Departure with a Belly (Alaric and Victoria)

Chapter 472

When dinner was served downstairs, Victoria and Bane were the only ones at the table.

The others were standing to the side, waiting on them. Victoria did not like being stared

at when eating, so she turned to Bane and said, “Can you tell them to go back to work

instead of staring at us?”

Bane was taken aback by the request. A moment later, he told the servants to leave.

Now that there were only two of them in the room, she felt much more at ease.

As she poked at her food with a spoon, she looked up at Bane.

“Do you have something you wish to say to me?” he asked.

“Yes.”

She nodded. Since he brought it up, she decided to seize the chance to voice her

thoughts. “Ethan has told me about Alaric’s condition.”

He silently stared at her, waiting for her to continue.

“I’m hoping you can promise me something.”

“What is it?”

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“Let him leave here safe and sound.”

Something flickered in his eyes as his lips tilted up in a smirk. “Safe and sound? I’m

afraid that’s impossible.”

“What did you say?” She nearly leaped to her feet when she heard that. “Why not? Are

you going back on your word?”

The sight of panic radiating through her made his eyes darken as he tightly pursed his

lips.

Despite her amnesia, she was still worried about Alaric.

“Do you like him that much?” he asked.

“What does that have to do with anything? You promised me…”

“When did I promise to let him leave unscathed?”

She stared at him in disbelief.

“You really are going back on your word. If so, can I go back on my word as well?”

Before she even finished speaking, he grabbed her wrist.

“Vic. I don’t want to break my promises, but I am unable to let him leave unscathed. He

was already injured when he came. How am I supposed to reverse that?”

She froze.

“All I can promise is that I’ll ensure he gets treated.”

He sighed. “What were you even thinking? Did you think I’m that untrustworthy? Even

without your memories, am I that wicked in your eyes?”

He let sorrow shimmer in his eyes as he turned to her with a hurt look.

For some reason, his gaze made her feel guilty. It felt as though she had done

something unspeakably evil.

She turned away, biting her lip.

“It’s not that. I just misunderstood what you meant.”

She then asked, “Do you mean that you will immediately give him the best treatment

and send him away?”

He smiled once more when he heard the trap she had laid using her words.

“Yes. I can have the best doctors assigned to him and even have him sent back home,

but I have one condition.”

She raised her eyebrows in question.

“What is it?”

“You will be engaged to me.”

The air seemed to be still as she stared at him with a gaze that is slowly turning cold.

“No?” Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

“What do you think?”

“What do we do then? I will only agree to the promise if you promise to get engaged to

me.”

He gently held her hand. “That is my extra condition. You can take some time to think

about it. I’m in no hurry.”

That again.

Once more, he was saying he was in no hurry.

He knew just how hurt Alaric was, yet he said there was no rush.

Who was in a rush? The only person who would be in a rush would be Victoria.

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She bit her lip. “What if I say no? Will you send him away?”

“Of course. I did promise you that. As long as you stay here with me, I can let him leave.

However… I will not be responsible for providing him with the medical equipment and

resources he would need to leave.”

She stared into his eyes.

A few long minutes later, she eventually said, “I hear you used to be friends.”

Her statement caught him off guard. He had not expected her to mention that out of

nowhere.

“Are you that cruel to your friends?”

His smirk vanished, and he steadily gazed at her.

“Your friend is grievously wounded, yet you ignore it. You are even fooling around with

his life. What about the future? Will my life be just a toy to you one day?”

There was a fierce scowl on his face as he instantly objected to her musings.

“That’s impossible! Vic, you know that you are not like the others. You are the most

special person in my heart.”

“Is that so?” She coldly chuckled. “You are not a gentleman at all. You like me now, so

you say I’m special. What about the future? Will you treat me the way you treat others

when you stop loving me?”

His heart skipped in terror.

“What are you saying? I would never act that way to you. You will forever be the most

special person in my life.”

“There is no such thing as forever.”

She impatiently continued, “How old are you? Who would believe in forever? Maybe,

you think I’m just a naive kid who believes in that.”

He grimaced.

“We are still young, so you can fearlessly claim that I’m special. You’ll even make

promises of eternal love. Either way, you lose nothing by saying that. As for whether

you end up fulfilling those promises, who would know?”

He calmly gazes into her eyes once more. “If you don’t believe me, you can stay by my

side to confirm it for yourself.”

“I don’t love you either. Why would I stay by your side just to confirm something so

abstract?”

Her declaration of not loving him was another stab to his heart.

“If this is the way you treat your friends, you’ll end up doing the same to me in the

future. Why would you think I would get engaged to you?”

Her words made him panic.│

His goal had been to make her get engaged to him. He did not think it would make her

think he was a dangerous man. Now, her eyes were filled with fear whenever she

looked at him.

In an instant, he did not know if her fear was an act or her true feelings.

She was a very smart woman. It was not completely impossible for her to put on an act

just to fool him.

However, be her terror an act or the truth, he knew that the way she was looking at him

was panic–inducing.

Thus, he had no choice but to force himself to remain calm as he reassured her, “Don’t

worry about that for now. Let’s have dinner first. We can properly discuss this after our

meal.”

She turned to blankly stare down at the food before letting a peal of laughter burst

through her lips.

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“Today, I am greeted with a feast. Would tomorrow end with me lying injured in some

random place, waiting for someone to rescue me, to save me?”

He fell silent.

“There’s no point to this dinner now.”

She put down her spoon and bitterly smirked.

“It will all end in tragedy anyway. It’s only a matter of time.”

She then shot to her feet to leave the room.

Despite the arteries throbbing in anger on his forehead, he still called out to stop her

from leaving.

“Wait.”

She turned around to coldly stare at him.

“I’ll have someone get him the best medical treatment possible. Are you happy now?”