Victoria's POV
The world snapped into focus, and I immediately wished it hadn’t.
I was dropped roughly onto cold marble, the jolt forcing air from my lungs. My knees stung as they hit the ground, but that was the least of my problems.
The first thing I saw—
A long, endless banquet table. The kind you’d see in old castles or in the dreams of mad kings. Rows and rows of ornate chairs, carved from bone-white wood, stretched on forever under flickering chandeliers of dim gold flame. The light was sickly, casting a yellow haze over everything like the last breath of something dying.
But what chilled my blood wasn’t the vampires.It was what surrounded them.
Humans.
Completely naked.
They were placed between the chairs, like centerpieces. Some knelt with their necks exposed, faces blank,
