Aria’s POV Lucian was looking at me in a strange way. “I’m serious, Aria. What did Darius do to you?” More like what I did to him. I took a deep breath, forcing myself not to blurt it out. I wasn’t going to be the foolish one here. “He threatened me. But you’ll deal with him at the meeting tonight, right? That’s the whole point…isn’t it?” I searched his face for even the tiniest hint of a lie. To my surprise, Lucian hesitated. I knew it. There was something between them, something he didn’t want me involved in. But it was already too late because I was deeply entangled in all of it. What the four of them wanted no longer mattered. “Don’t tell me Darius has something on you?” Lucian stiffened. “What? What are you talking about?” Whitee’s suspicious thoughts ran through my

