THEODORE I slammed the book shut, sliding it across the desk with the others. None of them were giving me the answers I needed. Well, I guess the answers that I wanted. What I wanted was a do-able answer for me. An answer that would let me keep Aurora with me forever, but I haven't been getting a whole lot of ways for that to happen. I looked into any history of a human being turned to a vampire, but there were only two records of that happening. And both happened by the human receiving the blood of a High Lord. From the High Lord himself. Which seemed easy enough, but I don't know any Lord that would be anywhere near willing to do that. And in order for me to become a Lord and take my father's place, I would need to find a wife. A wife that I would have to marry in front of the e

