Hearing his words, Kila couldn't help but put her head down, glancing at Rose.
Dexter then looked at Rose with a calm face. Rose, too, gazed at him from head to toe; she couldn't help but feel wary of him. Or perhaps it was his flames she was scared of—her bane.
"You're not bad for a new vampire count. Normally, we wouldn't accept anyone younger than 5,000 years. But no one cares anymore; we can do whatever we like in this apocalypse," she said to him, and Dexter only nodded, agreeing with her words.
"Alas, you took in a foul seedling. That girl can resist a sire bond, which means... she can't be controlled," Rose said, and then Dexter looked back at Kila with a raised brow.
"Kneel."
She kneeled once she heard his words, her head still down.
"Stand." She obeyed his words again, making him look at Rose once more.
"She seems pretty fine to me," Dexter said to her, and the count couldn't help but frown.
"What are we even talking about right now? Give me the key fragment—" Before she could complete her words, she looked back to see Winter at a window, holding the key fragment with a calm look on her face.
"Tsk..." She clicked her tongue as she saw Winter, and her blue skin and eyes gradually changed back.
"You knew Kila?" Dexter asked suddenly, catching the count off guard.
"Hm..." She looked at Kila before replying.
"Yes. I was the one who turned her into a vampire. Awww... seems like she hates me now. I did kill her entire family in front of her, though..." Rose casually said while biting on her long claws with a long canine and letting them grow again.
Dexter walked towards Kila and then looked at her face. She couldn't raise her head to face him right now, not after what she did.
Dexter searched her palm and licked the blood. Instantly, he felt the memories of the blood that rested on his tongue.
"She really did?" Dexter doubted it and glanced back at Kila.
He gritted his teeth as he looked at her, and then his anger subsided as he remembered all the things she had done for him.
Without her, surviving as a vampire would have been much harder for him.
"Don't you regret doing that to her?" Dexter looked at the vampire count in front of him with a frown.
While this was going on, the other vampires didn't dare to go close to the leaders fighting. People from Dexter's coven were really rooting for him in this situation.
"Regret? What's that?" Rose asked Dexter as she tilted her head cutely while putting a finger on her lips.
"Kila has helped me a great many times; I can't abandon or dispose of her. She is a part of my family now," Dexter said to the count, and then he looked up at Winter, ignoring the shocked Rose.
"You should worry about getting that key. We don't have up to 24 hours before the blood works will be opened," Dexter said to her, then turned around and grabbed Kila before walking her away from that place.
Rose immediately looked at Winter and jumped towards her with a claw, causing Winter to fall out of the castle, with Rose following.
Dexter stopped as he walked in front of Kila, who stayed silent as she stared at the ground.
"Kila, look at me," Dexter said to her, and she shook her head.
He used his hand to raise her chin and saw that tears were streaming down her face while she bit her lips to suppress the sounds.
"I'm really sorry. I was so angry I wanted to kill her, she killed my mother, my father, my little brother, my friend. I want her dead..." Kila began to spout as the tears came out more, and Dexter only stayed silent.
"I'm sorry I tried to kill you, I was so angry at her. Please forgive me." She begged Dexter and then Dexter couldn't help but shake his head.
"You're so beautiful. You're spoiling that by crying like this." He said to her and then she looked at him in the and saw him smiling warmly at her.
She couldn't help but hug him tightly as she saw his warm smile.