“Bond?” I growled the word, thinking of the Guardian bond which had caused him such suffering, but he shook his head. “This bond requires nothing of me, it only provides me a sort of kinship with Caleb,” he explained. “It’s more than that,” Darius said, his eyebrows raised in surprise. “You’ll be worse with him than you are with your precious Noxy.” “Fuck off, he’s not worse with anyone than me,” Gabriel growled,
