32. KAYLA
I downed another glass of water.
Darius stared at me closely as if I was an egg that if handled carelessly would break. The attention was becoming so much that I had to ask.
“What?” I demanded.
Darius widened his eyes and laughed before looking away. He behaved like someone who had been caught doing something bad.
“I was just remembering the younger version of you and trying to see how she managed to grow up into you. You haven’t changed much,” Darius explained with a smile on his face.
“At that age, I had already known that all men had monsters within them. It all depended on how each man chose to fight his demon,” I replied.
Darius narrowed his eyes at me and looked away. “There was once a black bird who had no friends yet a little cricket kept coming to pay it a visit e
