Ren’s POV
It’s not Hawkeye’s attitude toward me that shocks me. Sure, most vamps revere me for my blood relation to someone I’d much rather not be related to, but not all of them. Besides, judging from the way he bear-hugged Nick, he’s got Nick’s back. I can understand that, from his perspective, I’m a threat to Nick’s right to the throne.
It’s Nick’s attitude that shocks me.
At least, it has me worried.
I sense it from the moment he and Hawkeye return from their little sidebar—something’s different in his eyes. I sense it from the way he disappears the moment Hawkeye announces that we’re going to be taken to our rooms to get cleaned up before dinner, and I see it from the way he avoids me throughout dinner.
“What’s with you and Prince Vamp?” Robb whispers to me about halfway throu
