LUCIEN'S POV

"Look around you," I said to Daisy. "Really look. What do you see?"

The moment those words left my mouth, something terrible happened.

Daisy's eyes suddenly went completely white. Not red anymore. Pure white, like looking into the sun. And then her entire body burst into flames.

But these weren't normal flames. They were white-hot fire that made the air itself scream. The heat was so intense that I could feel my vampire skin starting to burn even though I was twenty feet away from her.

The ancient ones who had been standing in a circle around the altar started screaming and running. Their ancient skin, which was...