Chapter 2253

That was when Elowen showed up, wearing Shannon's face, and asked, "If I were your cousin, would I be better than Shannon at it? "If you had the choice all over again, who would you pick to be your cousin?" Scott almost blurted out Shannon's name without hesitation. In that brief flicker, a memory surfaced. He saw himself in the abandoned classroom building, fleeing from ghosts, and Shannon running toward him as her hands formed mudras. He saw her cold eyes laced with disdain and the way she narrowed them to threaten him. Scott had always known he'd been terrible to her in the beginning. He knew that if not for the distant thread of blood tying them together, Shannon wouldn't have bothered with him again. They were cousins by circumstances, and they'd gotten closer now through his thick-skinned approaches. She treated him better than she did with their other cousins, but he could never compare to Hector. To her, he would always be that old brat he used to be. If he could choos