If the Elders were surprised by her admission, they guarded their reactions closely. While they knew she had made the decision but to hear it with their own words was a different matter.
“What brings this on?” Aedan Yates asked curiously. “Only two years past you claimed you were not ready.”
“I cannot tell you anything more than my heart is telling me it is time. My brother fears I am trying to quell a physical need. However, with each rising sun and each setting moon, I feel in my very soul it is time for me to know my husband.”
“But you are at odds,” Aedan Yates noticed the same emotion his beloved daughter-in-law Willow had felt in her child. “You are confused. I can sense it as much as if it were my own confusion.”
“It is a human man who has me at odds, Grandfather.
