DARIAN’S POV

I lifted my head and met the Council member's prideful glares with a careless one of my own. But they were suspicious. Every other time that they had delivered the next one of their little games, I'd read it right away and then we’d have a drink and I would act like they weren't the scum of the earth who all deserved a painful death preferably at my hands.

It was easy those times because I'd been prepared, I had time to get everything in order and the herbs were ...