Alaric’s POV:

I was barely standing on the threshold, and the air between us changed, turning heavy and charged with some kind of electricity.

I had no idea what I was expecting when I got here, but…holy fuck.

Meadow looked phenomenal. And even that was an understatement. I hadn’t seen her in a month and I could see that a lot of things had changed about her. Not just physically. She’d gotten much more fierce and feisty.

I fucking loved that.

I wanted to touch her. God. She was ...