Paul and I glanced at each other.

"He was a sadistic bastard," Monica said.

Mara had tears in her eyes now, too. "He was unnecessarily cruel."

"You mean that Vampires can take human donors and mistreat them and nobody's accountable for it?" I was shocked.

"No," Karen said. "If a Vampire mistreats a human, then that human is supposed to be able to report back to the territorial leader ... which was Johan. Since he was a Council member, we really had no ...