Chapter 25

Selah’s POV

Darius stepped closer to me.

I took a step back.

A mistake.

Because he followed.

Slow. Purposeful.

I swallowed hard, my back pressing against the rough stone of the training ground wall. His towering frame blocked everything else out, his piercing blue eyes watching me like a predator waiting for its prey to make the wrong move.

“You’re here,” he murmured, voice low. “Because you want