"At first Lith wouldn't believe me even if I told him that the sky was blue unless he first looked up himself."
"Really? Was my little brother such a bitter prick even as a child?" Were those words coming from anyone else, Tista would have dismissed them as an insult and taught the liar a lesson. "As I remember it, Lith was sweet and caring to a fault.
"He woke up first to let us find the house warm for breakfast and helped Mom with the chores. Lith always took care of me and started working from a tender age to help the family make ends meet."
'Fuck me sideways.' Solus inwardly cursed her own big mouth. 'Tista has no idea that Lith was never a child or that what she experienced was just a mask. I'm so used to talking with Kami about everything that I forgot no one else knows about Derek.'
