Bound To The Vampire Lord
Though it was not my fault in the way they had believed it was.
'You are wonder, lily,' he used to say to me, because she was to him. But also, because I was pale. White as melting slabs of iceover a river in spring. Where other members of the Blood Moon pack had skin the yellow of melted butter, my skin was like ice, my hair pale, too, like a curtain of white silk cascading down my scalp onto my shoulders and further below, to the indent of my waist.
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