VAELDRIC POV
The study door slammed shut behind me. I could still hear Seraphina's footsteps fading down the corridor before they disappeared completely. For a moment, neither of us spoke.
Father didn't even look at me. He simply straightened the folders on his desk, as though the conversation that had just taken place had been nothing more than an unsatisfactory business meeting.
I stared at him for several seconds. My chest was still rising and falling, my emotions barely contained.
I'd wanted to argue with him the entire time, but I held myself back because Seraphina was still there. She shouldn't have witnessed the cracks in our family.
"What the hell was that, Father?"
He continued flipping through one of the documents.
"What part?" he asked, still focused on the papers before
