Chapter 201 - 202
As of late, Alistar’s expressions were often characterized by the sort of subtle, saddened looks that hadn’t been a regular sight since he had first come to live in their household.
Was Anice a terrible person for being jealous? She thought this often, always feeling rotten whenever she found herself looking forward to Lessa’s absence, at which point she and Alistar would be free to explore such relations themselves. Just one more week and he would be all hers. Naturally, she should be happy, right?
Anice found no joy in the thought that she wouldn’t see Lessa for many years once the other girl left for the arcannia in Valay. Jealous as she was, her love for her friend far outweighed the envy that she felt towards her. Because of this, Anice had been both confused and depressed in recent weeks, something that she subconsciously blamed on her cousin.
Stupid Alie...
"Hey, hey," she heard Woods whisper to Jaden and the guys. "Alistar and Lessa both aren’t here yet. Half a copper lucet says it’s not a coincidence."
The three others took tactful steps back as Anice turned and kicked Woods in the shin as hard as possible, feeling pain in her toes as she did so.
"Ow!" yelped the pudgy young man, who was dressed in a comfortable set of cotton clothes, browns on whites with his holy oval hanging at his neckline like all others in attendance. "Hells, Anne! You would think I was the one bedding your man—"
She slapped him.
"Such a moron," muttered Jaden.