Viktor and Kamilla exchange looks.
What did you do to her? You threatened her, didn’t you?” Vikler accused Kamilla, his eyes filled with the amusement his mouth wasn’t showing.
Kamilla opened her mouth to declare her innocence, but quickly remembered the blow she’d dealt Sasha the previous week and closed her mouth. “Nothing… much,” she muttered instead
Viktor narrowed her eyes at her and turned to Sasha. “Who sent you?”
Sasha lowered her hand from where she’d been massaging her neck and looked at them. “Rena. The Enchantress.”
“The witch?” said Viktor. “Why?”
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“Is it about Rogan?” asked Kamilla. She quickly turned to Viktor “Did Damon tell you?”
Viktor nodded. “Yeah. And… the recording told me too. But I say bullshit. We’re not working with a witch.”
Kamilla made a face at him. “Bullshit is your unnecessary stubbornness!”
Viktor gave her a look so sharp, Kamilla shut her mouth right away and turned back to face Sasha.
“Uhm…” said Sasha awkwardly. “Rena wanted me to tell you-”
“Why are you in contact with a witch?” Viktor interrupted, looking at Sasha with a frown. “Stay away from that kind before you end up in one of their cauldrons for a potion. Don’t you know how many different spells they can make with a Trueblood Vampire?”
Kamilla closed her eyes tiredly. “Rena’s nice, okay, so please the let the girl speak.”
Her eyes were still closed so she didn’t see Viktor glare at her.
“Cheaters and Witches have been known to be friends in history,” he muttered.
Kamilla’s eyes flew wide open. “What?!” she demanded. Kamilla bit her bottom lip in rage. “Viktor King, I swear, if you
don’t stop-”
“What message did the witch send you with?” Viktor interrupted.
Kamilla released a breath so heavy, she sounded like a train. God, he was practically somersaulting on her last goddamn
nerve!
Rena looked nervously at the two of them, quietly thinking that maybe Kamilla and Viktor were suited to each other’s weirdness. “Well, it’s about Kamilla’s mother.”
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Kamilla froze. She looked at Sasha with a frown. “What? What about my mother?”
“She said,” began Sasha. “That she managed to speak to a royal enchantress from Cassius… the Queen’s aunt, and the enchantress says for you to call your mother, Kamilla.”
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Kamilla poked out her batin lip in thought. “Call my mom? Why?”
“Rena wasn’t sure, but the chrhantress said you should ask her why she had to go into hiding when your father was still alive.”
“Kamilla grew quiet, taken aback by the sudden depth of matters
Viktor tilted his head. “Did she say why it matters? How it could possibly help anything?”
Sasha shook her head. “No. Just that Kamilla should find out why her mom had to run away.”
“My father was killed,” said Kamilla quietly. “My mom said he knew he would be. He told her that she and I were in danger because we were his weakness. But mum never knew who he hid us from.” She glanced at Viktor. “When I… when I found out that I was half–Vamp… and that I had to suddenly leave mum and come here to a Vampire Kingdom, I thought that was the reason my mom had kept me hidden. To protect me. But then she told me about my father and how he’d hidden us from danger, so I knew I couldn’t be the reason.”
“Did you ask her what the danger was?” Sasha asked.
Kamilla slowly shook her head. “No.”
Damon appeared behind Sasha. “I might know the answer to that,” he said.
Kamilla leaned over and looked at him. “Really?”
Viktor looked at Sasha. “Thanks, Sasha. You may leave.”
Sasha glanced at them before nodding and walking off down the hallway and out of Kamilla’s wing.
Damon walked over and stood beside Viktor. He looked at Kamilla. “If I remember correctly, your father, the Vampire Elder, Klayton, was killed twenty years ago rather unexpectedly. The Elders didn’t know who did it, but the King knew… and Rogan was the only Elder who knew.”
Kamilla’s eyes narrowed. “Rogan knew?”
Viktor bit his lip in thought and nodded. “He had to have. The late King knew because Klayton was his closest friend. And Rogan knew because…”
“Because he was the killer,” completed Damon, nodding at Viktor.
Kamilla’s mouth fell open. “No…” she said, with a shake of her head. “No way.”
Damon nodded. “Yes way. The late Vampire King, Darrius, was old and powerful… but still old. I’m talking close to a thousand years. With Klayton at his side, he was okay, but with his Queen dead and without Klayton, he was prey for a young, hateful Vampire like Rogan.”
“So Rogan took out Klayton,” murmured Kamilla. “My father. And the Queen… Viktor’s mother?”
Damon nodded. “Yes. He finally managed to kill the King a year and a half ago. That’s when Viktor was forced to return to Onyx.”
Kamilla frowned. “Why didn’t Rogan just take over the throne while Viktor was gone?”
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Viktor shook his head. “Rogan wants to kill me too. That’s why he made the Elders insist I return.” He shrugged. “Too had
I won’t die.”
Kamilla released a breath, suddenly realizing that she’d been alone with Rogan too many times. He could have put her in her grave!
She looked at Viktor and Damon. “So… that’s it, right? My father knew Rogan could try and attack him through mum and
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Damon nodded. “Yes, and that’s why he hid you.“–
Viktor frowned. “But there could be another reason. How can you be sure that Rogan’s the reason Klayton hid them?”
Damon looked at him and pursed his lips. “Rogan wanted to kill them. I can be sure because… it’s the exact same reason why Darrius hid you, Viktor.”
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