Chapter 78 Out Of Sight But Not Out Of Mind

• Nana, their second sister, had been different. For years, Ethan had clung to the hope that she might be an ally, a lifeline in the toxic sea of their family dynamics. But Nana had chosen self-preservation over sisterly love. She had married young and moved away, turning a blind eye to the abuse Ethan suffered at Noah's hands.
• Ethan's jaw clenched as he remembered the desperate phone calls, the pleas for help that went unanswered. Nana could have been his rescuer, his knight in shining armor. Instead, she had chosen silence and distance, leaving him to weather the storm alone.
• The pain of that abandonment still stung, a wound that had never fully healed. Ethan had eventually cut ties with Nana too, unable to reconcile her inaction with the love she claimed to feel for him. Her selfishness had cost her a brother, and Ethan another piece of his already fractured heart.