Kaida
Time seemed to pass slowly in Caelum’s keep. We slept at night with the rest of the living staff members. Our lives overlapped with the vampires only in the evening hours and the rare early morning. I had the feeling that the other vampires in the keep were under orders to keep their distance.
The full moon was in eight days.
I had been counting the nights since we arrived at Ashenveil and I knew exactly how many I had left before the wedding. A wedding ceremony I was not going to attend if I could find any way out of it.
I had not yet found any way out of it.
Meeting with Caelum in his study had become a nightly ritual of its own. He settled into the chair across from me with four centuries worth of patience. And I made myself comfortable on the settee, not because I had any in
