Kalilah POV

With Damon training here, I decided I wanted to keep training as well. It wasn’t as if I had ever stopped. Once I had started training in Seattle, showing my new skills that I had adopted because of my blindness, people started to take notice.

Auren took notice, but he wasn’t spending as much time at the estate as Lucien. He was staying here for the most part with some of his people, and when he saw me training one day, he approached. It was obvious he was here. I could smell him.

Vampires had an odd smell. They didn’t smell of death or life. Mostly this faint...