Nina opens and closes her mouth like she still can’t believe what’s happened even though Sable confirmed it. “I might have to. The number of times I’ve seen my sister naked with her boyfriends might not be fixable even with a lifetime of therapy.”
“Please, you have so many other issues. Don’t even try,” Sable tells her.
They grin at each other, and I decide that their sibling relationship is worse than mine is with Soren. Really, girls are weird. And crazy, but I’m glad to win at something.
“There’s something else, though I’m not sure I should give you anything else with that attitude,” Sable says as she takes an envelope from her pocket.
Yes,I make my woman gowns with pockets. And I share her with my best friends and twin brother. Honestly, I’m the perfect catch.
“What’s this?” Nina asks before opening the letter Sable’s dad left her.
Her eyes fill with tears, but she swallows the feelings so quickly that if I hadn’t been watching, I’d have missed it.
“It was for you.” Sable shrugs. “I read it about a million times anyway.”
“So… can I keep it?”
“Yeah.”
They are quiet for a bit, and none of us know how to deal with that. We are all overprotective of Sable, but maybe it’s good that she has a sister, someone who was her best friend at one time.
“Fuck you, Sable, damn! I didn’t want to have warm and fuzzy feelings for you.” Nina seems frustrated, which is crazy ’cause she’s rich now. What is she complaining about?
“You were nicer when you were Liliana.” Sable chuckles.
“Tell me this one last thing. Is it true that you killed them all? Every last of the four families?” She looks back and forth, but the room is truly empty now. I would be very surprised if many people are left.
“You heard the gossip, or you heard the screams?” Sable smiles.
“Fuck.” Nina rubs her eyes with the heel of her hands. “Is it really over?”
Sometimes I forget how many people will celebrate over the grave of our fathers. Nina processes the information with a lot of cursing, but finally she nods to herself and looks back at Sable.
“Okay, but there’s one last Briarwick in this castle.”
“What?” I move into action, my eyes narrowing to every crevice, watching for an intruder. Who the fuck is left?
“What are you talking about?” Sable asks.
Nina smiles. “Carl Briarwick? I stole his body. He’s in the tunnels.”
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I ask genuinely. Seriously, what is happening with this chick?
“You brought a corpse to school?” Sable asks.
Nina shrugs, unbothered. “You made corpses in a school. You made all the corpses we’re fighting about actually.”
“Whatever.” Sable waves the situation away. “One more to clean up, right?”
Nina laughs as if it’s the funniest thing she’s ever heard and leaves—not through the front door, but back in the bowels of the castle.
“Stop living in my castle!” Sable shouts after her, but I doubt Nina cares enough to pretend to listen.
“Okay, everyone is out, but your crazy half sister is still here…” I exhale.
“And the corpse of her uncle,” Lex adds.
“Not bad for a start.” Sable smiles, and then she’s back to the throne where she belongs.
