Zelda clenched her hands into fists under the table. This was going poorly. You did not have to be astute at reading people to know that this was going poorly. You also did not have to be astute to realize that Ari had completely fucked her over, and although she hadn't thought such a thing possible after the last few months, Zelda was now even more furious with him than she had previously thought possible. If things had been going less terribly, she probably would have just stayed at the table, steadily shrinking into herself and wishing that Katia would arrive - Katia, who would believe in the romance of all this - but they had really reached the point where she needed to intervene when Alfred mentioned his flat.

She cleared her throat and straightened. Zelda had never been shy about taking up space and - now was really not the time to start, was it?

"...Father."

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