Chapter 40
Alaric's POV
I was having a hard time accepting the fact that Adrian wasn't my son. I had even checked the results myself to confirm. I had always believed he was; I was almost completely certain. The one percent was the doubt that terrified me into avoiding a DNA test.
I guess I was a coward like my father said. I didn't have the balls to get my heart broken yet, but finally it did, breaking into fragments that pierced my soul. I felt Storm clawing from within me, tearing me apart from the inside out, but I didn't want self-harm to be a pattern. I had to break it, learn to accept it, and endure until I healed... if at all I would.
When Jack Phillip met me, screaming that he had a secret about Samantha to tell me, of course he was met with resistance from the mansion's guard
