"We have been too busy to keep her company. I don't think it is wrong for her to make friends with her cousin. He is my cousin's son and I guess he will be as well behaved as his mother was. We are family," Valerie said calmly.
Rose was shocked by Valerie's sudden open support. Anna also could not understand. The main reason why she was against Rose friendship with the boy was because she knew her adopted mother was not very close to her family. Her mother has never concerned herself with anything that has to do with her family since the queen died.
Valerie ignored their shocked expression as she picked one of the novels from the table. The reason she had to leave her family after the late queen's death is a secret she have sworn to take to her grave but her secret won't make her prevent her adopted daughters from making friends with people from her family.
