Cyrus’ POV- Six months have passed by, Abadrax and I have just celebrated our seventeenth birthdays. In four months, Seraphina will be seventeen and a month afterwards, Ember will turn seventeen. Then it is just one year until we can mate and mark one another. We have been counting the days down. Things have only intensified between Ember and me, and it has been hard not to take things further. Somehow we have managed to wait. For the past six months, Abadrax, Ember and I have been training a lot with Seraphina and Jareth. I have to admit that my little sister is a deadly warrior. I feel sorry for anyone who had to spar against her at school. She literally floors them every single time, within a few seconds of starting. She makes it look easy too. Abadrax is just as great. I had to tra

