#Chapter77
/"It won’t make her love you any less,/" Lycus told him. Their words confused me, and I tried to process what he meant. I wanted desperately to ask, yet my tongue felt thick in my mouth. I glanced at Darius, who had an indecipherable expression. Worry etched on his handsome face, a crease forming between his eyes as I stared up at him questionably.
Darius licked his lip, and his eyes went to mine and softened slightly. /"There is a reason they are called keepers. They are keepers of more than magic, Aleera. You get their magic, but you also get all their secrets, even the ones we haven’t told each other./" Darius murmured the last part as if he had just remembered that. Was that what Kalen was worried about? I knew that already, so why was he so scared of me learning about his past? The atmosphere in the room changed now that Darius spoke up. A nervous ripple coursed through all of them as they watched me.
