NOAH'S POV

"To offer you a choice," Elena replied. "Join us willingly, and we'll protect your pack. Refuse, and..."

She didn't finish the threat, but I understood.

"You're vampires," I realized.

"Among other things," Viktor said with a cold smile.

That's when Daisy appeared beside me, having heard the conversation from inside the house.

"It's them," she whispered in shock. "The people from my dreams."

"Dreams?" Elena asked with interest. "Or visions of things to come?"

"Those were just nightmares," Daisy insisted.

"Were they?" Marcus spoke for the first time, his voice carrying an otherworldly echo. "Then explain how we're standing here having this conversation."

"The sleeping poison," I said...