Chapter 21

• Darius’ words haunted me. Stay with Kelvin, and you’ll die.
• I wanted to dismiss him as a manipulative liar, but the doubt was like a splinter buried too deep to ignore. Yet, leaving with him wasn’t an option. I wasn’t a fool—I knew he had his agenda.
• Kelvin had stayed silent after Darius left. He barely looked at me, but his presence weighed on me like a storm waiting to break. The tension between us was suffocating but…