This time Liam again didn't let me see Lucy's face. But I wasn't angry at this point. A few minutes ago, when I tried to take Lucy back by grabbing her arm when the two vampires were fighting, she shrugged me off and declared that she won't go back with me.

When Daleri had stated the same thing as a message from my sister, I hadn't felt that depressed. I had a slight hope that she would just let me see her after I became a queen. But I never thought that she would willingly reject me before I could even ask her to leave with me.

I knew she...