The cold blue light of the candles flickered against the damp marble walls of the chamber. Jennifer stood near the edge of the grand silk bed, her chest rising and falling in slow, heavy breaths.Before her stood Elder Malakar. His pale, withered face looked like carved bone, covered in centuries of deep wrinkles, and his milky-white eyes locked onto her with a terrifying, ancient hunger.Jennifer took a small step back, her fingers instinctively touching her bare collarbone where her true mate mark had once burned. "Why should I trust anything you say? You are a vampire elder. You serve Lucien.""I serve the throne, my child
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