#Chapter 218: Steven

I walked with the rest of the people who had been forced outside toward the center of town. People were screaming, struggling against groups of vampires that were draining them. Then, I saw Steven on the ground as a man stomped on him.

“Don’t hurt him!” I flinched at the sound of Bella’s voice. Then, I saw her. What was she doing here? Wasn’t she banished? Then, I realized that was probably where Steven and Lilian had gone: to retrieve her from wherever she’d been.

She looked better than the last time I saw her. She was tied up too, but further away.

“Don’t you touch my daughter,” Steven hissed.

I clenched my jaw and felt my eyes pricking with tears. He would never say that about me. It was always Bella. The vampire kicked him in the face. Blood splattered. Bella wailed.

“Daddy!”

“I’m only going to ask one more time,” the guy standing over Steven hissed. “Where is the relic?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Steven cried out as the man shot him in the leg. He writhed around o