Easier? Try harder. Again her will, Mina thought of Tom. Until the end of her days, she would never be able to fully cope with the way that story had ended. Honestly, she would have been happier to know that he was dead and gone, killed the night the Centurions took him. It was easier than the thought of him really being...who he was.

Mina shrugged. "I was lucky. My brother died when I was two. I don't really remember him. Never knew who the bloody hell my father was. Just me and my mother most of my life. Fewer people to leave behind, I guess. I never really had much in the way of family until my Embrace. My sire, she's an incredible person. I respect her more than anyone. Even Atiyeh."

She glanced up at Jones. "Perhaps you would have liked her. A good person. For a vampire."