From the village, Sean had informed me that there were a group of ten, both men and women, arriving that night at the castle. As I looked over the side of the balcony, I saw predominately women. It did not surprise me that women were here knowing how attractive Dorian Lark was. Every villager knew what he looked like and it was impossible to think that no woman alive would have denied their attraction. Whether he was a woman’s type or not, there was simply something seductive about him. I remembered what Alina once told me about the villagers being sometimes conniving. Over periods of their history, many villagers had tried to seduce the vampires to their beds in order to become like them. They were killed because of it. Now, those with such an incline were actually invited here. I knew

