Cassian had been so focused on escaping that room to reach Maya that he hadn't noticed he didn't have the marriage mark on his hand. They had performed the ceremony, their blood had mingled, sealing their marriage, and the mark should have appeared on his hand. Yet, there was nothing. He recalled that he hadn't seen the marriage mark on Maya's hand either. Thousands of questions swirled in his mind, but the one that lingered most was what the fairy queen had told him: the marriage mark is for humans, not for fairies.
Cassian began pacing around the room, wondering if that had something to do with the absence of the marriage mark on their hands and with Maya's suffering after the ceremony.
"Damn it! What the hell is going on?"
Maya was taken to a room filled with flowers. The guards plac
