“When I was growing up, your father would entertain me with stories from your childhood, but I didn’t know you were already grown. In my imagination, we were friends. In my teens, I even had a crush on you.” I smile at my younger dreams, with Daire playing the starring role of knight in shining armor. “It was a shock to meet you in person. You were devastatingly handsome but an arrogant jerk and nothing like I’d imagined. Every inch the First Vampire and Prince of the Underworld, you were a stranger instead of the boy from Lucifer’s stories.”
