EDGE I spent the entire drive back trying to work out what could be going on that meant Ambrose would somehow be the mastermind behind this, and came up blank. I witnessed Ambrose growing up. Once he hit his teens, he was a scumbag, like his father, but he never had enough power or drive to be of concern to anyone. To be honest, no one ever expected he’d actually be able to take over as Alpha when his dad retired. The fact he somehow did… that was a mystery in itself. By the time we did get back, I just wanted Blade. The sudden jolt of another couple hundred vampires to my coven was exhausting on a power front, especially when I didn’t expect it. In the long term, it would be a power boost. In the short term, I’d need to feed more often to recoup, just until they all settled and I wasn

