34. 48 Hours

November 2026,

Scars Bay, USA

Katerina

Growing up, Alaric had always been the cool father. There were times when I used to see him with Alya and wish for my dad to be like him. While he always treated me as his daughter, the bond he shared with Alya was incomparable.

While my father also did his best, he was so busy that he didn't get very many opportunities to do it very often. Because of that, I was closer to Alaric than my own father. Well, that was until we thought Alaric left and I started disliking him. 

I remembered him enjoying classical music but what I didn't know was that Alaric had an entire collection of Vinyls in his office. But I suppose it was normal to not remember details of a place you have been only a handful of times more than a decade ago. 

As I went through it, I realized that it was mostly classical music and I didn't recognize most of t