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ADRIA’S POV
I couldn’t have heard my mother right, and I had to stare into blank space to try to process everything, and thankfully, she didn’t say a word. She gave me time to think. My heart pounded in my chest as I couldn’t bring myself to believe what she had said.
Even though I knew I had fought with Lucien the other day and something in me had wanted to bite his neck and taste his blood, I couldn’t bring myself to believe I was a vampire of all creatures.
A vampire? A vampire? No, that couldn’t be. All my life, I had seen blood, come into contact with blood, even tasted it. When I was younger, anytime a friend got a cut on their finger, I always put it into my mouth to stop the blood from pooling out, and it had never tasted sweet nor had I ever longed for it.
“The vampire sid
