Chapter 165

• "Dad?! Alpha Derrick?!"
• At my alarmed interjection, the city newcomers howled with laughter as though in a practiced innuendo. I stood there, still, in Alfred's arms_which I wasn't even thinking about due to my obvious astonishment. "So it's true?" I quizzed in a soft voice.
• "What is true, dear daughter? The fact that I am alive despite that cursed husband of yours trying to kill me? Or, that I am here?"My father inquired as their laughter lessened.