"I am solely at fault, not my family!" Count Liz continued to plead guilty. I am guilty alone! Your Grace, please let my family go; they are innocent!"
"Hmm?" Micah hummed questioningly and narrowed his eyes, his emerald pupils glinting coldly. "Let your family go?" His tone sounded nonchalant yet decisive. "Why did you not let Vera go then? She is just a child, yet you jointly wrote a letter to abolish her along with the others and agreed to leave her in the lower district to fend for herself. Are you planning to let any passing low-level vampire suck her blood dry? Do you not have a conscience?"
Count Liz's muscles were taut, his veins bulging in his neck due to his nerves. He did not understand what was so wrong about it. The queen of their vampire race should be a vampire, not a human, so was it so wrong of him to want to get rid of a human? Humans should be their prey, and vampires should be the predators.
