Chapter 15

Darius’s POV

Ajax Salvatore sat exuding command and power. Although well older than a millennium, he looked ravishingly handsome, like a human man in his thirties. But his eyes gave him away; in them, you could see the evil and darkness that he was forged of.

“You took quite a while at the door.”

My smile widened. “Ah, yes. I was admiring the door… so rich and finely crafted. Plus, it holds many memories.”

His face remained as it had always been, cold and emotionless.

“You’ve changed, Darius. Grown, not just physically but in everything. You’ve unlocked that thing you kept locked up centuries ago.”

“I like to call it evolution. I have certainly evolved over the centuries.”

He nodded in agreement.

“But that’s not why you’ve requested my presence, Ajax, is it?”

For a second, I saw the flash of anger before he was able to conceal it.

I like games like this.

“Yes, I called you for a different reason. You disappeare