"Chleo, what's wrong? You look so sad." Evie realized that her cousin had become depressed since she found out that their two youngest siblings were injured.
"I am alright. I'm just disappointed in myself."
"Why?"
"If I had paid more attention to Hadley, then something like this wouldn't have happened."
"If you feel guilty about that, doesn't that mean I'm guilty too?" added Abigail. "I'm with you too, and we both didn't give our attention to Hadley."
"..." Chleo lowered her eyes as she became more dejected.
"Well, it's kind of hard to love a very annoying cousin."
Cathy giggled at Evie's sarcasm. "Hush, you can't talk like that. She's still your cousin."
"No, she's not. We're not blood-related at all."
And it's true. Chleo and Abi may still be related by blood to Ewald and his children, but Evie was the daughter of Vienna Regnz's nephew. Thus she had no kin relation with the Regnz family.
