It wasn't fair to Arthur, she knew, but she might have started to avoid him. Just a little bit.
Truthfully Anna loved being around the man, enjoyed going to bed with him, and nothing felt better than waking up in his arms, but… lying to him?
It felt like every second Anna didn't tell him what she'd learned was another second in which she was going to burst.
So she just started trying not to be around him quite so much. Which, considering how Arthur often brought work home, wasn't terribly difficult.
But, more or less, Anna just felt really really guilty.
As a half vampire her hearing was much better than normal human, so it wasn't too strange that as she padded the halls she overheard a maid talking to Arthur, murmuring,
"She looks so upset. She just sits at the windows and stare
