"Mother?" Arabella's head tilted to the side.
Allegra's body visibly froze as she leaped back from Silas, face red as a beet.
Arabella looked between all of them and aside from Allegra who seemed mortified, Silas and Grace only cleared their throats and refused to meet each other's gazes.
Around the third time of her trying to study their faces one after the other, she finally got the hint.
In simple terms, something had happened between her and Cynric. That was the only available that was also the most plausible explanation.
"Yes! Father said she was going to be my mother from now on," Remus let go of Arabella's hand only to run over towards Allegra, "And she was not sad and did not cry like you did before," he looked straight at Arabella at those words.
To that, the young woman could not help but laugh. Supposedly, as a wolf, anyone that would be a mate to one of his parents counted as a parent too which explained his behavior and words, but still…
