"What's on your mind?" A deep, magnetic voice suddenly broke the silence beside her.

Thalassa snapped back to reality, meeting Lysander's gaze. Quickly pushing aside her swirling thoughts, she managed a smile and said, "Nothing much."

"Were you thinking about Leopold?" Lysander asked out of the blue.

Thalassa was taken aback, hurriedly replying, "No, not at all..."

Lysander's expression darkened, and Thalassa, worried he might misunderstand, quickly added, "I was just wondering why Alaric's mother ended up in the orphanage."

She wasn't lying; that was exactly what she had been thinking about.

She couldn't fathom why Lysander would bring up Leopold out of nowhere.

His name hadn't come up between them in ages.

Especially today, when nothing they did had anything to do with Leopold.

"Really? I thought that scene earlier might have reminded you of him," Lysander remarked.

That scene?

window, holding her child, it

image of Leopold's passing is something

long since

You've kept silent all these years. Does it not weigh on you?" Thalassa found herself staring into Lysander's eyes, her

never directly discussed this matter since the truth

hadn't expressed understanding or cleared up any misunderstandings face-to-face, and Lysander had never

brought up Leopold today, he might never have addressed this

was steady on her, not surprised by her words, but the frost in his eyes seemed to

wronged," he

him for a long time, blaming him for what happennes

did she

you?"

head, "No one told me, I overheard it

day at the hospital, I overheard Amelia

"Which day?" Lysander insisted.

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