Chapter 111

Alaric’s POV

‘I’m not a good man.’

That was what I kept chanting in my mind with every second that passed and every wave of guilt that washed over me.

I was lying to her. Pretending as though I didn’t already know who her father was. As though I wasn’t the one who put him in prison.

But hearing Meadow talk about the kind of person Clint Russell was made me want to kill him, to rid her of him for good. 

Meadow didn’t know love as a child, and it was all because of him. My father was also terrible, but at least, Nolan and I had our mother—even though she suffered a lot in place of us.

The fact that Meadow blamed herself for how she was treated… it nearly ripped my heart out of my chest.

All I wanted to know right now was why the fuck her father was trying to contact her from prison after all these years. And I would—later.

But for now…

“Still think it was your fault?” I asked after a moment of silence. She’d b