⌠wake up gray■ I looked up to see Ayden prodding me with his foot ⌠gray, are you okay I heard yelling?■ I looked up at him and he went down to his knees and looked at my eyes which I knew were now going to be puffy and red my nose was running and I knew it but Ayden put his arms around me in a tight hug and sat there for I have no Idea how long ⌠what happened■ he whispered looking at me ⌠my parents┘im moviiinnntoganlanhusband■ I said crying all the way through it ⌠what?, slower, speak slower■ he said softly ⌠my parents■ I cryed ⌠are sending me to E-E-England to to to Be Mar-r-ried■ I sobbed he looked at me for a minute with his eyebrows furrowed ⌠your parents are sending you to England to have an arranged marriage?■ he said making sure he got it I nodded and began to sob again he looked like he just got hit my a train he looked surprised and shocked, outraged, and sorrow all at the same time he held me ⌠ill be right back■ he said opening my door which fell down asoon as he touched it we side stepped it and I heard his shoes hit the floor boards on the way down the stairs. And I continued to sob

Ayden▓s point of view

⌠What▓s wrong with them doing that to their only daughter how could they what kind of monsters could do that! What who! Could do that to they▓re own daughter■ I yelled in my head I ran down the stairs and ripped the doors open to the family room Graycynn▓s father was sitting on a couch next to her mother petting her hair and hushing her with a sad look in his eyes ⌠don▓t■ graycynn▓s father started ⌠I don▓t understand■ I said dropping into a chair ⌠please explain to me why your daughter is in pieces on her bedroom floor sobbing because she needs to move to England and get married to a goon at 17■ I said shaking my head ⌠it▓s culture■ graycynn▓s father started ⌠I know plenty about your culture, as you can tell by now, my family go me out of that sick game■ I said quietly ⌠yes, you are to do as you wish I understand, Graycynn is not in that same situation■ her father said still comforting his wife ⌠please continue■ I said looking at her father ⌠our side of the royalty scale is less than par, we need our only daughter to get married through tradition, like the rest of our kind■ he said quietly ⌠im aware, stop telling me things I know already, who is this vampire, what family is this goon from■ I asked worried ⌠The Drownish family■ her father said ⌠they are no higher then your family ranks■ I said lowly ⌠yes, but that is the only family willing■ her father said sadly ⌠I have a deal■ I said slowly and quietly ⌠I will marry your daughter, if she is free to go where she wants, she will be turned in to one of us after our wedding■ I said slowly ⌠and what is in this deal for you■ her father asked worried ⌠nothing, besides your beautiful daughters heart■ I said her father looked at her mother who now had dryed her eyes and had looked up, she nodded and so did he ⌠very┘very well■ her father said ⌠I▓m glad my daughter will start off with someone who she knows■ her father said smiling a little ⌠now your name sake?■ her father asked me he obviously hadn▓t heard my name ⌠Reddingford■ I said smiling her father looked taken back ⌠Pardon■ he stammered ⌠it Is Reddingford, my grandfather was king Andrew■ I said looking up