Missed by a few hours? Darius wanted to whine about it, but he could feel the kind of fear that still rattled Millicent even until now that she was nothing but safe in the walls of the estate Nicholai built. The lesser Alpha sighed and rubbed his neck. "It didn't miss me by a few hours.
"I met Nick the night before I left with the kids." Her eyes grew sharper and more merciless in glaring at him. "From the way you and Frey said things, it was seriously hell in this city by then. It's just that… Nick was already asking me to be his mate by then. I just had a feeling that he waited for me to leave first before hitting the entire city.
"I wasn't lucky. He willingly spared me."
