“Thank you,” he said, pausing next to the door. He reached for the door handle. “If only you'd been here a month ago. You could have stopped it.” I nodded.
“It must have been very hard on you and Ali.”
He gave a half-smile. He had some of Drakulya's traits and I wondered about this. “We have been welcomed to stay here in the Drakulya Palace for the time being.”
“Was your mother somehow related to Joha and Jett's mother?”
He looked at me a bit startled. “Why, yes. She was. How did you—”
“I'm a clairvoyant,” I said. “It's really hard to keep a secret from me once I've met you.”
“Really?”
“Yes.” Knowing blossomed. A lot of information came from him, and it took me a while to organize it all. It would seem that they were inter-related, and second cousins married one another—but that was
