“Don’t worry, Mr.

Reid. I’ll settle this.”

Darius nodded,

then closed his eyes and fell silent.

Viktor was

terrified. He cried, “Darius, let me go this once, please! I didn’t do

anything—I didn’t even speak to the woman! I merely agreed with what Lyon

said.”

Lyon’s eyes

bulged. He spat on the ground and growled, “If you had the least bit of shame,

you wouldn’t have said that. When we came across situations like this in the

past, it’s not like you didn’t get anything out of them. Now that the sh