Jack had one more rumor to share.
"There was also a maid named Megan Doyle. Apparently, she was desperate to climb the social ladder, so she pushed out the woman who had been Elliot Ashford's personal maid and took her place. On her very first night, he dragged her upstairs and drank so much blood that she nearly died. After that, he tormented her almost every day. She couldn't take it and started an affair with a male servant. Elliot caught them together, and Victor Ashford was furious enough to throw her out of Ashford Manor."
My fingers tightened slightly.
Megan had been thrown out, but I felt neither satisfaction nor sympathy.
She thought she had fought her way into a dream job. In reality, she had chosen a life where one feeding could kill her.
The café owner noticed my silence a
