Chapter 89 Brother's Beauty

• “I haven’t been able to find out anything about Ethan since he was discharged from the hospital. But the fact that he was well enough to go home is promising,” Olivia says softly. She must be able to see the emotions I’m going through in my expressions. I’d never say it to her face, but her relationship with Dad is why Mom finally snapped. She chalked Ethan and I up to being her two rebel children who were fucking just to spite her. I think she knew it hadn’t gone that far between Landon and Sophia. Last Sophia told me, nothing was happening between them, but it’ll happen. I see the way he looks at her, the way he protects her, the way he absolutely panics when he can’t find her. I feel it in my bones that it was the way Dad was starting to act with Olivia, though, that made Mom realize that the Hillcrest curse is real. He’s enamored by Olivia, and anyone watching him gaze at her would be able to see that.
• Especially his wife.
• “Have you talked to Dad?” I ask her, snickering when her face pales at the mention of him. He might not have claimed her for his own yet, but I know she felt the tension between them. She might be more innocent than I am, but she’s not stupid. He never stopped Sophia or me from going anywhere, but he kept a tight rein on Olivia. I could say or do whatever I wanted, and it was chalked up tothat’s just Isabella’s smart mouth.Olivia was spanked for talking back to him in a tone he didn’t like on numerous occasions after our 18th birthday, and that’s when Ethan and I started side-eyeing Dad for signs of the curse. If you ask me about it, which no one ever does, I’d say he just gets off on spanking her. I never, even when we were younger, saw him be affectionate toward Mom, and it only came out after the attack that their marriage was an arranged business merger concocted by their fathers a few years before the first set of twins, Ethan and Samuel, were born.