Around late in the afternoon, the other cousins arrived at the castle. Zari, Zander, and Fiero sat on the couch in the royal suite's common room as Lysandra ranted about Shanaia’s situation.
“Are you sure it isn’t Stockholm syndrome?” Lysandra asked.
“We already went through their minds and it’s true, they are mates,” Zari said.
“Let us just accept that Shanaia finally found her mate and she is happy,” Zander added.
Lysandra crossed her arms over her chest, still not convinced about Shanaia’s situation.
“Can you just drop it?” Fiero asked his sister.
Lysandra looked at him.
“I can’t, okay? She was gone for so long and she was just being held captive by that man,” she hissed.
“They are together not long. It wasn’t even a month,” Zander said.
The twins looked at him confused.
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