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¬ HILN 

"I have been what?" I asked him, haunted. 

My fingers instinctively flew to my lips and throat. 

"Please, it's not something you have to worry a—" 

"Of course, I will worry! I have been ingesting her blood thinking it was just some transformation potion all this while and you tell me not to worry?" 

"Because it simply won't affect you."

I wanted to kick and scream about, but I reigned myself in. 

"Why? Why do you believe it won't affect me? It was thanks to that that I became a vampire. You've seen through my memories yourself after all. You saw what it… what it…" 

Wait… 

My injuries. 

No lower-ranking vampire healed that fast. 

"Did that strand have some sort of influence over that?" I breathed out.