Darian held my gaze and his ’I am’ was lost on me. How on earth was he helping the situation? He wasn't doing anything to get us out or make his former queen shut the hell up. She was just allowed to say whatever she wanted and we just had to stand her and listen to her mid-numbing voice that made me want to claw my ears off.

“How is that?” I scoffed.

It was followed by a silence, a pause, a nothingness that was louder than anything that had been said and then we heard ...