And I know it. With absolute certainty.
Yes… I definitely love him.
*****
Dominic
Days later…
The group of men gathered in my room maintained a tense silence, laden with meaning. The dim light barely reaches to illuminate their faces, but I can read in their expressions the same exhaustion, the same contained worry that has accompanied me for days.
"His pride will be his downfall," breaks the silence Alaric, Susy's uncle, with a grave and firm voice. "He thinks he's untouchable, and now he dares to attack his own father."
His gaze sweeps across the room like a judgment. No one contradicts him. No one doubts it.
"We don't want to get involved in their crossfire," he continues, "but if he manages to defeat him… I'm sure he won't take long to appear."
I nod in silence, feeling how ea
