“There was enough human blood given to him intravenously to counter that,” Dante explained. “It wouldn't have been Toby drinking the blood, either. It's all done in our hospital down below in a controlled way.”
“Toby told me about this blood thing the very first day I met him. I never put two and two together until it was too late. At the beginning, Nicolas did have Toby drink his blood, because he was nearly dead when he'd found him in a back alley. I guess he didn't realize that Toby would never get over that initial high from vampire blood.”
“Possibly it worked in their favor,” Dante added sagely. Some years ago, to save him from alcohol and drug addiction, Erik had made Dante his scion.
Zachariah quietly looked over his notes. Rubbing his chin he said, “Let's look at Toby's possible
