Thais Pov
“Well, doesn’t this look lively?” I jumped, turning around and grinned, pulling away from Jareth and wrapping my arms around Aislyn. There was just something about the woman that felt so calm and reassuring. Not like a mother, not to me anyway, but like the older sister, I always wished I had. Yes, of course, I had many older sisters, but none of them cared for me. They all detested me as much as my stepmother did, but Aislyn simply smiled and hugged me close, accepting me despite the fact that I was different. But after all, we were all a little different, in the end. I was starting to realize just how accepting of the different species everyone was. The assassins were made up of werewolves, shifters, now a vampire, they accepted me as a Dhampir…and it wasn’t any different in t
