~Declan~
We wait calmly for Xyana to wake up. None of us are in a hurry. We don't say a word to each other while we're seated waiting. But we all might as well be thinking the same thing.
'Xyana cannot reject us.'
We're too neck-deep into all of this to accept a rejection from her. All I've thought about the past week is marking and claiming her during the coming ceremony. Now all of that thought will have to be put on hold until we sort this out.
Clifton has the details; all we need is to draft a well-thought-out plan, and whoever this bastard Kedar is, would disappear forever. I don't care if he's a cousin to the goddamn moon Goddess!
Until then, we need Xyana to be on the same page with us. She stirs in her short slumber that was initiated by Clif. Gradually, her eyes come open, a
