chapter 76

ARIELLA. "If that's true, then you mean that you and David have drunk the Moon Goddess' tears when you were younger?" I asked Darius. "Because you said that you were teens when you became vampires. I don't even know that you were once humans." "Well, our family's story is one crazy tale," Darius told me. "We used to be humans, yes. We were royal blood back in the early days of Europe. My father used to be the prince of a vast empire. His father was the emperor, but when he died, naturally some people didn't want my father to ascend to the throne for their own selfish reasons. His enemies sent assassins just to kill my father and our whole family. We were still children at that time. We moved from place to place, hiding from the public. But of course, Father didn't want the empire to fall into the wrong hands, so he did the unthinkable. Someone offered him to become a vampire and he accepted. In those days, vampires were feared. Father saw it as the only way so we wouldn't hide anymor