Alaric’s POV:

Fuck. Me.

It should’ve pissed me off that Meadow was willing to go to this length just to stop me from killing that bastard when she couldn’t even give me a reason not to.

And it did. Pissed me the hell off.

But the words she had just whispered appealed to me in a way that no one else would understand. Not even her. They appealed to a part of me I wasn’t ready to show her yet, and I could hear it calling out to me.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Meadow ...