VIRIDIN EMPIRE: Aileth didn’t know what took over her. When she saw the man, hiding his disappointment with a smile, standing up and getting ready to leave, it hurt her. Her heart was gripped with fear of losing him. Something in her screamed to stop him and somewhere in her cries, she also felt like she took out her stress. She felt everything was blurred in her mind. She craved this peace and threw every thought she had at the back of her mind to savor this. “My! My! Never thought my daughter was such a crybaby!” the duke teasingly said, causing her to sit up properly and face him this time without crying and being agitated. “What happened, dear? Why did you cry so much? You worried about your father a lot” he asked gently, scared that she would start crying once he teased her agai

