Hope and I had to return to our lives eventually. There was no escaping the duty that called to us. Nyx was dead, her power now part of us both, humming through my veins, intertwining with our own power. Hope and I haven't noticed any changes so far, but we will, eventually. But with her death came new questions, mysteries that needed unraveling, including what Helios would do and what this meant for Louise. She thought she was only a vampire, but it turns out she is much more than that. The difference between her and Caelan was that Helios was Nyx's fated mate, so Louise wasn't unstable like Caelan was. There was still the matter of my mother. Had Nyx killed her? Did she leave me? Us, because I wasn't her only child, he had left Lucian and my sisters as well. If she did leave, why did