Two days. It had already been two long days and I had no information about what was going on. They didn’t allow me to talk to her and I couldn’t reach her myself. Alarick kept everything secret and my father wasn’t any better. I was going crazy. I still believed Kendra would agree and probably even help persuade her parents to let her go, no matter which story my father concocted for them. I was waiting for Alarick to come back, I had decided to not let him sleep until he told me everything.
It was another two hours before he finally came home. It was already dark outside and the only light was provided by the lamps installed on the buildings and around the center of the dome.
“Oh, you are still up?” Alarick came straight to me, ignoring my angry expression. He locked his hands around m
