Running Away with Alpha's Baby Bump
He was fury incarnate, a storm in flesh, every strike a promise kept, that no one would touch me, or the child, again.
Darius fought with a different kind of violence. He was precise, every movement calculated. His blade flickered in the dim light, swift and merciless, striking throats, slicing tendons, leaving men writhing before they even realized they’d been cut. Where Kael was fire, Darius was steel. Cold. Sharp. I saw no hesitation in him, only the weight of experience that told me he had done this too many times before.
And I...