Third Person's POV
At the bar.
"What's going on with Mortimer? He won't say a word, just sitting here drowning his sorrows. This can't be good," Humphrey muttered, leaning in close to Randall and keeping his voice low.
After coming back from the cafe the other day, he had told Alina about Seraphina keeping a "little puppy" at home, only to get thoroughly mocked and scolded by her.
Alina had pointed out that Mortimer treated Vivian like a kept canary. She bluntly said that if she were Seraphina, she would have gone out and found a new lover too, adding that men shouldn't have such blatant double standards.
Humphrey had felt pretty uncomfortable hearing that; he couldn't help but feel like Alina was harboring some resentment toward him as well.
Later, when the misunderstanding was clea
