Chapter 146

Meadow’s POV

I didn’t want Alaric to even meet me at the house. 

I had planned to pack up and be out of there before he got back, but I was trying to summon the courage to tell Nova about it. I had been ignoring her calls the whole day because I wasn’t ready to talk to her about what had happened from the night we went to Vegas.

I was going to get my own apartment, but I wouldn’t be able to do so in such short notice. So I had to call her. She didn’t ask me any questions. Not yet.

In her own words: “Let’s get you out of there and make you feel better, and then I can get mad at you.”

I didn’t cry when I was still with Alaric in his office, but the moment I got home, it was as if the dam fucking broke and let all the tears out.

I was stupid. So stupid to think that Alaric felt a certain way about me only based on how he treated me. He wanted to feel me, take care of me… fuck me…

And nothing else. And I was foolish to thin