Chapter 42: Now you understand me.
Maria looked at Sasha and continued:
"I don't know about the other vampire hunters, but for Carlos and me, we just treated it like a job… We had no personal grudge or special reason to hunt vampires."
"Carlos and I grew up in a poor area of New Jersey, Camden… We were both orphans."
"..." Ruby and Natalia looked at Maria with curiosity.
"Two orphans surviving on the street, we could barely survive day to day, and to make matters worse, I was a girl…" She spoke the last part with a bit of hatred:
"What would eventually happen to me was obvious… I could only maintain my purity because Carlos defended me tooth and nail; he was always more developed than the people around, despite being only ten years old, he was stronger and faster than an ordinary human."