"What's on your mind?" A deep, magnetic voice suddenly broke the silence beside her.

Thalassa snapped back to reality, meeting Lysander's gaze. Quickly pushing aside her swirling thoughts, she managed a smile and said, "Nothing much."

"Were you thinking about Leopold?" Lysander asked out of the blue.

Thalassa was taken aback, hurriedly replying, "No, not at all..."

Lysander's expression darkened, and Thalassa, worried he might misunderstand, quickly added, "I was just wondering why Alaric's mother ended up in the orphanage."

She wasn't lying; that was exactly what she had been thinking about.

She couldn't fathom why Lysander would bring up Leopold out of nowhere.

His name hadn't come up between them in ages.

Especially today, when nothing they did had anything to do with Leopold.

"Really? I thought that scene earlier might have reminded you of him," Lysander remarked.

That scene?

when Susan was sitting by the window, holding her child, it

of Leopold's passing is something she

since evolved from love to

blame upon yourself to protect his reputation. You've kept silent all these years.

never directly discussed this matter since

or cleared up any misunderstandings face-to-face, and Lysander had

he might never have

by her words, but the frost in his

feel wronged," he

death, Thalassa

with him for a long

for what

their share of

did she

you?" Lysander

"No one told me, I overheard

at the hospital, I overheard Amelia and Payton

"Which day?" Lysander insisted.

before replying, "The day you were supposed to

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