[ZUHAIR]
"He sounds like he could have been a good father and we would have been a complete family. Remind me to lynch Edison in case I make it to the afterlife too, though I have a feeling Mother would smack me— sorry," Alanor said when he realized what he had just said.
Here he was with Zuhair, a woman who hadn't once heard him call her Mom, and yet he was bragging about his bond with Criselda. Then again, it wasn't Alanor's fault that shit had gone down the drain, if anything, he had been innocent at that time.
"No, you don't have to worry about that. Anyway, to answer your first question about the help of the fates, it wasn't the easiest of choices at that time. Maybe because of my upbringing or maybe because I wanted to trust time and have faith that things would be fine eventually.
