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she a prisoner?”
    “Almost four months… two years here.”
    “Why wouldn’t she have told me this?” I cried, clenching my fists at my sides. “You’re lying to convince me to go!”
    “I’m telling you the truth, since you’ve chosen to stay. I see the lack of respect you hold for your parents, and I was hoping the truth would change that.”
    “You don’t know me! You don’t know what my life is like! ”
    “No, but I remember what your mother’s life was like… in my castle.”
    I crossed my arms over my chest, smirking arrogantly. “So now you need a queen, is that it?” I held my arms out at my sides, gesturing to my body. Silently thanking the powers that be for early development, I allowed him full view of my swelling chest from above my tank top. “Have to come all the way to another world to find yourself a wife?”
    He rose from the chair slowly, his towering height intimidating as he narrowed his eyes. “You think much of yourself, young Eva. However, I’ve come to think very little of you after this evening.”
    Riled beyond control, I took a step toward him. “You don’t know me, ” I repeated, my eyes blazing. “You don’t know what I can do to you.”
    “Spoiled child.” He shook his head disgustedly.
    “I am not a child!”
    “If I didn’t have so much respect for your parents, I’d drag you to my world and teach you how to behave.”
    “So, you’re a lot like your father, then?”
    I expected him to put his hands on me. I begged for the opportunity to toss him to the ground.
    Instead, the cold fury in his eyes backed me to the sliding glass door, and the heat emanating from his hands steamed the window as he slapped his flat palm against the glass, next to my face.
    I flinched, and then cursed myself.
    “ I am nothing like my father. ”
    My chest rose and fell as I struggled to even my breathing. “I’m sorry,” I whispered, guilt heating my cheeks. “I’m sorry, Will, but I’m not afraid of you.”
    His eyes seemed to steal all of my energy, and I shivered again, uncomfortable with his stare.
    Finally, he took a calming breath, backing away. “Your grandfather was right. You are something else entirely.”
    “My grandfather?” I followed him as he walked back toward the library door. “Wait… what did he say?”
    He turned to me, his hand on the door. “He referred to you as a ‘challenge.’”
    I smiled fondly a t the memory of the dreams of my dad’s father, with his long, white beard and crooked smile.
    “Well, I’m sorry for all the animosity. I really do hope that everything works out in your world.”
    Will regarded me with a sideways glance. “Keep your brother safe.”
    He slid the door open, and I stiffened at his words. Keep my brother safe?
    “Wait,” I watched him loosen the buttons on his shirt collar. “What are you talking about?”
    “There are insurgents who do not agree with my compassion.”
    “Insurgents… they’d come after my brother?”
    His shirt hung unbuttoned from his shoulders, revealing a light sprinkling of dark hair over an inconceivably muscled chest. I lowered my eyes to the hardwood floor, kicking at the braided rug. Holy hot.
    “Only you and your brother will stop the sun from burning our world.”
    “They want to abduct Christopher?”
    “No, Eva.” He took a step closer, and I lifted my eyes to his. “They want to kill him.”
    “Why?” I nearly crumbled, wanting to reach into his brain and yank his words out faster. “What in the hell are you talking about?”
    “Your deaths will stop the sun and return our lands to normal. Keeping you in our world is only… a way to avoid your deaths.”
    “What about Chris, though? If he’s not there, what about the second sun?”
    “It will burn until his death.”
    “Will,” I felt my eyes water, blinking back burning tears. “Your people want him dead?”
    “Some do.”
    “No…,” I lifted my eyes to his, and finally recognized a hint of sympathy in