"You could have told me, Joseph," Claudia protested softly, actually using his preferred name for once as she regarded him seriously. "I get why you didn't tell him, even though that obviously didn't work out so well, but.. I'm your sister. There's no way you could lost me."
It shouldn't have been a big deal and she wasn't trying to make him feel bad, but she couldn't help being bothered by the fact that he'd his this from her, his won sister. Screw what Matt though for the moment. She thought she and Joseph were close enough to share this kind of thing and she hated the thought that he'd been going through all this with no one to talk to.
"You really love her, huh?" she questioned after a brief pause. That was mostly a rhetorical question, because she was sure she knew what the answer would be and she really wasn't sure how she felt about it.