"It was two years ago when I first met Gabriel in a ball," Seraphina explained, her eyes lowered to the ground. The lamps cast soft shadows across her features as she walked beside Vlad. "He offered to dance with me. I did not know his intentions and agreed to dance with him. During the performance he began touching me inappropriately."
She released a small chuckle, laughing at her own childish mind from two years ago as she continued, "I did not know the intent behind his touch, so I said nothing. He mistook my silence for consent. It was then that he deluded himself into believing I liked him. Father understood the intent behind his inappropriate touch during the dance and burst into anger. He exiled him from the family, stripped him of all his assets, including his home, and banished him from our hometown with a warning that if he ever appeared before either of us again, he would kill him."
