"This is what's going to happen, Serene." Zeph stood over me, having bound my hands, sitting me on the bed. Ethan was now leaning against the door frame, gun in hands at his side. He started to relax with it a bit when I was finally tied up as I screamed in their faces that they were lying bastards. "Everyone is ready for us downstairs where we will join hands in matrimony--without any fuss--and when the council comes, you will praise my name, and they'll award me my crown."
"And what makes you think I'd do something like that?!" I asked, still wiggling against my restraints. Once I got out of here, Zeph and Ethan would be begging for their lives. I gritted my teeth, still pulling on my arms that were getting burned by the rope.
"Because we have guests downstairs and if you don't do what
