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She was in theout, "Have you gone mad, Sofia?"

She sealed her lips and looked at lare fathers gave their daughters when they were very, very displeased

"You’re amarried to an immortal Do you even realize what that means?"

"Well, it’s not like you didn’t know that he is in with"

I stared at her in disbelief, her green eyes – the sa up at

"Why on earth are you even talking to me about this if you’ve already ainst the stone wall across from the cot and crossed lared at her "You’re still hanging your hopes on this ridiculous idea of a cure, aren’t you?"

She blew out a sigh, her shoulders sagging "If you’d been listening and not finding yourself too busy preparing to throw one of your fatherly fits, then you would’ve heard e Truth be told, I’ why he’s in such a rush Why now? Why does he want to get married all of a sudden?"

It took a couple of seconds before her words registered inif she was playing some elaborate joke onthis Maybe she’s not as stubborn, irrational and immature as I think I’d been toldand free-spirited young woman I wanted to see that side of her, but whenever I laid my eyes on her, all I could really see was a stubborn and rebellious teenager lovesick over a va I could not accept as a hunter

I wanted to capitalize on her doubts, but for the first tiave her the credit she was due and decided to just listen to her "Why do you think you have these doubts?"

"Well, don’t getmore than to ht the urge to give her a violent reaction Calm down, Aiden It’s not like you haven’t seen firsthand howfor me to react to that one, so when I just stood there and stared at her, waiting for her to explain further, she continued her explanation, "I just feel like so Peace has always been my compass, and I don’t have any of that when it comes to this I don’t even knohy"

"If that is so, why did you agree to the wedding, Sofia?"

"Because I love him You know that… He seemed so excited and so into it, it was just hard to say no, but now that I’h for so to do now? Are you still going to push through with it?" I was testing her, wondering how her mind worked, how she made her decisions Up until that ti rather ihtest of whi

"I have to be honest with Derek about this I can’tthis way At least not now I need to have clarity for a coe It would be unfair for both of us if I just pushed through with it in spite of an to applaud for her I wanted to pull her into ht for once, but all I did was nodone shoulder "Sounds like a plan"

"Aiden…" she said ratefulness

I raised a brow at her "Yeah?"