I was out for many hours, talking to Asten, that I lost track of time. I got back to the room about three a.m. and had only four hours to sleep to be able to join everyone on the city tour. I was going to bail on it anyway, there was no way I was going sightseeing with my entire future at stake. Pun intended. Vampires, wooden stakes… got it? Asten left me on my doorstep and kissed my forehead to bid me farewell. He explained he had to go back to the clan headquarters because duty was calling. Thanks to him I was able to find out who Ophelia really was as a person, and it turned out she was just the same as she had always been with me. Stubborn, but open minded, strong, but aware of her age and her limits. She lied to me, in order to protect me. I felt a sudden guilt as Asten bragged about his mum on our night walk, she was just doing what she thought it was right. I couldn’t sleep that night, as I had plenty of sleep during the day, so I read a copy of It I bought in Italian

Kyla had many reasons to run out the door: She’d have to endure a ritual that would hurt the shit out of her for seven whole days, there was an ancient (although very handsome) fella telling her she was the love of his life, her entire life was shit because she was abandoned and now, she had a shit ton of people who came out of thin air calling her family and the last, but not least… There were vampires in the world and she was one of them, who was never meant to be born. Mayhem was numbing her thoughts as she was staring at the beach from her bedroom windows. She didn’t know what to think anymore. Her entire life was planned out and she had no saying in it other than going to college. She’d live practically forever and she hadn’t planned on living that long. She hadn’t planned living as a creature she only read about in books, who were incredibly wrong about their species, by the way. The only thing she could do at that moment was to open the balcony door and put her feet o