Alaric’s POV:

‘I’m not a good man.’

That was what I kept chanting in my mind with every second that passed and every wave of guilt that washed over me.

I was lying to her. Pretending as though I didn’t already know who her father was. As though I wasn’t the one who put him in prison.

But hearing Meadow talk about the kind of person Clint Russell was made me want to kill him, to rid her of him for good.

Meadow didn’t know love as a child, and it was all because of him. My ...