Chapter 109

Darius's POV

The Hemlock courtyard felt suffocating, as though the walls themselves were pressing on my chest. Every step echoed with the reminder that I had been too complacent. If I hadn't been so obsessed with the fact that I was their target, maybe... maybe this wouldn't have happened. Valerie wouldn't have been kidnapped.

When I saw that the room was a mess, and the warrior I stationed at our