Tristan
I’ve never been to a human funeral before. The one true myth about vampires is that we turn to ash after being beheaded or speared through the heart. The ashes disappear in the wind, leaving nothing but memories. We memorialize our fallen brethren by preserving a keepsake that once belonged to them. I kept my parents crown and my mother’s wedding ring.
I clench my jaw, trying to restrain the emotions that bubble up inside my mind. This is not the time to be angry.
Carrick clings to Rowan, his expression distraught as Haley’s coffin is lowered to its final resting place.
Since we couldn’t tell Haley’s human family that she was killed by mutant angels, we had to devise a viable reason for her death. Carrick agreed to tell her family that she had died in a car crash. Her parents
