Chapter 88.

HAZEL’S POV Everyone stopped in the halls and the housemaids retreated to their chambers after Gabe roared through the palace ordering everyone to call it a night. We stood in the hallway to Darian’s office and Gabe’s voice filled every square inch of the gigantic hallways and hundreds of rooms, it traveled through doors and walls and everyone scurried with their buckets and brooms back to their tower- probably feeling more safe there than in Gabe’s presence right now. “No one can know that Darian is gone,” he said. I watched his back as we rushed to Darian's office. His shoulders were raised and his muscles pressed against the t-shirt he was wearing. They looked a lot alike from behind, Darian was slightly broader and his presence sucked the life out of everything he passed but other than that. Watching him move in a hurry to find his brother I wondered If what he said was the truth. Darian wasn’t above lying, what proof did I have that I could trust Gabe? We walked in and he went str