So much for Elizabeth's hopes of marrying her off. It's a shock to me too, but let's be calm about it. The vampire went on sawing at the strings just as Kristian had shown him—like a clockwork doll set in motion. She knew the blood meant so much to Karl because he understood how great the sacrifice was.
As I said, it's just a word. I never cared about the others, you know, Kristian said tenderly. I think I know how we can leave here without anyone seeing us. The house was shrouded in rain and she felt eerily isolated within it, as if it were an island with nothing outside but an eternity of grey shimmering veils of water.
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