The revelation that Lucas and Cassian were vampires should have been the thing to send me running, screaming into the night. But after everything I had seen, everything I had remembered, the only thing I felt was a strange sort of acceptance, and a whole lot of confusion.
“So let me get this straight,” I said, pacing in front of them, waving my hands for emphasis. “You’re both vampires. You don’t age, you don’t die, and you’ve been looking for me in every lifetime because I’m apparently stuck in some reincarnation loop that conveniently ends in my premature death. And to top it off, you two were once best friends who now can’t stand each other but still decided to show up in my life together?”
Lucas and Cassian exchanged a look, one of those silent conversations I was beginning to recogn
