ELENA'S POV
Seraphine talked for forty minutes without stopping.
We were in the back of the vehicle, all of us crammed in together, Isabella still pressed against Lucian's side, Viviana beside Ryker with their shoulders touching in the way they touched now without either of them acknowledging it, Kyle with his notepad already open before Seraphine said her first word.
The Bloodstone was old.
Older than the vampire council. Older than most supernatural classifications that currently existed. It had been created during Cain's original reign by the same practitioners who had helped the first Nightshade sovereign develop the binding. A contingency. A failsafe built into the system for the scenario where the heir became corrupted or compromised and the power needed to be contained without d
