Chapter 350

“Disbelief…. that’s what that is. It’s not one thing. It’s many… Like, are we really ending a war that’s plagued us our entire lives? Are we going to be parents in the midst of all this? Is this all going from a never-ending threat to nothing in the blink of an eye? And what about you? Your father is royalty among … God, our enemy, Lorey. You’re a freaking vampire Princess, and that blows my mind. I’m not trying to close you out. I’m just… overwhelmed.” Which I guess is exactly how he has me feeling. Overloaded, anxious, and weighed down with a thousand emotions all at once. Sometimes sharing that is too much, and it’s hard for me to swallow even though I know he’s trying so hard to shield me from the worst of it. “Leyanne thinks that me being alive will pull Varro back from attacking our people, so I guess, yes, the threat is going to end. We just haven’t had any word from Jasper or Darrius to confirm it, but the mountain had fewer vampires than we both knew were there before. So, w