Lydia, seeing Alaric shake his head, decided not to get up to answer the door.

The doorbell rang for a while and then stopped.

Just as Lydia was about to breathe a sigh of relief, her cell phone buzzed in her pocket.

Checking the caller ID, she saw it was Thalassa calling and quickly answered.

"Lydia, did you swing by Alaric's place to check up on him?" Thalassa's concerned voice came through the phone.

"Yeah, I did. Gave him a shot," Lydia replied.

"Have you left yet?" Thalassa inquired.

"No, still here," Lydia said.

"We're at his doorstep, rang the bell but got no answer," Thalassa explained.

Hold on, I'll come open

quickly got up and headed for

earlier by Angelina and Georgia, instinctively

out, it was

standing there. She was briefly

Hertha entered,

survive. It's just a nasty flu. Not like it's the

a jolt in his heart and excitedly sat up in

a whisper, too

look Hertha had given him when they fast parted, along with

his mouth to speak, then swallowed the words back

believing there could never be anything between them. With that thought, Alaric's briefly recovered energy faded, and he slumped back

wanted to check on him, Alaric quickly lay

as he did, footsteps approached closer

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