Chapter 37 Queen's Birthday

• The ride home was quiet, the kind of silence that wasn’t uncomfortable but rather reflective. Ann sat beside Darius in the sleek black car, her gaze fixed on the trees rushing past the window. Her mind replayed snippets of the day, Mia’s enthusiasm for the upcoming party, her friends’ laughter, and, of course, the lingering weight of her new reality as a blood mage.
• Darius sat beside her, one hand casually resting on the wheel, his expression stoic. He had barely spoken since they left school, but that was typical of him. Words weren’t his forte unless they were necessary.
• Something in Ann told her that he was quite mad about what Seth said in the cafeteria, she had a little feeling that he was somehow sorry for how he acted in the past now that he had a mate, but she still wondered why he kept his distance away from her.