Sylas wasn't nearly as mad as Cassarae thought he was. That wasn't because he was so sure that she was lying either. After all, he hadn't been by Cassarae's side in 10 years. In that time, she had finished off her last year of high school and gone off to campus. Who knew what happened or how she could have changed in that time? He wasn't naive enough to be sure she had been some holy saintess the entire time.
However, if Sylas was going to make his decisions based on that, he would have never put his foot down in the first place. These were simply things that he just didn't give a damn about.
There was a primal desire in him to be the first and the only, but... there was an even stronger primal desire in him to be the best and the last.
Cassarae also represented something else to him, something that he wasn't quite able to put into words. Maybe if he was able to do that, his Madness Comprehension would be Gold instead of Silver.
Whatever it was, he would figure it out eventually. As for the rest, it could wait until he had dealt with other things.
...
"Ugh."
Cassarae eventually stood as if she was ready to leave and go and do something, only to find that her parents were still standing in the room.
"What the hell? Why haven't you two left yet?"
Paul and Geraldene looked toward one another before laughing. Their daughter had been so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't even realize that they were still here. Didn't that say everything that needed to be said?
"You know, Cass, you shouldn't be so stubborn," Geraldene said, nodding to herself.
Cassarae's lip twitched. Was this mother of hers, the most stubborn person she knew, about to lecture her about stubbornness? Was she their daughter? Or was Sylas their son?
"What are you talking about, Mom? I have business to handle; we can pick this up later."
"You know what I'm talking about. You're a grown woman; you should know how men are by now. There are two paths they take when they chase after something that's hard to get. Either they eventually give up, or they finally taste it and then toss it away-."
"Are you being serious right now?" Cassarae looked at her mother like she didn't even recognize her.
"I'm just saying, you're getting a little on in the years department, don't you think? You're already 26-."
"MOM!"
"—And who knows how many men you've been with by now. It's a good thing that Little Syl is a very confident man and doesn't care very much."
"I'M A VIRGIN!"
Paul and Geraldene blinked, then looked toward one another before bursting into a fit of laughter. They laughed so hard that tears started streaming down their faces.
"A 26-year-old virgin, I can't breathe--!"
Cassarae turned as red as an apple. She almost never showed such an embarrassed expression. Even when Sylas had basically just confessed to her, she reacted with anger instead. But her parents had a problem... they loved pulling practical jokes too much. It felt like she was the one raising them instead of the other way around. fгeewebnovёl.com
Because of this, she never told her parents about her love life, and they honestly had no idea. There was only so far motherly intuition could take Geraldene when you were raising a teenager and now a grown woman.
If anything, Geraldene could finally rest her heart at ease.
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