He needed her!

After the night Draven kissed Rhea in the healing pool, she no longer came across Draven again, even when she went to soak in the pool every single day, and sometimes at night. Actually, she was a bit disappointed whenever she went there and even looked underwater to check for him, but in the end, he wasn't there.

The night he had kissed her, she had been angry with him and at herself for easliy going immobile from his mere touch and allowing him to kiss her, when they were nothing but friends.

Draven liked her no more than a friend and an ally, Rhea was aware, but beyond that, he felt nothing for her. She, on the other hand, was already in serious danger of falling in love with him. But he didn't want her love. He'd told her that in the plainest possible terms, he had said he would never love, and she wasn't allowed to let herself fall for him.