“She left his general alive—though forever tainted—and sent him back to the House of Blood with the prince’s head.” Septimus’s eyes slipped back to the fire. “I have only heard my mother cry once,” he murmured. “Only once.” Understanding dawned on me. “He was your brother,” I said. “One of them. My parents were unusually fertile for a vampire couple. I had seven siblings. Six brothers. One sister.” Had.
