Ares takes a deep breath, clutching his phone so tightly that his knuckles have gone white. I wait with bated breath for him to say something, and finally he says, “We will arrange a meeting with the Vampire King tomorrow. It’s a meeting past overdue, and I need you to be ready.”* * *“Do I really

“Miss Lavinia,” I start, trying to adopt the most gentle tone possible. “I don’t think we’re understanding each other well here. What Alpha King Nikolai is trying to say is… perhaps you could help us trace the path of the person who went here. We just want to know what that person was doing in the K

I don't say anything. She's standing over me now and I can feel her cold breath on my forehead. Something about the smell of her breath reminds me that of a predator's: stale and metallic. I can catch the hint of blood with every exhale.“Why did you bring me here?” I decide to go straight to the po

“It’s not like that, Ares,” I say, but he just turns away from me. I feel guilty for shooting down his feelings but I have no choice. It just feels too absurd for me. I recognize that I might be in denial, but I don’t think Gianna has enough power to sway the Vampire Kingdom into doing her bidding.

My vice mayor has conducted some meetings with the delegates of important groups in the city while I was gone, and he compiled everything into papers. I read the papers all morning and finally come up with laws that bind the Lycan and Human world together.The new laws are similar to the initial one