“Milo is actually pretty decent,” Titus said after a brief silence, unexpectedly speaking up for him.
Caleb also fell quiet. After thinking it over, he sighed. “Yeah… aside from him, I’m afraid no one else would even dare marry our Belle.”
“That’s not entirely true,” Titus replied. “My master likes Belle a lot. He’s mentioned more times than I can count that he wants to form a marriage alliance with your family. It’s just that Fabian—he feels about Belle the same way I do. We all grew up playing together, so what formed was sibling affection.”
Lilian adored Belle and had long hoped to send her son to the Serenity family, wishing Serenity would raise Fabian as a future son-in-law so the two could grow up as carefree childhood sweethearts.
Back then, the elders only wanted the children to spend time together and form deep bonds, believing it would make life smoother when they grew up. The bond did deepen—but it became familial, brother-and-sister affection, not romantic love.
Lilian often asked Fabian how he could not fall for such a pretty, lovable Belle.
Fabian would always answer honestly: of course he liked Belle—but it was a pure kind of liking. He had no intention of marrying her. He even joked that Belle had eighteen brothers and that he wouldn’t dare marry her, afraid he’d be beaten up by all of them.
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