An hour later, one of the royal guards pressed the button on the elevator and straightened his shoulders, hands clasped in front of him, chin raised. They were meeting Eric in the Knights’ room- the very room that Oscar told her that very first day she came here, to stay away from. “Lilith said you were all vampires?” He looked at her, eyebrows twisting so she added, “Your aunts and uncles- cousins. And they drink animal blood?” He grimaced but made no actual answer. No denial was her answer. They’d all dined together…technically they weren’t vampires so they were real humans that drank… [Where’s Yeon?] Yeon would not be accompanying her, she’s been told. He was with Yichen and they had no time to babysit her, Oscar forewarned her, as if she had ever called them before but she knew he

