“Rowen’s right. We don’t have the time to woo her like she wants—like we want. So what do we do?” “Obviously we won’t be forcing her,” Sylan scoffed. “This is her heart—her trust in us—that’s on the line. We cannot abuse that when we’ve given her this promise. Even if she says yes right now, it’d be the ‘yes’ of her body, not the ‘yes’ of her heart, and that’s what we want.”

