Chapter 51

Darius’s POV

She left. And with her, she took the little amount of interest I had managed to muster for the party.

I would have preferred being anywhere but here in a hall with bloody vampires, listening to their fake and boring talks. At best, I would have preferred being locked away in my bed chambers with her in my arms. But reality had found its way back to us, and our brief romance game had come to an end.

“I will never be yours while you’re wed to another.”

The determination in her voice when she said those words was unmistakable. Every trace of affection for me in her eyes was gone.

That wasn’t the tender Fallon whose body I had come to worship. That was Fallon, the assassin.

“She knew the risk,” I reminded myself.

She knew our affair lived on borrowed time, and one day, it would come to a halt. Still, I was ready to risk it all. Ready to keep her.

Heck! I would have changed the damn rules to be able to keep her by my sid