ELIAS' POV What were you thinking, Michail? No matter how hard I tried to get a grasp on the situation, I just couldn’t figure it out. In the first place, I had so little to go on. The hunter might have ties to my brother. There was a high chance his death had been more than just the usual hunter-vampire feud, I thought it was. Eliza’s little proclamation earlier had suggested the hunter had been involved with my brother romantically, but if I recalled properly from the investigations, she’d barely been an adult when she’d claimed my brother’s head, so how could that be? Did my brother have an interest in children? I didn’t recall him having such proclivities. All his past lovers, save for Eliza, his widow, had been fully mature and voluptuous females. Eliza only differed in the sense

