Chapter 11

-Darius-

"You and Silver seem quite in love as well," I said, and my brother looked at me confused, turning in his saddle a little. "What?"

"Why do you almost sound surprised by it?" he asked.

"Well, eh…"

"I know you don’t like her, but you know I have loved her since we were kids, and she has loved me."

"What?"

I didn’t mean to blurt out the word, but as he spoke of loving Silver since they were kids, I was learning something new. In our old life, he had never confessed that to me. He had never even shown Silver the same interest he showed Katherine, or the interest I thought he had shown her. It seemed now all to be an act. Maybe he had tried to make Father happy, or maybe because he knew he was stuck with Katherine, he tried to make it work. But he had eventually killed her to free himself of her. It was crazy to think about. I had never seen my brother as a cruel person, and even now, despite knowing what he was capable of, I felt no darkness. How could that be? I knew it was