Kylie couldn't stop thinking about it, the question lingering quietly in the back of her mind. How had Seraphine not known something like this? It didn't make sense at first, not when it was something so deeply tied to her own bloodline.
But the more she thought about it, the clearer the answer became, settling into her chest with a bitter kind of understanding.
Chuck and Noelle Dion.
Seraphine's biological parents had been so wrapped up in their favoritism, so blinded by their affection for Daisy, that they had neglected their own daughter in ways that ran far deeper than anyone could see on the surface.
Important things that should have been passed down with care and pride, had simply been ignored.
Left unsaid. Left unknown.
And Seraphine had been the one to pay the price for that silence.
Still, none of that mattered right now, not when she finally had something real to hold onto.
