"Quil is Aquileen De Macran," Theora muttered, the truth slowly sinking in. "She let her family and her fiance think she was dead to protect my mom... and me. And because of her death, House De Macran turned on the vampire royals."
"King Warrian had just been crowned when your mother disappeared," her father frowned. "They must have deemed he had nothing to do with it."
"Hence why they want his son on the throne rather than Queen Kathedra's," Theora hissed. "Andromea and her fiance used their resentment to turn them against the vampires among the royals. And whether Captain D'Allendor is in or not, his duty is to King Lucius, who had nothing to do with my mom and Aquileen's disappearance."
"And Queen Maria was the one to orchestrate Kathedra's engagement to him," her father reminded her
