I had resigned from the FBI simply because there was no more reason for me to stay there. Christopher was gone and now it was no longer a mystery as to who the masked vampire was. I no longer had any reason or excuse to stay there a little longer. Though I have mostly good memories of this place and would miss that place, for the time being, I can't return there. I suddenly felt like a useless nobody who had no one in this world to rely on any longer.
I felt alone all of a sudden. Just a few months back, I had a trusted mate and an entire clan, holding my back and now, nothing. Nothing at all.
Tom and the vampires had already started rebuilding his mansion, which Christopher had torn down furiously, and it was as if nothing had been in their way at all, in the first place. They continued
