Chapter 534 - Who Are YOU? (1/2)

I am so sorry...

I'm sorry for hiding my identity from you when we first met ...

I'm sorry for not knowing how to behave when I requested information about your whereabouts from Kurt, thus causing his death ...

Forgive me for thinking that you really are gone. Four years ago, I even stopped looking for you...

Alaric continued to apologize for all the things he considered his mistakes, for all the things which caused him to separate from Aleksis for ten years. However, it was now too late for self-blame. The lost time would never return.

Aleksis looked closely at the man's face and tried to remember where she had seen him. She could not remember. Yet people with a face as attractive as this, there was no way she could possibly forget.

”Who are you?” asked Aleksis once more.

Before the man could answer, a beautiful girl entered the library and approached him. Sophia arrived just before the party began. Not long after, she learned from Portia that Alaric was behaving strangely as he looked for the host's daughter.

Not wasting time, she hurriedly went after Alaric to the library. She was eager to witness the chaos that would soon ensue. A faint smile bloomed on her face when she found Alaric and Aleksis facing each other awkwardly.

”Hey, you're actually here. Aunt Portia is worried about you since you still haven't come back. She asked me to look for you.” She took Alaric's arm and turned to Aleksis, ”Do you know each other?”

Alaric quickly broke free from Sophia's grip. ”That is none of your business.”

”Who are you two?” Aleksis asked again in a probing tone.

”Oh, sorry, we didn't have time to introduce ourselves. We're waiting for the program this evening to start. I'm Sophia Meier, and this is ... my cousin.”

Aleksis was stunned. When she heard the name of the woman before her, she subconsciously stepped back as if she was distancing herself from an enemy. Alaric felt puzzled by her attitude.

”How dare you to come here!!! Your brother almost killed me 28 years ago!” Aleksis hissed in hostility, ”You are not welcomed in our house!”

”What did she mean by your brother almost killed her?” Alaric asked Sophia in a voice as cold as ice. ”What did your brother do to Aleksis?!?”

Sophia felt cornered and subconsciously stepped back, trying to avoid the gaze of the man who seemed ready to kill her with a single blow at any moment. She knew that Alaric was a cold person, but Sophia never knew he could be this scary. She had never seen him sporting this kind of expression.

Aleksis watched the two with a thudding chest. The more she heard Alaric's voice, the more she felt it was familiar. She hadn't heard this voice for a long time ...

But Aleksis didn't know his face at all. Who was this person really? Her heart wondered. Ugh ... if Sophia didn't come, she would have forced the man to confess his true identity to her.

”What's with the commotion here?” Suddenly a young man in casual clothes entered the library. His face was very handsome. He had long hair that was tied carelessly using a blue string. His eyes that were dark blue and reminiscent of the deep ocean was currently narrowed at the tense atmosphere among the three people at the place.

On Nicolae's raised right arm was Vega who was clinging happily like a koala. She smiled broadly while swinging, showing how strong her pair of tiny hands were, that she could casually hold her weight like that.

Her beautiful face, platinum blonde hair and witty blue eyes looked very similar to Altair's, so Alaric immediately thought the child was Altair.

Oh ... this is the kid chasing a butterfly this afternoon, thought Alaric.

He said my voice was like lavender.