Chapter Ninety

CHAPTER NINETY

“What does that mean?” I demand.

“It means something has changed,” Aliya says, her voice heavy. “I’m trying to figure out what. But it’s not easy.”

She looks around, “We should go back. The forest isn’t safe anymore.”

I’m too exhausted to ask her what she means.

The return to the Panther territory is a long one and I spend most of it, resting in Lucas’s arms. Aliya is convinced I managed to get ancient vampire blood in my system. I still don’t know how. I don’t know what a vampire looks like. All my knowledge comes from the stories I heard.

And all the stories say that that they burn in the sun and are blood suckers.

I know that they exist but it’s not strange that I don’t know much about them since they prefer human settlements.

So how could vampire blood get into my system?

Maybe Aliya is mistaken.

I stop debating over that subject with myself.