Chapter 353: Chapter 353
"Why didn’t you bring the children?" Alia asked after noticing it was only Gina and Alastor.
"I need a little break so I left them with my mother. It will hopefully help my father to finally acknowledge his grandchildren and see that they are harmless," Gina answered.
Her father was one of the humans who disliked demons and wanted them gone. He wasn’t thrilled to hear Gina was with Alastor so he spoke to her less. Her mother was excited to have her stop working and focus on starting a family. She could not change who Gina settled with and since demons had beco a normal sight, she grew accustod to it.
"They will get another chance to see Cyrus since he is forbidden from leaving the castle. Are you still with Jahi or did you move on?" Gina asked, hoping Cyrus had woken up and realised that he did not need Jahi.
"Jahi isn’t alive anymore. I have not moved on anyone yet and I don’t want to. It is a little strange to see the two of you with children and I am a little confused," Cyrus said, looking at Alastor. The last ti he was in the north castle, Gina and Alastor did not get along. Now they are together.
"It’s been ten years and I am still confused. What have you been doing in the underworld for the last ten years? Just sitting around?" Alia questioned.
"There wasn’t anything else to do, but I did visit this world from ti to ti. I just stayed away from this kingdom since I wasn’t ready to face you yet. I moved around a lot so you wouldn’t have been able to find . Did your grandmother pass?" Cyrus asked as it was odd for Margaret to not be here.
"Well, you see. Ugh," Alia paused to smile since she didn’t know how to say what happened to her grandmother with the children around. It wasn’t sothing she told Silas or Aydan yet. "By now, she has certainly passed, but we weren’t in a good place when she was still alive. When I returned to the castle to take it from Fraser, she revealed that she didn’t like Killian for
and she had a role to play in what happened to my mother."
Cyrus found that hard to believe since Margaret was Alia’s greatest supporter. He was certain he rembered it correctly that Margaret was the one to bring up a marriage to Killian to Alia. How had that changed?
"I’m sorry about that," Cyrus said since he knew how much Alia loved Margaret. There were so many important things about her life that he missed when she needed another shoulder to lean on.
"It’s fine. So many years have passed for
to get over it and I was blessed with more grandmothers. They don’t co to the castle often since they haven’t gotten over people wanting to burn them. I would have to go to their hos, but my mother will be here so that you can et her. She is with Leonard now. He went from my uncle to my father," Alia joked.
Killian touched Alia’s hand, wanting her to be done with her conversation with Cyrus. If he wanted to know what happened to everyone, he should have been here instead of coming at the end when everything was all said and done. Cyrus did nothing to make Killian think that he was the slightest bit useful. Loki was a better guard to Alia than Cyrus ever was.
Killian looked across the table at where Alastor sat with Gina and thanks to knowing Alastor for a long ti, he could tell that Alastor was over this conversation. Killian would rather Alia be questioning about the fire Aydan accidentally started thanks to him than listen to her catch Cyrus up on her life.
"You shouldn’t ruin this for her father," Mara whispered, though it was pointless since they were in a room full of demons.
"Ruin what?" Alia questioned, turning to look at the two who imdiately took up a cup and pretended to drink so they could avoid answering her. Alia shook her head. Mara was a sweet child, but then she had monts of being too much like her father.
"They aren’t happy that our attention is on Cyrus. They can disappear if they want since we are going to be talking about Cyrus all night long. Maybe I should have brought my children to et you," Gina said, now starting to regret her decision.
Still, she knew that if she heard them complaining about sothing each other did, she would want to send them to her mother.
"I am surprised you found soone."
Gina picked up a knife and pointed it at Cyrus. "What is that supposed to an? The only reason I wasn’t married when you were here years ago was because all my attention was on Alia. That is all."
"Right," Cyrus said, not believing it.
"It is true! If I didn’t have to tend to Anelia and follow her to the north, I would have been long engaged. Then when I returned with her all the n who had so interest in
were scared because I was around demons. You have no idea how many n wanted to marry !" Gina argued.
Alia glanced at Alastor who seed quite interested in hearing exactly who these n were. Alia wanted to know too since she and Gina spoke about almost everything, but she never heard of a lot of n courting her. She was aware of two guards who liked Gina.
Alia smiled as it felt like the old days with Gina being competitive when it ca to Cyrus. She was so competitive that she forgot Alastor was sitting right beside her. Alia would never speak of any n she knew liked her when Killian was around. She wouldn’t put it past her jealous husband to go looking for those n despite the fact most of them had to be married by now.
"What are the nas?" Alastor asked. He’d hate to think it was anyone he still passed by in the castle. "So I can watch my back."
Gina froze, now realising that she said this in front of Alastor. They once had an argunt about her knowing the won he had been with. She told him that he had to point them out so she knew to be wary and not try to befriend one of them and have it thrown in her face later. She told him there was no one in her life and there was truly no one, but she couldn’t let Cyrus think that it was strange she got married.
"There is no one-"
"So you were lying to make another man think that you had many offers? Why should his opinion matter? He is a low demon," Alastor said, looking at Cyrus who was far below his rank as a demon. It was almost pathetic for him to be seated at this table.
"Alia once said she thought the two would get together," said Killian.
Alia whipped her head around to look at Killian. Why was he bringing her into this? Why say that now when this could have all been easily cleared up? Was he trying to get Alastor to go back disliking her or...
Alia glared at Killian now that she realised what he was doing. Rather than him being the one to chase away Cyrus, he was making Alastor angry to do it for him. Alastor was so loyal to Killian that there was no need to make him angry to get rid of Cyrus. All Killian needed to do was give Alastor the order and he would get rid of Cyrus.
"I am warning you for the last ti that if you don’t stop this, you will have to find your way into one of our children’s bedrooms tonight. I don’t need you to like him but stop instigating fights. That was a long ti ago, Alastor. I don’t think there is anyone better for Gina than you. Now, can we please have a peaceful dinner or do you need motivation to not ruin it?" Alia asked, tapping her fingers on the table.
Minus the children, the next person to ruin her dinner would find themselves flung across the room.
"Gina and I are close to Cyrus so you two need to get used to it. Now I am thinking that it would be a good idea for the three of you to go on a little trip tomorrow and you should take Silas. He could use a little ti around n. And my sweet little boy will tell
everything he hears, right?" Alia asked, looking down the table at Silas who nodded his head.
Alastor started to make plans that would have him busy tomorrow. Cyrus dreaded being with two n who hated him so he started to co up with a good excuse to get out of it.
Killian could not believe that Alia was making him play nice with Cyrus. "You’re evil," he said.
"I’m a demon," Alia shrugged her shoulders. "If the three of you get into a fight and hurt my precious son, I will find a way to kill all of you."
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