His Proclamation

Colette was speechless at first, since she couldn’t make the connection of how a vampire drinking the blood of a human would even warrant such a transformation. She knew that if Ingrid bit Rohit and consumed his blood, he would either become a vampire himself, or be subject to the young woman’s will. Because of this, she decided to clutch the vampire heiress by her shirt again and confront her on it. “Are you insane?” she upbraided. “That’s not how it works! The closest anyone of our kind can get to being a human was to be born of one—like I was born with half of a human’s blood running inside me. But consuming it doesn’t do anything!” She then shoved her back, to which Ingrid simply flattened the wrinkles out of the shirt, since it belonged to Rohit.

“I know,” Ingrid casually replied. “Which is why it’s not just any blood partnership. It’s an ancient ritual with a lot of conditions.”