Darius smiled but he searched Anne's eyes. He knew his life until this moment and how he had been treated. Her words were so supportive and he wanted to believe but the suspicion was still there, the doubt that welled up under the surface. "Oh yes, I will try to make you proud, mother.." He waved her off, "Pearl is nice to me. I am not worried about here, she wants to be her own woman right? Not depend on the family and all, isn't that why she moved out in the first place?" Wasn't it?