I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was as if the ground beneath me had opened up and swallowed me whole. Darian? My Darian? The one that I loved, the one I had given my heart to, was the very same monster who had brutally murdered my parents? I wasn't even supposed to be laughed at for thinking ever, that he might have tried saving them. He killed my parents? Who loved him and cared for him like they did for me and Cara. The gravity of the reality was too much to grasp. It would have been easy to just dismiss Cara's claims as pure bluff but I could not possibly do that. I knew how much she loved and adored Darian as well. No wonder that intensity of betrayal had been so heavy on my little sister's innocent heart as a mere child, that her senses had thought of shutting a ch

