Leo's POV
I saw Diane freeze, panic etched across her face as she stared at Mara, the chief maid who stood at the door with her whip in hand.
Mara hadn’t expected me to be in the room and by the time she found out I was in there, it was already too late as I had seen her.
In one hand she held her whip, and in the other, a jar which I didn’t need to look inside before I recognized it to be the wolfsbane.
Diane trembled beside me. Only she knew the torment she had endured under Mara since she came into the vampire kingdom.
Many werewolf maids and slaves I knew had taken their lives after suffering Mara’s torture and I had no doubt Diane was next on her list.
Mara's eyes widened when she saw me standing in the room after I had let everyone think I had gone into the forest to be alone, a
