“Together, we shall remind ourselves of what love feels like.” {}{}{} ‘This day has been exhausting, isn’t it, my love?” “Indeed.” her soft laughter echoed afterwards. “Then...would you like to take a break with me, my princess?” The sun had long sunk beneath the horizon, leaving the world cloaked in a shroud of twilight. The silver moon cast a luminous glow over the vampire kingdom of Mariana— a realm where darkness thrived in elegant splendor. In the heart of this currently haywire mess of a kingdom,, a grand plan was taking shape. King Vesper of Mariana, a vampire whose presence alone could silence a room, paced back and forth by the woods, waiting for a certain someone who requested to stay by the lake this lovely evening. His eyes, the color of bright rubies, were set with an u