When have you never been here?

I was notorious in our circle: a frail socialite with an unhinged reputation, my delicate constitution supposedly sustained by the mysterious power of blood.

I despised the fiancé my father had chosen for me, Julian Vance.

So, to spite him, I kept nine male companions at home.

Each time Julian, the richest man in the city, whose very being was a living remedy, questioned me, his eyes blazing with fury, I’d merely scoff at him.

But then, those nine men poisoned the blood I drank, and absconded with all my assets.