Alexander's POV

I sit alone in my office. The door's locked. The world's shut out.

Antonio's information weighs on me like concrete.

"Kailiya's mother had the gift of foresight," he'd said. "She could see threads of fate. Glimpses of what might come. But power always has a cost."

"The curse."

"Yes. The Moon Goddess saw their union—witch and vampire—as wrong. A violation of natural order. So she cursed every daughter ...