Chapter 37 Glistening golden eyes

I split my lips, my mouth getting dry as I look at Alaricus, but he doesn't raise an eyebrow. We sit in silence while he keeps his head down, staring at the floor rather than me, but his full bottom lip quivers.

"After that, I was nothing. There was nothing left for me; I was a beast, a horrid beast, who was the reason my beautiful mother and siste