I stared at my bloodied palm and suddenly laughed out loud.
Sirius’s heart tightened inexplicably, and a trace of panic showed on his face. “Why are you laughing?”
I shrugged, not about to tell him that I was laughing at my own stupidity-for giving myself so much grief, just so that I could retain the shallow affection of my parents and Sirius.
Every time Lola played the delicate maiden, they would believe everything Lola said without question, even if I was my parents’ real daughter and Sirius’s childhood sweetheart.
And she kept going, giving the impression that I was a wicked villainess who kept hurting my sister and taking away everything that was rightfully hers.
I clenched my fists so hard that my nails dug into my palms and looked up at Sirius with reddened eyes. “No, I won’t apologize- I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Sirius’s eyes widened, clearly stung by my defiance.
“Sirius…” Lola suddenly sobbed. “My hand hurts so much…”
Sirius promptly turned without hesitation and gathered her in his arms.
Unironically fearing that Lola would feel cold in a room with a giant fire pot, he even ran to his car, grabbed a fox fur coat, and wrapped it tightly around her.
My heart could break when I saw the fox fur coat, because it was fashioned out of my eight tails.
As a nine-tailed foxkin, each of my tails was the embodiment of each one of nine lives.
But because Lola didn’t mind dying just to ruin my life, she had successfully goaded Sirius into forcing me to tear off my own
tails.
She didn’t stop there either-the day when Lola won the Elixir Challenge with my work, she said that she was cold, and Sirius pulled out that same fox fur coat to celebrate her victory.
Naturally, Lola noticed where I was looking and smiled smugly as she stroked the fox fur on her coat, while pressing herself in Sirius’s arms and complaining about the pain.
Any hint of empathy faded from Sirius’s eyes instantly, and he wheeled on me in disgust as he growled coldly, “You’re not setting a foot in my house until you kneel and apologize to Lola! Let’s see how long
