Darius greatly respected her feelings though, which was why despite knowing he could not give her his heart and soul - as those had been forever tied with his wife Deia - he still couldn't find it in his heart to outright turn her down.
It was quite a dilemma.
Darius noted that Portia's gaze towards him was even purer than Derek's. There were no forced implications or hidden hints, just pure happiness and joy for being able to see his face and feel his existence near her.
As the Supreme System had aptly divined, this was a mild obsession. Mild because it didn't drive Portia into a craze where she decided that either she had him or no one will.
Though, that could always change. If the future was already set in stone, accidents would never exist.
