Chapter 852 - The Adorable Twins (1/2)
Nicolae was stunned and did not know what to think. His mind suddenly felt empty. When she saw his brother walking while carrying one of his babies, who was now big enough to chatter and happily patted his cheek, Nicolae hurriedly gave Alaric a signal to come to him.
”The party is lively, isn't it?” Alaric said. His face looked very bright, he clearly enjoyed his role as a father to the two little babies.
”Yes, it is...” commented Nicolae. He elbowed Alaric and tilted his chin toward Lauriel, who was standing in the corner with Rosalien. Both of them looked like party decorations that were standing still, looking at people dancing with the same cold expression.
”Have you seen father?” Nicolae asked.
Alaric followed his brother's gaze and stared straight at Lauriel and Rosalien. He could only shrug. He already suspected his father's closeness with Rosalien since he saw the red woven wristband his father had worn during their year-end holiday on F Island.
He knew Rosalien attended a weaving therapy to calm her nerves down, years ago. The girl was known to have explosive emotions and couldn't make friends. She attended the therapy as part of her anger management program. She grew to like weaving small objects in her spare time. Alaric still had the wristband Rosalien gave him a dozen years ago.
The woven wristband in Lauriel's hands proved that somehow, after returning from Targu Mures last year, Lauriel was reunited with Rosalien and the bad blood, due to events from eleven years ago when Lauriel captured Rosalien, had been settled between them.
If Rosalien still held a grudge against Lauriel, then there was no way that she would give Lauriel one of her handmade wristbands. Alaric also could not help but notice when Lauriel started wearing it. Over the past year, he had begun to get to know his father, and he knew that Lauriel was not someone who liked wearing accessories, such as a wristband.
It gave him the impression that Rosalien must be important enough to Lauriel that the man changed and accepted the wristband she gave him. And tonight, both of them seemed to come together to attend the wedding and even wore the same red wristbands...
Was this a subtle sign that the two were in a relationship? Just look ... their gestures seemed very similar. They both even gave off the same indifferent and cold vibe.
”I think ... they do have a special relationship,” Alaric finally said. ”I will ask Aleksis to ask father directly.”
Nicolae grabbed his brother's shoulder and shook his head. ”Uhm .. I don't think we should ask him anything. We shouldn't force our father to share something if he doesn't want to share it with us. Maybe they are reluctant to announce their relationship because Rosalien is one of your foster children.”
Alaric frowned. That was true. After all, Rosalien was his foster daughter and Lauriel was his biological father. For regular human standards, the relationship between Lauriel and Rosalien, if they were really lovers, would be considered unnatural.
But they were not even related by blood, and Alaric also never adopted Rosalien as his daughter. He gave his last name Rhionen to Rosalien to mark their bond as fellow members of Rhionen Assassins. His real last name was actually Medici.
Come to think of it ... Alaric, who was very familiar with Rosalien, having been with her for almost 30 years, felt that the girl was actually very similar to Lauriel. They were equally reclusive, cold, and quiet. Rosalien didn't have any friends. She was only close to her three foster brothers.
She was just like Lauriel, who was only close to his people in Wolf Pack and Caspar Schneider.
He thought again how he should respond to this. If indeed Lauriel was in a relationship with Rosalien ... then surely he would support his father unconditionally.