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Chapter Fifty-Three
Aleric didn't look reassured by the answer I'd given but he let me go anyway, the two of us walking back over to where Thea was laughably pretending to act scared.
I scoffed at her appearance, much to the curiosity of the warriors standing around.
Aleric ignored me and walked up to her, crouching so they were eye level. And even though I felt the urge to murder Thea more than anything in that moment, I couldn't help but feel a pang of distress echo inside me seeing the two of them so close together again. I knew it wasn't remotely the same as in the past and I shouldn't care anymore, but the reaction was involuntary. It was just more fuel for the pain I was nurturing inside.
"Your name is Thea, correct?" Aleric asked.
She just nodded, her eyes wide with fear as she looked around at everyone surrounding her.
"We've been trying to locate you for almost a week now. Where have you been?"
Her voice was exactly the same as how I remembered it. I c
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