#Chapter 187: What’s In The Rulebook

Cara’s POV “Alaric,” I said with shock, surprised beyond all reason to see him standing there. I had been so convinced at the restaurant that I had dreamed him, that I had insisted Noel take me home early. I’d been too rattled to eat. Yet he was here. That could have genuinely been him I saw through the window. “If you’ll excuse me,” he said, and went to step around me. I was so startled, that I nearly didn’t stop him. He was halfway down the sidewalk before I turned and called after him, “Hey! Wait!” He stopped as I came closer. I walked around him to look at his face, but he looked away from me. “What are you doing here?” I asked. “I just wanted to see the kids,” he said. I was happy that he wanted to be a good father, but it still stung inside of me that he didn’t come here, at least in part, to see me. “Were you…” I started, then stopped. I felt somewhat foolish for asking. Though, after a moment, I knew that I had to know for sure, and the only way to discover t