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"Go on, you can tell me everything," I assured him and told him the exact words I used to tell Adam whenever he's shy or afraid to tell me his thoughts and secrets. "I know that..." I waited for him to continue but he just stopped at the middle of his sentence. I remained silent. I know how silence can help in this kind of situations. It makes you feel that you had to say something. In his case, he had to tell me his secret. "My childhood was a bit same as yours. I was kind of abused, but not by everyone. I had a ruthless father," Edmond started to speak. "My father and our ancestors had their own way to maintain their power and to become powerful. They have their own set of rules that they must follow in order to be worthy of leading our coven. They weren't allowed to have daughters and they must only have one son." Marcello and Edmond are brothers by blood. I only knew this by listening to the gossips circulating in the coven. "My mother gave birth to three daughters at first. All of