She shouldn't be grateful, she shouldn't even feel anything close to gratitude to Alaric since he is the one who caused all this. No one could ever equal the cruelty she had faced at the hands of her husband. At least Nyxus only marked her but has not meddled with her affairs yet. On Alaric, with the few days they have been together, he has killed her parents, taken over her kingdom, and has let her people suffer a great deal. Therefore, there shouldn't be anything left for him but hatred and the utmost desire to kill him slowly.
Still, as she stared at her parents' bodies lowering to the ground under the church of the kingdom where all the past Kings, Queens, and other royalty of Castille were laid to rest, she was at ease, knowing that she was there when they were taken there and that A
