Chapter Twenty-Eight
The day before the ships’ arrival, Emily woke up particularly depressed. Her nightmares that night had been so bad she’d woken up crying twice. Zaron had been worried that she was sick or in pain, but once she explained that it was just a bad dream, he’d given her exactly what she needed: the comfort of his powerful arms holding her in the dark.
It was that night that Emily faced the truth.
Her fear had come true. She’d fallen for a man from a different planet, a member of a species she still knew very little about.
The realization shook Emily to the core. She couldn’t love Zaron; she simply couldn’t. He was holding her against her will, and his people were planning to invade her planet. What kind of twisted person fell in love under those circumstances? Besides, h
