Chapter 34

• There are many aspects of vampire culture that I do not comprehend. I don't understand vampire royalty, their customs, or their traditions—how can standing under a tree at the wrong time forever bind me to a man I've never met? But what I struggle with the most is not knowing who I am in this vampire society that I was forced to join. I was a Princess, but I was also a vampire who saw ghosts, which had different meanings and outcomes.
• Henrietta tried to tell me what she could, but Nico had returned earlier than expected, and we needed to talk about something else. Time passed, and Henrietta was eventually summoned away by an unexpected phone call. Henrietta apologized for having to leave early and followed her entourage out the door.
• It appeared that our lives were no longer our own.