Epilogue

I stared into the darkness of the day. The overcast of the sun barely peeking out on the top of the mountains, I've grown to love Bucharest but being cooped up in a mansion was not my idea of pleasant. Six months of not knowing what happened between the explosion and the day I woke up here. I wasn't a vampire, yet I was immortal.

The door opened to Lucy with a silver tray of food, she placed it on the dresser.

"You should smile more,"Lucy told me."A prince is coming today, I heard the vampire prince is gorgeous."

I turned around, holding my laughter."Oh, Lucy, he's the last of my worries. How about you meet him for me, and keep him away from me."

She grabbed me by the shoulder, her eyes lit up in excitement."Not at all Elizabeth, there's word going through the mansion that he's here to meet you under Henry's request."

"What?"

I pulled away from her grasp, storming out of the room to see Henry. I finally found him in his office looking down at a map, by the look on my face he could tell the talk wouldn't be pleasant.

"You have no right to control my life," I snapped at him. I was beyond livid."How dare you bring in some vampire to meet me like I'm your pet."

He placed the pen down, his tone of voice calm."Elizabeth."

"No."

"He's a man of honor, my intentions are for him to-"

I glared at him."If your intentions are for me to marry him so my hold on said seat becomes stronger, I don't want it. I do not need it."

"This is not about him,"He said sitting down on his chair."This is about the same thing we've discussed millions of times. I cannot tell you more than you should know."

"This is my life!"As soon as the scream came out of my voice, the glass of the windows shattered.

I was dumbfounded, unable to understand what had just happened."This is not fair, I do not know what I was or who I was. I can't forever be held like a prisoner because I know in my heart something out there belongs to me."

I turned toward the door. I grabbed the handle turning it around. It wasn't fair, none of this was fair. When you live in a world not knowing who you were, or why you're even alive.

"In time you will figure it out, it's not my right to tell you. And what you're heart tells you, follow it because I can promise you it's closer than you know it. You are meant to lead Elizabeth, the world is just not ready to know your full potential and neither are you yet."

I looked back at him for a second before leaving his office. As right as he was, I longed to know who I was. Why I was here out of all places in the first places. Nothing made sense anymore, in time I might just find out who I was and find that.

Alone in this world, was. The last survivor of Sparx, the daughter the king despised. A Saltzman with a family who never contacted me after Alaric's or my parent's death, after my grandparent's death everyone went their own way. Riven went his own path, my friends may be God knows where. Maybe I should just be what I should be. I will rule.

I got off the cab, smiling at the beauty of the Bucharest farmers market. The laughter from the children contagious, groups of friends having coffee.

One day the world will change…

Of course, she isn't dead. Dark Prince will be up by Tuesday possibly if not Thursday due to editing. All I can say about the story is it's leading as an anchor to a war between Evil and Evil. A war that will take so much, a war needed to end the biggest bad of them all. In Dark Prince, it will be mostly a story retelling a story very well known with twists. Sometimes the world doesn't need a hero, but someone who can fight, a strength as bright as fire.