Lucian's POV

Getting her to go back to bed was one of the biggest tasks I had to face. It was not easy, especially not with the cute sheepish face that collected anything she demanded from my hand.

I looked at the bottle of whiskey lying harmlessly on the counter as the maid drunkenly led her to her room to sleep, leaving me back in my pool of thoughts all alone. This was more than I could handle and her naivety was not helping the subject matter at all.

I had almost sworn that I would keep the prophecy as my mate to myself, almost till i entered the resting...