Sist`?]er S**to??le My Ma])(+te, I Got the Dra[gon King

At their mate-selection ceremony, G,rant rejects \ ]*Mara i
`n front( of both tribes and gives her place to/ her crying you[ ^:ng@!^]er siste]

#r. He sw]` ears (it is o]nl%#y tempo#:`)rary. He has forgotte%^_n %_one]/ thing: Mara )t=*urns : twenty-two i`-`)n three* d*%(a$.ys. Under t* riba[:?`l %?
law, an unmated woma//^n loses he -(r[! right to cho:[o=@se, and)* :[;Ma_ra h=as alre^ady b?een ass^_)i#=g ]:ned to =,the
= d]=yin]`g Dr\^ag; !on ] -Ki)!ng. G)/rant ex,pects) he/_-=r fath/ \er t).#o  stop@; it:. Mara acce!pts ?the decr\ ee. T! hree days !$l:]ater,  as.  G=)rant co^mes to bond with Brenn]a,[ on$e hundred dra,
gon guards arrive at the Ha?= le gates to+ e\.[scort Mara_ away as thei ?r+ future queen.