"Adeline? Tell me what's wrong?"
Adeline averted her gaze away from her brother and let out a shaking breath. She couldn't quite bring herself to look into her brother's sapphire eyes that were full of questions.
"Sister…" Nigel stood in front of her and tilted his head to look into her eyes. "You know you can tell me everything, right?"
Adeline's long lashes gave way to her eyes and she looked at her brother's knitted brows. She nodded her head. "I know."
She nervously scratched her forehead and pointed towards the chairs in the middle of the antechamber. "Why don't we sit down first?"
Nigel's heart was now starting to race. He got an unsettling feeling in his gut that whatever she was going to tell was a piece of bad news.
They both took a seat while facing each other. Adeline was clenching her hands so tightly that they were sweating already.
