Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1946

Some people pretended not to love their children. Others, however, truly didn't love them.

At least for Cornelius, he had never felt love.

Perhaps that woman had once given him a little, but it was so small, so faint, that it had faded into the recesses of his memory. He had long forgotten what it felt like.

After learning about Cornelius' past, Luke, in the name of the Special Security Agency, decisively dealt with the dragon father who had tormented the human woman all those years ago.

He stripped it of half its scales and confined it to the clan's lands for over a century.

Cornelius was unaware of these events, though. There were always things kept from a child, things to leave them with "hope".

Thalia and the others fell into silence after hearing Cornelius' backstory.

Shannon, though aware that Cornelius was a half-demon, hadn't known the extent of his past.

She hadn't realized that Cornelius had been abandoned by both his parents and had struggled to survive for years with the appearance of a ten-year-old child.

Kai, too, was an orphan. Though his mother had tragically died when she evolved into a dragon, he had always been taken care of by his clan when he was young.

He hadn't known that Cornelius had endured such hardship in his early years. No wonder he was always so short-tempered, and suddenly gave him a beating.

He sighed, muttering, "I should've been the bigger person."

Benjamin shot Kai a glance but said nothing.

It was Thalia, however, who, despite not understanding why Reuben had taken in a half-demon dragon who despised the dragon clan, finally acknowledged the fact that Reuben had raised and nurtured a half-demon.