Lady Cordelia beamed at Rohan when she came to stand before him. Without the courage to hug him, she bowed her head and then said, "I wanted to come to you all this while, but you know how Papa is. He didn't want me exposing myself to a place like the asylum. How have you been?"
Belle stood to the side, watching their interaction, where her husband looked bored and totally uninterested in the excited female vampire before him. Lady Cordelia was a very beautiful woman, Belle noticed, with black hair that was tied up in a bun with delicate flowery pins that matched her earrings and necklace. She wore a black gown that made her pale, unblemished skin even more paler and glowy, and her lips were as red as her dark red eyes, which made her lineage as a pure-blooded vampire evident when she turned briefly to Belle, who stood at the side with her left hand gripping her right elbow in a self-conscious way.
