"It should have been obvious. I have a much stronger mind than that i***t," Deric said, looking far too smug for my liking. I suppose I shouldn't even be surprised that he remembered what happened; after all, he was the only one who had regained his memory before. I still don't know how he did it, but I was thankful nonetheless that I had someone to talk to.
"I think he turned back time or something. We might be the only ones who remembered what happened."
"He's real?"
"Of course he's real. And he's a lot more powerful than I expected. Turns out he's been monitoring me for as long as I can remember. The whole human enslavement thing doesn't have anything to do with the Vampire Coven; it's all that bastard's fault. He did it to lure me to the Forbidden Tree."
"But what does he want with
