Chapter 12

"You monster, you killed my whole family and today marks the end of you!" The voice yelled again and it was then I knew it was something really serious. I ran out of the room, still in my wine dress to meet Alaric standing elegantly with no emotion of being bothered. The man who was yelling was about to stand Alaric with the small knife he held when his guards suddenly held the man and broke his arms. One of Alaric's guards was about to slit his throat with the knife he had with him earlier and my eyes turned to Alaric, hoping he would stop them and save the poor man. "Stop!" Alaric ordered as he raised a finger to the air, his guards immediately responded and they left the wailing man on the floor to battle with the pain of his broken arms. He was a minor so there was no way he was going to heal very fast. I was somehow glad that Alaric had let them spare his life, maybe he had some conscience after all and wasn't so bad. He slowly walked up to the man and ordered him to stand on his