#Chapter 58 - Bloodlust

[Lucian’s POV] Dmitrius looked as though he were contemplating his next words rather carefully. Amongst the agonizing silence, I placed the decanter back on the ground beside me and turned back to glance at him. “A popular misconception that many others have regarding our kind, is that we only care about blood. As you well know, we are not single-minded creatures. We are as complex as any Lycan or wolf. We just tend to be more reserved about it.” I forced myself to feel the brush of guilt that I knew I deserved to feel at that moment. There were many times when I looked down upon vampires and their way of living as though I were somehow better. If anyone knew the truth about my blood lineage, they would undoubtedly advocate to dethrone me and label me as a freak. And Violet? I felt like Violet would run away the second she found out. I couldn’t even blame her. If she knew what I had done in order to merely get the poison out of her system, she’d never look at me the sa