Rhys’ voice is so cold, there is no emotion in it at all and his eyes are much the same as he stares at the woman who birthed him blandly. Clara is standing at the bars of the cell. She is surprised that he was able to calm his emotions so quickly. Alaric is not like that, she can still feel him seething through the bond which must have reestablished slightly due to proximity. If Alaric wanted to torture her, then that is the right way to go about it, any connection to that man she wants to erase from existence, except, of course, the man standing in front of her. The one good thing to come out of her failed love and life. "Rhys, I am so glad to see you. You have no idea how much I have missed you" Rhys shows nothing, twenty whole years, and she dares to say such things, especially when

