Chapter 153

• Alaria:
• The door opened again, slow this time, as if he enjoyed the sound of his own entrance. I was sitting in the living room, the first room that I’d entered since the bedroom that I’ve been staying in.
• I didn’t look up at first. The sight of him had already carved itself deep enough into my mind. But when his footsteps stopped a few feet away, I lifted my gaze. My eyes as cold as ice, and my gaze as hard as steel as I kept looking at him.