THALIA
“How did you manage to hide Elias from me for years?” Darius asked, looking at me intently.
The question landed on me like a slap. I stared at Darius for a long second, fighting the urge to sigh, snap, and let irritation win over. Anger would only derail this further.
Instead, I took a deep breath and responded. “I didn’t hide him from you until recently. He was with Rael all this time.”
His expression darkened the moment I mentioned Rael’s name. I already anticipated that this would happen, but I still shifted uncomfortably in my seat. His seeing eye gleamed while the other one remained a shade of gray, completely blank.
“So not only did you fake his death,” he said slowly, voice dripping with poison, “you just let our son be raised by some random bastard you fell in love wit
