He should have wanted us to. The other Heirs were my first port of call whenever I needed anything, and I’d always thought that was the same for all of us. But this revelation made me reassess that. Did he really think he couldn’t ask us for help when he so clearly needed us? Darius held my eye for a long moment, his mental walls flickering in and out of place as he fought against the desire to block me out again. He finally sighed, scrubbing a hand across his jaw as he left them down. “That’s not it,” he replied and the honesty in his words made me relax a little. “I just…didn’t want to drag
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