Lyra POV

I couldn't count the number of times we ended up making love, over and over again.

It was just us, and no one disturbed us, until several hours later, when Xadreien received a summon, that we needed to be there at the family dinner.

I didn't want to go, and I knew he didn't also, but I couldn't tell him that, I'd not I knew he would skip it and I may all over again have to bear the blame, of misleading him.

"Can't we just tell them, we're sick or something, I don't feel like going ...