#d. drowandruil

It wasn't like Alvaro could ignore her forever. Well, he hadn't really been ignoring her. It was more of an avoidance. Maybe it wasn't even that. He just hadn't really gone out of his way to see her. There had been a lot on his mind and there was a lot he didn't really want to think about that came with it. Kaan was...well, that was one thing he didn't want to remember. However, it meant that Raffaele was safe now and that was all he could really hope for at the end of the day. Maybe Jianyu was fine, too, but the vampire had left. Alvaro felt like he should have looked out for Raffaele with the absence of both of his father figures, but Efigenia had somewhat taken up the role. Reluctantly or not, he still wasn't sure. Nevertheless, he still had a business to run. Even after everything that had happened, he felt like it was the best thing to do to take his mind off of everything. And that meant he would have to run into Andruil.

Again, it wasn't like he didn't want to run into her. He just didn't think he should've been running into her. Of course, he remembered the fact that she had sought him out during all of the chaos to apologize to him, but he had just been so preoccupied that the conversation had ended just as quickly as it had begun. And now here they were. They ran a business together, but he hadn't been there for a while because he had just felt like there was a part of him that was responsible for what had happened to his old friend. But that also meant that anything could happen to the people he cared about and there wasn't anyone he cared about as much as he cared about as much as he did Andruil. So he bit the bullet and headed to Grazie's because there was really no reason for him to have avoided her this long. When he saw her, he let out a sigh.