She looked sideways at the end of the corridor, her eyes widening with both fear and alertness. She had been given a message to meet the vampires who were supposed to take her to her destination, the human village, safe. At the palace grounds, she would leave through the left side entrance. She had been warned to be careful not to draw the vampires her way or attract their sight.
She knew by now Isabel must have eaten the meal she had poisoned with the bottle the female vampire had handed to her before leaving afterward. She had failed to tell her who she was or what she was, or why she wanted the human girl dead. The moment she had given her the poison, she had sped away.
The cook remembered contemplating over again, dropping the contents of the bottle into the plate of soup she had jus
