Chapter 53

"I... I don't know what to say.... Is that why Andreas... Disliked you?"

Anna chuckled, "Don't butter it up, he hated me. He hated me so much. Heartbreak killed his mom, selfishness corrupted his dad and the only other man who showed him love? The venom of a vampire took him. For a long time, he thought I was still angry about being banished by my brother, I decided to punish his son."

"I see he likes you now."

"Yes. Only when he was bitten by a vampire did he finally realize that for you, the child prophesied about, to be the one to heal him, more so with the stone, there really was no other cure. Seeing how you basically died after that, he accepted it. That's the only reason he let me watch over you. Takes him to die to realize something? You have a real boulder on your hands." Anna joked.

Eleanor was still reeling from it.

"I feel very bad for him, though." Anna suddenly said.

"Why?"

"All those years of hate... At the end, he found that all the