Lucy’s POV
Three more nights.
Just three more nights, and my sentence would finally come to an end.
For a thousand years, I had lived among humans, exiled from my own kind and forbidden to return home. Every passing century had been another lesson in restraint.
Soon, it would be over.
I would return to the eternal night where I belonged, a place where I no longer had to hide what I was or keep the monster inside me chained every waking moment.
I stood in the silence of my darkened living room, my fingers curling around the strap of the small leather bag at my side.
A blood bag rested inside the refrigerator, waiting for me. It arrived every week through a discreet arrangement with the local blood bank, enough to keep the hunger at bay without drawing unwanted attention.
The blood w
