CAROLINE
I crouched in the brambles, looking at the castle in front of me.
I'd been there before - Malcolm had sent me and Doneval, a member of the Elite loyal to him, to flush out and exterminate a nest of vampires, and we had happened to get there during Multon's stay, while he was campaigning to become king. We'd managed to exterminate everyone but him - I still bore the scars of our encounter. Malcolm hadn't liked it in the slightest.
"Nice f*****g place," Ethan observed, crouching down beside me and rubbing my back. "Feeling a little better?"
I nodded. It had been three days since I'd left, and I'd spent the previous one writhing in bed in the throes of one of the most excruciating pains I'd ever experienced - heat. Ethan was so distraught by it that he'd called Levia to that re
