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You must have some balls stalking me, then approaching me to threaten my mates to my face. Do you think you can scare me in any way?” Orfilia scoffed.

“You don’t need to act tough for me, Orfilia,” Alaric began. “There’s no need to feel threatened either, I only came to warn you.”

“You shouldn’t have done that, I was perfectly happy before hearing your threats.” She retorted.

“We used to be friends or at least, we thought we were. What happened to us?” Alaric looked her dead in the eye.

“I started to dig out the truth about the biggest mysteries of my life and somehow you’re stuck on the part that disgusts me the most.”

“The first you met me, you gushed about how different I was and how much of a better man I was compared to my father. What changed?”

Orfilia forced herself to meet his eyes for the first time. “If you want to know the truth, you need to ask your father to tell you about the killing spree he embarked on over a decade ago. His thirst for power ruined a lot of peopl