Chapter 48

I couldn’t speak.

Couldn’t think.

Because everything had changed.

Darius had kissed me.

Not gently. Not like a mistake. Like a choice. A deliberate, calculated decision.

I was still pressed against him, my fingers clenched in his tunic, my lips still tingling from the pressure of his.

My breath was uneven, and I hated that he noticed.

His ice-blue eyes burned into mine, his expression unreadable,