My uncle still lives to this day, though in hiding. A mere shell of the being he once was. With his mate destroyed death would’ve been merciful. But his brother, my father refused to put his own brother to death.
Instead he has been kept alive these past three hundred thousand years with very special care that keeps him from going berserk again. He’s been quite well for some time now since the whole ordeal, but his guilt at what he’d done all those many years ago would not allow him to face the world.
He cannot accept that it was not his fault, that the sickness controlled his mind and caused him to feed too deeply of her until she’d been drained.
As a pure nymph, unlike one of us, she wasn’t able to withstand it and had expired. Thankfully no other vampyre had suffered the misfortune of being mated with one such as she again over all millennia. Until this bullshit!
Lucien
That brings me back to her, to us. I have no intentions of spending the rest of my existence locked away in a room in some crumbling down castle somewhere, living out my days staring at four walls because I’d lost my damn mind. She will accept me and that’s all there is to it.
I watched her now as she looked around the forest as if seeking me out. I wanted to come out of hiding and yell at her for being out in the open bare ass as she was. What if I had been someone else?
Granted the place was surrounded on three sides by high walls and a ten foot gate, except for the back, which was acres upon acres of private forest that no doubt belonged to her family.
How had I not known that she was here, that her kind was this close to my city? Granted I’ve only been here a short while, having moved here from my homeland in their earthly realm for a change of pace.
Or was it because of her? Had it been she who drew me here? Could be. I remember thinking how odd my choice had been when I settled in the nondescript city not far from here. How nothing about it had seemed even remotely appealing at the time.
I could’ve chosen any one of the cities of Europe. It had been some time since I’d been this far north. Not for more than a thousand years at least. That was before this land was called by the name it now holds. I’d had no taste for the things that transpired at the birth of this nation.
Things that had been dealt with, fires that had already been put out in the isles of Europe and the ancient cities, were alive and well here back then. Nothing gets my blood boiling more than the fuck ups of the human race, they who have everything handed to them on a silver platter but yet let greed and ignorance destroy them.
And this place had been the worst since the human race came into existence. Worst even than some of the now ancient civilizations of its kind that’d had much less to work with. So I’d bypassed the relatively new little island on my many travels.
Now it makes perfect sense, my reason for coming all this way away from home to settle among strangers. I also know the answer to my mother’s sudden appearance out of the blue. She could’ve at least warned me.
I ignored the elders who I could still feel in the background, closed my ears to their whispers as they discussed my vital signs amongst each other, nosy fucks. If they were this worried why the hell didn’t they stop this shit? Way to put your future leader’s life in jeopardy.
From their murmurings and mumblings I got the idea that they thought I was barely hanging on by a thread something that wouldn’t have been had they given me some warning. It’s not like I could change shit if I found out that my mate was the one being that could end me, but at least I would’ve been prepared.
“It’s a little bit late for you lot to be worried don’t you think? Now stop that damn buzzing in my ears and let me think.”
“Maybe we should have your mother and father join you there just in case.”
Oh now you nervous? I didn’t answer him. He and I both know that my nosy ass family will be descending upon me any day now. My parents will never see me as anything more than their little boy, especially my mother, it’s embarrassing.
I tracked Natalia now as she headed towards the small stream that was hidden between the trees and dove in. Her every move was sexual, which did not make it easy on my control.