DAHLIA GLANCED at the newspaper that the customer sitting next to her table was reading. The front page was spread wide and she could read the words written on the headline—Successful under 40! The Orchid’s Godric Octavius tops the list.
That name again. She heard that name from her former employee, Selene, when she resigned from her job at the café and told her she’s going to work for a new employer. There really is something about the name that sounds very familiar to her. Like she’s already heard it before.
She’s sure she’s never had a victim belonging to his family. Most of the people she would feed off of are like moths flying towards the flame, people who didn’t need much convincing to become a victim, people who easily trusts a beautiful woman like her.
She has been hearing the
