NYSERA Alaric's sudden confession of his love caught me off guard. I honestly thought that I had been hearing a different thing, because in the first place, I only thought that he has some feelings for me — maybe like. But love? That's something deeper and I haven't thought of it before. It's easy to claim that he likes me, but for him to express that what he is feeling is love seemed to be too much. I don't know where he started getting that feeling, but I suddenly felt that the development was too rushed. Could it be that Alaric is just confused and he doesn't know the difference between the two? Before I could even answer my own question, Alaric placed a kiss on my forehead and told me to get inside the house since it's already late, and my condition is not that great, too. I have

