ATIA TURNED HER HEAF THE REST OF THE WAY TO FACE THEM, her back to Vivian. "I spent years tracking all of Killian's coven over the years. Eventually, one of them led me here. As soon as I found Vivian, I saw an opportunity. For someone to go to these lengths to make her suffer, she had to be necessary. "Her eyes flickered to the blood-sucking creature then back to them. "I was right. Vivian said that if I brought her blood, she would tell me everything she knew. I made several trips. She told me a new piece of information for each bag of blood I brought. Her caretakers barely feed her, you see. They keep her hovering on the brink of starvation. Vampires cannot die from lack of food, but eventually, they fall into a comatose state. They feed her enough, so she's close to falling into a coma without actually doing so. It's very torturous for a vampire to suffer through that sort of hunger."