DARIUS’ POV
It had been two days since we discovered that Alara was with child.
I was restless, unable to find my peace each time I remembered it. What was meant to be good news had turned out to give me so much concern.
Asher had been trying to seek my audience, but I had refused to grant it to him until that morning. I realized that having that conversation with him was long overdue.
I let him into the throne room, the place he needed no permission to walk into earlier on. The guards didn’t want to leave him alone with me, but I dismissed them at once with a hand gesture.
“Greetings, King Darius.” He bowed to me, unable to lift his face while I stared at him.
At that moment, the brother that I had known for ages turned out to be a stranger standing in front of me. I knew that t
