THIRTY FOUR

ELOISE (A WEEK LATER)

The whole scenario played out just as Fergus had wanted. I gave all the visiting emissaries my condition if I was going to align. They each collected my blood sample and two days later, I got the reply I was already expecting. The Aster pack found something interesting in their labs. I was the great-granddaughter of some minor noble blooded elder that lost all her family to war. Fergus had planned this so well that the supposed girl whose existence I was supposed to take was created two months after the Carnation family tragedy. In simpler words, my grandfather was a calculated man and he wasn't taking any risks with me. I had been visited again by the Aster pack and I swore my allegiance. The woman who I was supposedly related to, took me to her house, two towns away from Ashlake to prepare me. It was no intention of mine to leave but Dad and grandfather were insistent on consistency and method acting. It wasn't all bad though. I had learned from Orla Aster, my