Several days had passed since Caleb and I made the difficult decision to push the chosen woman from the other world into her destined fate. We could no longer afford to wait and simply allow Olivia to dictate how things would unfold. We had already given them more than enough time.
Claret belongs here. She belongs to my brother. She is the goddess we have been waiting for—the one foretold in the prophecy. As Dastan had said, the vampire realm is her true home.
I stood by my window, gazing outside as the delicate snowflakes drifted down from the sky. The book in my hands had been long forgotten as I extended my palm, allowing the cold to seep into my skin. This snow belongs to my brother, mirroring his every emotion. I knew I wasn’t the only one who had longed to see the soft descent of w
