“I dare say, Mother—”
She hissed in warning like a tea kettle at full boil. Oops, I was obviously walking on eggshells here.
“Sorry,” I said. “But let me just say this so we can clear the air. Drakulya is Booth"s enemy because of his taking his daughter at some point …” And keeping her against her will; this was what I was getting from someone.
Hmm, my clairvoyant abilities could not be fooled. I knew this: Drakulya was shrewd, dangerous, and ruled like a tyrant. If he saw a woman he wanted, he would simply claim her. As he had tried to do with me during our first meeting. He had his servant lock me in a room without a view. Fortunately for me, the ley lines running throughout the palace were available and I simply vanished into thin air and went home.
“She was old when he dismissed he
