"Are you sure you want to do this?"
I gazed into Luicus' eyes, holding his face with my hands, "I have to."
"I hate this."
I chuckled, "I know."
There was a knock on my bedroom door, Astrid and Ezra came with Lily and Liam following closely behind.
Lily was putting no effort in hiding her disapproval, but she wanted to be there for me, she wanted to support this plan.
"Where is Valeria?" I asked, without her the plan was of no use.
Astrid scoffed, "What else do you expect from her?"
"She will be here soon."
Astrid placed an hourglass filled with yellow sand on the table beside my bed, "What is that?" Lily asked.
"In case we fail to wake you up when we see the blood on the dagger, or something else goes wrong, you will wake up automatically when this runs out of sand."
I moved my
