The silence in the car was heavy. Daemon kept his eyes on the road, while Evelyn stole glances at him from time to time.
She could feel it, from his face, his eyes, his demeanor, that Daemon was angry, or rather, he was failing to hide it now. It was anger unlike any she had ever felt from him before. Even the night he took her away in a helicopter, he had only been cold, but not as angry as he was now.
Evelyn remembered the fright she had felt when Daemo had confronted the leader of the group she had thought was reinforcement. It was a side of Daemon she had never seen before.
After stealing another glance, Evelyn was about to look away when Daemon broke the silence, his voice low:
"Wars have never stopped, and fighting is happening at every moment of the day in different corners of the world. But that is the world of darkness, and I have left it. What happened today shouldn't have happened."
After a moment, Evelyn asked quietly:
