ARIARowan squared his shoulders. “Yes, I did, you bastard. What are you going to do about it?” Rowan was either very dumb, or he was fine with losing a limb. I turned and landed a quick slap across the face. Red bloomed on his cheeks where I'd just slapped him. While he was still sputtering, I slapped him again across the other cheek. He stumbled back, nearly falling on the floor. My blood was pumping too hard, my pulse pitching somewhere in the sky.“I can't believe I have to say this every time, Rowan, but you were always foolish weren't you?” I looked him square in the eye, feeling bolstered when Caspian placed a hand on my shoulder. “Aria, you didn't have to do that.” I wanted to do that. Darion had passed personal information concerning me to him, and he had gone ahead to act on it, then gloated to me. Was he expecting that I should be pleased by the reality that nothing I'd said to Darion ws private? “You paid Darion, and you're here to gloat? You'll never take my childr
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