I am so sorry...
I'm sorry for hiding my identity from you when we first met ...
I'm sorry for not knowing how to behave when I requested information about your whereabouts from Kurt, thus causing his death ...
Forgive me for thinking that you really are gone. Four years ago, I even stopped looking for you...
Alaric continued to apologize for all the things he considered his mistakes, for all the things which caused him to separate from Aleksis for ten years. However, it was now too late for self-blame. The lost time would never return.
Aleksis looked closely at the man's face and tried to remember where she had seen him. She could not remember. Yet people with a face as attractive as this, there was no way she could possibly forget.
"Who are you?" asked Aleksis once more.