VALERIA

She started walking again toward the Vampire King. I knew it—he was deceiving them by drinking my mother’s blood, the one that had been meant for me. She was confused, guided only by the instinct of the bond she had left behind to strengthen me.

"I have your blood too, Gabrielle! How can you not recognize your own daughter?!" I shouted, furious.

All the guardians were now turning toward me—suddenly, I was the intruder. The Vampire King was disguising himself as one of them, as a Selenia