Lol this book made me question the darkling’s advances again. I don’t know if he was manipulating Genya because the things he did were similar to Alina’s. I still want to believe that a part of him cared, that there was still chastity left in him. But nevertheless, the only thing he did was comfort her and it did not justify all those shitty things he did to her on the books. She is not ruined, she is ruination.