[Victor]
Talia sat, curled up, with a book on the couch in my office. She was reading something she brought from Queen Bellamy’s personal library. It was the first night she’d had to relax and she insisted that she was going to read the whole thing before going to sleep again.
I was working through the list of vampires that Bellamy had brought me. They had sworn themselves to her collective. I was on the tenth one. He was still laughing from when I told him I was the new master of the territory.
“I’m sorry, Master Nightshade. I’ll swear loyalty to you if you make it through the year. Until then, I’ll stick with a leader who I know will live.” He chuckled.
“What do you mean by that? I’ve lived over eight hundred years. I’m not some child who thinks that he’s invincible because of v
