ANGELINE stared at herself in front of the mirror where she and her friend Odette appeared in the spacious women's toilet when the two of them arrived in the expansive yard of the Councils' stronghold that was surrounded by twenty feet high walls and giant trees around it must be old as the oldest vampire alive, and like a forest inside the tower.
That's what Angeline thought the first time she visited the vast compound of the headquarters, which astounded her, especially when she could see how deep the basement was. And she could not avoid thinking how extensive the vampire king's stronghold was if the purebloods' fortress was this huge.
"What's on your mind?" Odette's voice interrupted her musing. "You seemed on your thoughts tonight. Are you already casting your witchy ability to control one's heart to fall in love with me?"
