Chapter 48

Genesis

"It's snowing." I held my hand out and caught a few snowflakes. "No lake today?"

Cassius shrugged. His mood was different, darker. "I wanted the comfort cold brings me."

"Normally it's heat."

"I'm the opposite of warmth." His eyes turned white. "Therefore, it's cold that comforts. It's my fire."

I pulled the fur blanket around me. We were sitting outside a cabin in front of a roaring fire. It was beautiful; snow-blanketed the forest, making it seem enchanted.

"More questions…" Cassius sighed. "I sense them."

I stared into the fire. "What was Ethan's daughter?"

"Different question," Cassius snapped.

"Can you mate?"

Cassius let out a slew of curses. "Our punishment or maybe our prize? Women die at our hands. Human women." He shrugged. "Vampire blood and human blood co-exist. Angel blood and human blood are an abomination."

My throat went completely dry. "So it can't mix."

"It can… for a time, and then the