Chapter 135

• "Get away from her, Alfred," He thundered, the steel in his voice resonating in the gloamy forest. I jumped away from Alfred's grasp, instinctively wiped at the juncture of his hand in mine, and rushed in solace to the side of Alonso.
• "Why do you take so much pride in deception, Alonso?" Alfred asked coldly, his emerald eyes sparkling in the twilight. 'You know you won't marry her and yet you deceive her."
• Alonso scoffed, grabbed me, and placed me behind him, his large arms tucking in front of his broad chest. "Perhaps, I will like you to enlighten me on the kind of deception you mean, Alfred. Because between the both of us, you are the one who has lived your life based on deception... Since you want this, how about you tell us why you rejected your mate you found while in your outrageous exile."