Evan My father is one of the vampire kings, and when he raised me, he told me a vampire's greatest weakness is to trust another person. Friendships are for fools. Love is forbidden. And we only choose our mate based on the power it will give us. That is a vampire's life, according to my father. I had a messed up childhood... "Kill, or be killed, Evan. That is the rule if you wish to survive in this ugly world," my father said when he snapped a woman's neck with his bare hands. I was only nine years old, and he smiled at me and added this sentence. "As a vampire, you can't let yourself feel, or those emotions will consume you and destroy your sense of logic. You're a murderer—all vampires are, and it's time you started feeding off humans." My father then nodded at me to drink from t