Lily:

My eyes welled up with tears as Adrian told me that we couldn't enter our name for the claiming because we were thirty minutes late and the list had been closed.

"No, that can't be possible, I need to speak to them, we can't wait for another claiming, I don't want to wait for another claiming," I struggle to get out of Adrian's grip to run to the council office but he held me tight pulling me into his embrace.

"There is always another claiming?"

"You don't understand, I have to go through this claiming, I needed to have your mark on my neck," he cupped my face.

"Sh......