[DAMIAN]

Alaric scoffed at the remark I'd made. “I find it so hard to believe—no offense,” he added, “that someone who was so conflicted about my ward—someone who held so much resentment for my decision to keep her as if she were my own is so....sentimental.”

“My resentment for your decision wasn’t about your wisdom. Admittedly, Lyra's happiness did play a part in it. However, it was more to it than that.""And what reasoning would that be?" He asked, though I was sure we both ...