Lucian
We thanked Bella for her time and left, heading straight to visit Darian’s grandparents. It was already edging into the evening, but none of us wanted to drag this out. We were all eager to return to our mates the next day, and this was a box that needed ticking.
The moment the staff saw Darian, they opened the gates without question. I couldn’t help the surge of anger that hit me when I saw the house—well-kept, with workers moving around like clockwork. My mother’s relatives were scraping by, barely getting through each day, while these two lived in comfort funded by the same fortune my father stole.
He was a bastard. And every step through that property made my blood boil hotter.
Darian’s grandmother greeted him with a bright smile, but the second her eyes landed on me, it cha
