in a split second?

“You guys ruined everything for me,” Lucian mumbled.

I turned to him, slightly shocked that he would say such a thing to me. I had not been the one that was arguing like a kid, but he was! Nikolai shifted in his seat as he looked at Lucian with pure anger. It was rare to see him angry, but this time, he definitely was.

“You don’t get to blame us for everything,” he snapped coldly. “It was your idea to use this method to get her to fall in love with us, and we simply proceeded. There is no need to act like you were not aware of everything that had happened, and what occurred was against your free will because I wouldn’t buy that one bit.”

Lucian scoffed as he slammed his fist on the table. “I did what, I thought, was right, but you made