Prince Erick POV

I looked outside, with a glass of mead in my hands. Many things had changed in a few days, in one week I discovered and learned more about the Gods than in all my years of life.

My father was not back yet, but our discussion over video chat was intense. I had already become responsible for Hope, and now my life was linked to hers. My father didn't care that she was Marcus' Destined or that she was called by Lestat, all my father saw was a girl who was defying the Gods.

The King, my father, is someone completely devoted to the Gods, which is...