On the run, Joseph and Julia became the lowest of the low in the vampire world.After their lies were exposed, they were shunned by every clan.The kill-on-sight order from the Valerius family, combined with the bitter hatred of the common vampires they had deceived, meant no one dared to offer them shelter.They lost not only their warm castle and their high status but also the basic means of survival.The once-proud Count was now a pathetic wreck, forced to scurry through the shadows like a sewer rat. Someone even saw him in a slum, fighting over a cheap bag of blood plasma.A month later, on a bitterly cold night.With nowhere left to run, Joseph knelt outside the magnificent iron gates of the Valerius castle."Elizabeth! I know you're in there!" he cried, his voice a raw, desperate howl. He clung to the cold iron bars, gaunt and haggard. "I was wrong! I truly was! Please, call off the High Council's warrant! Don't you remember the nights we watched the moon together? The portrait I
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