He stared at his cousin for a few minutes, his body slowly relaxing minute by minute before he nods his head. The movement is small - small enough that if you didn’t know him and you weren’t paying attention, you wouldn’t have noticed it in the first place. He wasn’t planning shit on the people who had hurt his cousin, wasn’t going to tell his other cousins either, but he could admit the fact that ‘Mina thought he was - that the older woman didn’t know him better than that, hurt.
one day she was in the utmost certain that they'd UNDERSTAND, roman would understand that she only kept things from him, from them to PROTECT them. it was a role she'd taken on from the start. shield them from as much as she possibly could && that wasn't going to change now, no matter the PANG OF GUILT that resonated through her with his lack of response. she understood it, they were all protective, always had been, perhaps she just took that role a little further than the others did. ❝ we'll get 'em for this, uce, we will. we just have to be PATIENT, ❞ && that was a PROMISE, she'd never planned to let them get away with this, they just had to PLAY it smarter than they ever could.