Ella got dead drunk after a breakup and had an unexpected encounter with vampire Fred. She left in a hurry once sober, only to find herself pregnant later and gave birth to her daughter Paige.
After her parents died in a car crash, Ella and Paige relied solely on each other. As a single mother, she strove hard to raise her daughter. Yet Paige began suffering from severe migraines, so Ella turned to her doctor friend Tina for help.
Tina told Ella that Paige would incur hefty examination fees. Short on cash, Ella chanced upon a part-time piano player gig at Darcy Manor. She failed to recognize the manor’s owner, Fred Rafael, as the man she’d had a fleeting tryst with four years prior. Though Fred seethed with anger, he still hired her for the job. Ella took Fred for a generous manor lord and finished her work shift oblivious to the truth.
Back home, Ella found Paige had bitten their nanny Susan, who furiously called Paige a little lunatic. Ella dismissed the nanny, then spotted fangs growing from Paige’s mouth. Meanwhile, having sensed the restless aura unique to a half-vampire child, Fred knocked on the door of Ella’s apartment……
