Behind Guarded Eyes

Valerie’s POV

My heart beat wildly in my chest as I looked into Darius’s eyes. He was always so guarded, yet for the first time, I felt like I was seeing something in him that he usually kept hidden from me?

Typically, Darius looked at me in a very guarded sort of way, seemingly looking through me rather than at me. Many times I wondered if he was seeing Valerie in my visage, and was unable to see