Of course, his decision had nothing to do with Nyx. It had everything to do with what she'd said, though. Not her words specifically but the truth behind them. Alastair had been pretending, and it was most apparent once they were living together and the truth had come out. Charlie was unhappy and Alastair was unhappy, but for diffrent reasons. He couldn't continue to pretend to be someone he wasn't and Charlie didn't want to see him for who he was. It was doomed to fail at this point, and it was best to sever ties now as much as it hurt.
"He wanted me to be someone I'm not and I can't be that," he said a little defensively when she insisted on bringing Rook into this. He had nothing to do with their breakup.
Well, no. Strictly speaking that wasn't true. Charlie had seen Alastair with Rook and that set off the argument that ended things. Maybe it was Rook a little bit, or at least Alastair's reaction to him. Perhaps Alastair had been looking somewhere else for what he should have been receiving from Charlie. Regardless, the damage to their relationship was irreparable because of it.
"I wanted to be that person," he admitted. "He didn't try to make me into anything... I tried to make myself somebody worthy of him and his family but I can't be that. You were right." He grabbed his glass and sat with her, but didn't take a drink. He simply stared into the dark liquid as if it held the answers he needed. "No one is at fault except me."