It was too cruel.

Tammie's eyes hardened. "Ann, don't worry. I will get justice for you. I'm going to see our great-aunt right now and demand an explanation." He was going to make Keira provide for Ann's future.

"Don't, Tammie. It's okay. I've accepted my fate," Ann said, tugging weakly at his sleeve.

"Well, I haven't!" he retorted, his brow furrowed with determination. "You wait here, Ann. I'll be back soon."

Tammie arrived at the Gonzales manor with a gift, first paying his respects to Stuart and congratulating him on his recovery. Then, he turned to Keira. "Great- Aunt, may I speak with you privately?"

"Of course, Tammie. Come to my study."

Once they were seated, Keira asked, "What did you want to talk about?"

"I want to talk about Ann."

At the mention of her name, a look of pure disgust crossed Keira's face. "If you're here to talk about her, then save your breath. If it weren't for her and her mother, your uncle would not have woken up twenty years too late."

Tammie frowned. "Great-Aunt, you can blame Amanda for her actions, but the child is innocent. Why should Ann suffer for her mother's sins?"

"Why?" Keira's voice rose in anger. "Because she's a viper, just like her mother! The only reason children shouldn't be punished for their

parents' crimes is if they didn'l net

benefit from them! Do you have any idea how many times Ann tried to harm Caitlin? If Caitlin weren't so clever, she'd be the one in a wheelchair right now!" She took a deep breath, trying to control

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temper. "Tammie, you're being incredibly foolish!" Caitlin was his real cousin, yet here he was, defending an outsider.

"I'm not being foolish," Tammie shot back. "You are. You're blinded by

this. Even if Ann isn't blood, she called you her grandmother for twenty years. For the sake of that history, you shouldn't have been so, ruthless."

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Keira stared at him, her patience gone. "If you feel so strongly for her, then you

can take her in and raise her like your own sister!"

The nerve of him, telling her what she should and shouldn't do.

Tammie's own anger flared. "Fine! If you don't want Ann, then I do! From this day on, I will be her brother!"

"Tammie," Keira said, her voice softening into a grave warning, "don't be impulsive. Ann is a snake If you take her in she will bite you one day. Think very carefully about this. In this life, you can get almost anything, but you can't get a second chance."

Tammie was a good boy who had suffered his own losses. As his elder, she didn't want to see him get hurt.

"You don't need to worry about me, Great-Aunt," he said defiantly. "I trust Ann. Anyone in the world might betray me, but she never will."