There was no way in hell I was going to let Darcy be tortured again. Once had been enough to fracture my sanity, and I wasn’t sure I’d ever recover from it. This wasn’t how this was supposed to go. She was never meant to come here. The price of the curse was my pain, not hers. “Lance,” Darcy hissed, shooting me a furious look as she pulled her hand from mine. “Don’t say that.”