NOAH'S POV

"I'm talking about the night you tried to kill me," he said, his voice filled with cold anger.

"I never tried to kill you," I said, confused. "The vampires killed you. They killed our whole family."

Lucas laughed, but it was a bitter, terrible sound.

"Is that the story you've been telling yourself all these years?" he asked. "That it was vampires who destroyed our family?"

"It was vampires. I was there. I saw them."

"You saw what you wanted to see," Lucas said. "What was easier to believe than the truth."

"What truth?"

Lucas stopped walking when he was about ten feet away from me. Close enough...