"Leave. Since you like taking your own decisions, go and live by yourself. Don't come back until I call for you. And you are forbidden from contacting any members of the Titan Edge guild or asking for their help."
"B-Brother? Why are you—"
"Leave, Celia von Rae. Or do you want me to repeat myself a third time?"
The coldness in his voice made her look down at the floor.
She stood there, waiting for him to say something different, to soften, to give her even a hint of the warmth he had always shown her before.
But he didn't.
Instead, he stood from his chair and walked past her without another word, leaving her alone in the silent office.
She stayed still for a moment.
Slowly, tears began to fall from her eyes.
…
Alice POV
Alice had finished tending to the last of the wounded.
Many of the awakened she worked on had been in critical condition, but now most were stable enough to be moved to the hospital.
They had thanked her while crying.
