"You should come often. Your father worries about you." Ana nodded and hugged Diana after hugging her father followed by Rowan.
"And you, my dear, you should come here so that we can complain about your mother together." Rowan smiled. For the first time, he did not feel he was acting or the smile he was shown was fake. To his surprise, Garrison didn't give him any order on how to behave.
From the first time he had behaved like a coward child in his father's study to the warm young boy who had come to meet his new mother. The cold child who questioned Ana's intentions again and again to the sick child that behaved gullible in front of the royal family. Rowan had been acting for such a long time that he had completely forgotten how he wanted to behave.
What his nature was and how he was supposed to react. He just looked dazed when the woman hugged him. His grandmother… The word felt foreign to him. But then.. Mother was not a related word either!
