Chapter 39

She couldn't resist the compulsion to leave the room, so she scurried out of the room in fear, leaving just Alaric and me as he still stared at me with his eyes wide open from shock but also amusement. He has never seen me take out my anger like this except for the one time that I did it with the devil when he tried to kill Alaric, but that only happened because Alaric was in a critical condition. My powers seem to have returned well, and they're not as heavily dependent on Alaric anymore. "Why did I let her leave without ripping her eyes out?" I asked myself, fuming with my hands balled into a fist. Her presence in the room has irritated me, and I wish I had not met her or smelled her. Her smell was still too strong for me in the room, and there was no way I would be able to stay a minute here without losing my mind or puking all over the floor. I wish the ceiling fan would have fallen on her. Without reaching out to Alaric, I turned my back to leave the room, but he was faster, as he