Come To Me My Lovelies (Empress Katja Queen of The Vampires)

Previously

…The night was still young, and the shadows held secrets far older and more insidious than she had ever imagined. Silas Vane was gone, his ambition extinguished. But the darkness he had stirred was a far more formidable adversary, a darkness that whispered of forgotten histories and ancient betrayals, a darkness that threatened to consume everything she held dear. The price of victory was paid in the lives of her loyal followers, a price that would forever haunt the crimson-stained marble of her reign. The weight of it settled upon her, a burden heavier than any crown, a reminder that even an Empress of Midnight could bleed, and that true immortality was a constant, exhausting fight.