Selt frowned slightly. "As far as I know, seven years ago, it was your family who killed her parents."
Carlya snorted coldly. "Her mother violated one of our clan's taboos. We killed them according to the clan's rules and orders. What was wrong with that?"
"You also think Selene was wrong to be with a human man?" Selt clearly disagreed.
Carlya said matter-of-factly, "That is the ancestral rule of our clan."
The warmth in Selt's eyes gradually faded. "Then what about you and me?"
"We... We..." Carlya was at a loss for words.
Selt released her.
"According to your clan's rules, clan members who get together with humans deserve to be killed. Then shouldn't you, for being with a vampire like me, deserve death even more?"
"Selt, we're different. You know that. We're different."
Carlya anxiously grabbed his arm, but her words were extremely feeble and utterly unconvincing.
Selt glanced at her. "In my eyes, they're exactly the same."
"When Kaitles's parents were hunted by the clan and judged and punished by the Elder Council, I tried to persuade my father."
"But he stubbornly clung to the commandments passed down through the generations, eventually triggering the greatest war in history."
"In that war, whether they were second-, third-, or fourth-generation vampires, almost all of them were wiped out by Kaitles.
I only managed to escape by risking most of my life while he was seriously injured."
Carlya clearly sensed his distance and grew even more anxious. "You don't want to help me?"
Selt looked at her. "I don't want the war from back then to happen again."
In her previous life, Selt and Carlya's relationship had never been exposed.
That lasted until Kaitles suddenly returned and launched another attack on the vampires and the wolf clan.
Selt allied himself with