Aleksander let out an irritated sigh. He should have killed that pathetic boy. How dare he, powerless and with a too much conflated ego, try and convince Alina that severing a part of herself was the only way for her to be good and just? And she fell for it, because she thought he cared for her when he only cared about himself, hating everything he didn’t understand, including the magic in Alina’s blood.