THE ULTIMATUM

Alarick crushed the plush leather seats beneath his palms as he fumed.

"What the hell did you just do? You had the audacity to try and run away even when I told you what would happen?"

"What did you expect me to do? Sit down and look pretty for people who would hate me if they knew I am not as rich as they are? Wait for a man who keeps insisting that I killed my own father and who has kept me in his house against my will for this long?"

Alarick's eye twitched and the veins on his neck became more prominent as he clenched his jaw.

"So, you abandoned one of the most influential women in the city just so that you could go back out to continue your killing spree with Dylan? Is destroying people's lives more important than doing the right thing?" He yelled back.

Charlotte stayed silent, at a loss for words because of what Alarick had said. After all her confessions on how she wasn't complicit in Dylan's crimes, after all she had done to show Alarick that she was innocent, after the damn ki
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