~RYLAN

Cassian didn’t understand. No one could.

I paced over the floors of my room, thinking about the stake involved for the hundredth time.

“I can’t let him take her away from me,” I mumbled, hitting my hands together.

Lyon was not going to leave on his own. He wouldn’t stop chasing my Nyra…

In fact, no one who truly knew who she was… how she felt… no one could let her go.

“I will have to protect her,” I hissed.

There was no way I would sit quietly and allow Lyon snatch my ...