[Alaric's never been a good liar, but that slip was just careless on his part. Whoops. It was bound to come out sooner or later though. Even he didn't expect to keep up the charade forever.]

Yeah, about that...

[Hey, at least he wasn't attempting to lie to her face about being caught, right? That should count for something. He closes the book he'd been looking through, granting her his full attention.]

When I realized you didn't remember anything, I didn't want to just dump everything onto your lap.