He's been rejected, but he's going to go ahead anyway.
After crash landing on Earth in his ship with his crew, Xan meets a girl he feels a mating need for. He's recently lost his love to an arranged mating, so this makes him angry. He plans to take her anyway so he can have an heir since he's a prince.
Edie doesn't plan to go along with his plan. His feelings change, but can he convince her she's the one?
“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.“