Page 63 of Lucy Undying (Dracula #1)

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London, October 8, 2024

Iris

I can barely see through my tears. My breath hitches and my throat burns, in sympathy or because of my sobbing or both.

I was wrong about several things: Lucy isn’t my ancestor. She didn’t live long enough for that. And Mina wasn’t uninterested in Lucy’s fate. Quite the opposite.

But as much as I was wrong about, I was right about a lot. And now I’m certain of two things. The first of which is that Lucy was murdered in an elaborate scheme to take her inheritance—the very inheritance my family built their fortune on.

The second of which is that a vampire showed up and nearly ruined the entire plot.

And I have all the proof.