Chapter 415

Daphne's POV

Elias found me when I was alone.

Not at Finnian's house, or a room with staff. A private lounge he had booked like it was nothing, the kind of quiet place men used when they did not want their names on a reservation list. I should have walked out the second I saw him standing there with a drink in his hand and that smile that never reached his eyes.

I did not walk out.

"Daphne," he sa