Chapter 374

Unmistakable pride shone from Thea’s face. The past took on a different hue immediately. The person that Calix had become when his father died had been born out of great responsibility and necessity; not a greedy desire to make money. Cassia felt ill again. She looked at Thea with stricken eyes.

‘My parents…they threw him out of the house. I’ll never forget it.’

Thea nodded. ‘I thought so.’ She shook her head at Cassia’s look. ‘No, he didn’t tell me, but I knew something bad had happened over there. He never mentioned your family again. And, in truth, you, your parents, your cousins were all the family he really had.’

Cassia felt numb. more than numb. She’d known they’d always been close, but he’d always seemed so... self-sufficient. He’d always held something back. He’d never talked about his own family. Not really. For the first time, she could see how it could have been possible for her parents to judge him so harshly if they’d felt they hadn’t known him that well.

It was so much w