[@Lionhearted]

Thank you!  I'm glad you like it :)

Her heirloom would protect her in terms of the healing from the bites itself.  Effects from vampire bites may be reduced but that's not the main point of the heirloom.  I guess it would work best with werewolf bites.  She won't feel as much pain and these bites will be able to heal quicker than normal.

As for vampy dad, I would say that she picked up on some things before he got bitten which leads her to believe that he had been turned into a vampire even though she didn't see it.  Maybe a piece of correspondence between him and a vamp was left on his desk, and even though Evren doesn't want to believe that anything bad may have happened to her dad...it very well might've.