Chapter 49: Reckless Plan

Viviane finally managed to calm herself after speaking with Seamus.

She kept whispering under her breath, reminding herself that this was better, that she had done the right thing. There was nothing left to lose.

As Seamus had said, their relationship had only lasted two months, a fleeting and meaningless span of time.

She had believed those weeks held true happiness, but clearly, he thought otherwise.

That was fine. She no longer needed to carry the pain of that realization, because she would die today.

Viviane opened the ruined chamber once more, meeting the disdainful stares of her so-called allies.

“Where is that asshole? Drag him here. I’ll kill him this time,” Eve snapped, her cracked face still unnervingly fractured like cracked porcelain doll.

“Do you think you should fix that face first?” Viviane retorted coldly. “Besides, we need to leave. The preparations are complete.”

“Looking at our group, battered by mere humans ... is it truly wise to challenge Isolde?” Stella finally spoke, her wounds now healed.

Vampires could not die unless their Vitalis Core was destroyed, and Seamus had clearly failed to land such a blow.

Viviane’s smirk sharpened. “What is this? Are you frightened now, Stella?”

“You once were always looking down on me with those condescending eyes, now you are scared of humans?”

Her words were enough to ignite both women’s anger.

Their alliance had always been fragile, doomed from the beginning. The House of Hesse once claimed dominion over this small city before Isolde arrived even when they were just branch family of the Great Seven Covenant.

But because she refused to share power with another house, she had driven them out in disgrace.

Cast from their main covenant, they were forced to rot in the slums, reduced to squatting in sewers where rats thrived.