Chapter 53

AARON

“Sorry, can you repeat that again. I didn’t catch it the first time.”

“You want to do what?” I looked at the woman in front of me—someone I called my sister—the way one would look at a lunatic.

“I want to replace Valeria as Ria.”

“You can make it work, right?”

Okay. So my hearing was perfectly fine. I had heard her correctly.

The way she put it—so casually, as if it were the most reasonable request—left me utterly befuddled.

Is Vanessa… in her right mind?

Genuinely puzzled, I blurted out the question before I could stop myself.

I expected her to get angry at me, undeniably insulting as my question was, but to my surprise, she didn’t.

‘I guess she also knew how crazy she sounded,’ I mused.

“You only have to tell me whether you’re willing to help me or not,” she leaned forward, stubborn determination in her eyes.

My answer was just as resolute, ”I won’t.”

“I don’t know how you got this idea or the delu