Chapter 10 WHO COULD IT BE? It had to be a male, of course. Maybe it was the guy they wanted me to marry? I shouldn’t care who it was because, in the end, it wasn’t Tavlor. He was the only person who meant the world to me, the only one I wanted to settle down with and have a family with. If it wasn’t him, what did I care? What would the Council’s chosen champion be like? Malleable and weak? Or super confident and have a supremacy complex? A lapdog, who wanted nothing more than to make the Council happy, no matter what the cost? I shuddered at the idea of being married to either sort of man. Any man that wasn’t Tavlor wasn’t good enough for me, in my book. “My daughter,” my father said again and this time I couldn’t stop the smile that sprang to my face. It truly sounded like he was

