Chapter 391

Alaric

We ate in silence for a while. The food was good, better than I'd expected from a family restaurant in Connecticut. Around us, conversations flowed, families laughed, the kind of normalcy I'd never quite managed.

"Elowen called me yesterday," Julian said suddenly.

I looked up. "What did she want?"

"To ask about you. Said you've been distant lately. Not answering her calls."

"I've been busy.