“I’m fine, Darius.” The words are quickly spoken because she knows him and she knows what he does and what he wants and he wants to fix this. But there’s nothing to fix not really. This was just something that she’d deal with. The marks from her nails weren’t that bad and the choking hadn’t caused anything to happen to her vocal cords so she would be fine in a few days.

This time anyway. She didn’t know about the next or the time after that or the time after that.

“Anakin is bad news, Dorian. He killed his wife and the mother of his children when she was pregnant. He’s a psycho.”