Chapter 187

Xandar looked at the ground in guilt for a moment before meeting his mate’s black orbs as he said, “Because they hid it, Lucy. The Claws hid it. They shared a good relationship with Reagan’s parents, so they ordered historians to write Rosalie off completely. The first Claw King…used his authority to compel them to do it. With his authority, he compelled the rest of the kingdom to never speak about Rosalie ever again.”

“Portraits and any written work documenting her life story was burnt. The only reason a part of her has been successfully incorporated into a school idiom was because linguists were clever enough to work their way around the King’s authority and subtly…inserted her and Reagan into something that lived on, transcending lifetimes and generations.”

“But if everything about her is gone, how is it that this portrait exists?”

“This wasn’t kept by our kind.” Xandar’s eyes were serious when he said, “This portrait is a duplicate copy gifted by the vampires t