Chapter 54 Celery And Calculations

• Dawn and Dusk observed the scene from their new seats, but their reactions were surprisingly mild. Astra looked sweet when she ate, her cheeks puffed out like a little chipmunk. There was no jealousy. No resentment.
• Which was strange.
• They had initially resented her for being Daddy's child with another woman. Logic dictated they should dislike her. But biology—something deeper than logic, something written into their blood—kept pulling them toward her. An instinctive urge to protect. To include. As if she were genuinely, biologically, their little sister.