Now, this is the part that I haven’t told you.

How power transfers from one vampire to another, see not a lot of vampires even know how this is done; convenient for me, to tell you the truth, but the secret lies in those seconds where the heart of another is still beating. One must devour it to acquire the abilities of the host.

But, being the Fortier, I had the privilege to be able to pass on a few, and that is exactly what I did. I simply stared at the heart, as the beatings then stopped. I looked at my mother, and she had this look on her face . . . I could never shake the feeling off.

My own mother was scared of me. Of what I became and what I could do. That look on her face sent a chill down my spine.

I stopped, as more and more Bertrams flooded t...

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