Celeste stared at the door that Maximus had just walked out of. She couldn’t believe he had come back. She bit into her bottom lip as she tried to figure out how that was happening. Why did he come back? It didn’t make any sense. He shouldn’t have been able to find the garden, but he found it and he could easily teleport inside. It didn’t make any sense.
Or…could it be…
No. Celeste shook her head. Her mother wouldn’t do that. She wouldn’t call the vampire to her sacred garden. She barely tolerated Vicker while he was just a baby inside her stomach. Her mother hated the thought that she was having some vampire’s baby – even though the vampire was a born vampire. To her, that was the worst thing she could have done, as if falling in love with a human wasn’t enough.
No. Her mother wouldn
