Chapter 124 Perfection

• Alaric was taking his bloody time to get here. Damien had suspected that his brother wouldn’t make things easy for them. He was an incredibly selfish individual, and he only did things when they benefited him. So, for the next few days, Damien tried to get to the very bottom of his nephew’s problem. Not that he was particularly kind-hearted, but solving the issue meant they would leave sooner.
• He could feel tension bubbling within his own family. Edmund had been avoiding everyone else like the plague. His wife seemed to be having a mental breakdown every time he saw her, staring at him wordlessly through eyes filled with hatred, irritation, betrayal… hurt. It was a mix of emotions he didn’t care for.
• And his lover was avoiding him. It was ironic that her guilty conscience was kicking in now, when the deed had already been done and there was far from any redemption. He seriously didn’t see what the big deal was. They were fucking, sure—but how was that anybody’s business except theirs?