Chapter 84: Expecting Company

Talia "You're wrong, Frederick," I said, taking my brother's hand. "Why would I lie about what happened to my own child?" He shook his head. "If he wanted you to believe that it was Stonebrook just so he could turn you against your home—" "Frederick, listen to yourself and listen to me," I said, drawing his attention. "Magda and Velma," I said, trying to calm him down. "The two of them came here and helped me with the baby, with the pregnancy. Because of them, I put away everything else I had known, thinking that the prophecy Aria gave me would never come true if I kept to those I trusted and those who cared for me. And so, I began to trust them. Why did Baron let them here? If only he knew that—" "I'm not buying it," he said. "Baron let them here because all I ever did was call him a barbarian and complain and whine about how much I missed my home and how much better Stonebrook was. The two sisters were brought here by guards who thought they were spies. The law here states tha