Chapter 46 She Suspected Something

• Darius
• I sat in my room, elbows resting on my knees, fingers pressed against my temples. The weight of the day settled heavily on me, but exhaustion wasn’t enough to quiet my thoughts. Anastasia.
• Her name had been circling in my mind all damn day. Fuck! I had spent hours deliberately avoiding her, knowing that if I let myself be near her—if I even so much as looked at her for too long—I would do something reckless. Something I couldn’t take back, and now, Cassandra was here. In my palace. In my space. A reminder of the duty I had been bound to since birth.