I did not owe the vampire council a rundown on my love life.

Dead, she would be no use to Tyr or the vampire council.

He said the vampire council was going to be restructured.

"I charge you with trying to overthrow the vampire council."

"I do not want this," he waved at the vampires, "coming to the attention of the vampire council."

There was a time when she ruled more of Europe secretly than anyone knew, even among the vampire council itself.

"You both dreamed of the head of the vampire council?"

"Are you a flunky of the vampire council, is that it?"

The vampire council has chosen me to be their representative to the media.

If the vampire council wanted her dead, there was nowhere on the planet she could hide.