Chapter 206. Epilogue

“I half expected you’d not give me back my dagger,” King Xandros joked as soon as he stepped out of the forest, exactly the way he had done two days before.

Only Wayne and Olive were standing there to meet him. The others had mostly returned to the Balendin Pack earlier.

“I just finished one war with a vampire; I’m not quite ready to start another,” Alpha Knight joked in the same light tone.

The vampire king laughed. It was so soft and innocent that a stranger could fall for it—if they didn’t see his fangs, that is.

“Wise of you. Very wise. Well, thank you for bringing it back.”

He lifted his hand, and the dagger lying on the soil rose to meet it. King Xandros looked it over, examining every crystal on it and the way the moon’s glow bounced off the sharp blade.

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