<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian nodded, accepting the point.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff"> “Correct, I was going to take both of you from the start. I wanted to see what your reactions would be to seeing the other taken, hence the ruse of only wanting you, Ayla. Either way you both would be here, but when you stepped up and offered yourself for your sister I knew I had made the right choice.”</span> Here he paused and looked intently between the two of them sizing them up. <span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“For those that live in the shadows, for house Dimir, family is everything. Just because you stood up for one another you have gained some of my respect, like your father lost it for so many things. I know about how you were treated, the disapproval of your stepmother always hanging over your heads. I wanted something I knew your father would miss, but could be to my advantage. Thus, I chose you two.”</span></span>