Serina POV "You will go with men to scout the southern border. Your mother had another vision. You are the key to getting close to that ba**ard, Victor," Donovan says. My mother and I were captured by rogue vampires led by Donovan when I was only fifteen. It feels like a lifetime ago now. The biggest mistake my mother made was telling him of her gift after they killed my father. She thought it would keep me safe if she was useful to the pr*ck, but she couldn't have been more wrong. Maybe had my mother been alone, but that ba**ard uses me to keep her in line. She has never told me what he does to her behind closed doors, but I've imagined the worst. I've been beaten on so many occasions I've lost count. The only saving grace is he doesn't allow his men to take advantage of me. I have a f