But Charlotte kept her face expressionless, thinking, Whatever I say, it will be the wrong thing and I refuse to cause an argument. But as Charlotte descended the stairs, to her dismay, Clive came out into the hallway and stood looking insolently up at her. There was a strange scent in the air that made it worse… and I turned and saw that Andreas had brought a human into the room. Her limbs felt weightless.
There was a gulf between us forever. Ilona… Where are you? He stretched his senses wide, searching for the black-diamond coolness of another vampire, which was so easy to miss. A fathomless darkness beside which even the terrors of the Weisskalt paled… from which only Charlotte's sweet blood had saved him. I didn't doubt it at the time.
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