In the dark, moody mansion of the Tepes main family, two women knelt before the towering figure of their father.
This time, even her mother couldn't stop Vlad's rampage after he slammed a test newspaper in Selene's face, the image of her kissing Nikolai's cheek with a title. "Our Pureblooded Princess isn't so Chaste!" the thick paper cutting her face with its sharp edges.
"Explain to me why you were seen kissing a man in public, not only that, a man who also kissed the daughter of Fenrir!"
Selene didn't speak.
The cut on her cheek from the paper slowly healed as she glared at her father.
She refused to apologise for her actions, her defiance a show of her strength. Selene believed in her own choices and was indifferent to her father's anger. Instead of celebrating Anya's transformation into a true vampire, her father focused on this trivial matter.
"Answer your father, girl!" Her mother urged.
