In the crowd, Sarah’s bitter heart is twisting as she watches Alaric and Sarah dancing once again. She has seen that look on the man enough times to know that Alicia has won him over for the night. She looks at the other two women beside her who are wearing much the same expression. She feels it so much more, it is easy for them to be forgotten, in their places it is expected, but the fall for her has been from such high heights that the landing has been rough.
She didn’t expect to be thrown out at this late stage and when he allowed her to attend with him, she thought that everything was good and Cody’s strange behavior had not affected her too much. She was wrong.
She cannot let it end like this. She stands from her position next to the empty throne once she knows that Alaric isn’t eve
