Dominic “Your highness, I insist that you at least think about marrying my daughter,” Lord Valance argued with me. It was another long pointless meeting with the Council. The news of my father’s illness had become public, and now the push for me to marry a vampire has become the forefront. They became more insistent when Daisy disappeared. They didn’t know that I knew where she was. Malcolm and I tried to get into the Pine Hollow territory to see her, but Colton had become Alpha and made it harder for us to sneak in. His guards would bar Malcolm and me each time. Malcolm wasn’t king yet, so he didn’t have to authority to force them. So I was biding my time until Daisy woke up from her coma. I hated every day that I was unable to see her beautiful face. King Cassius refused to use fo