A Luna from a beta family and just found out from a godly realm, could not carry a child to term. I had failed at doing something every woman is created for, dreams of. I remember how Clayton and Chase would try to comfort me but who even knows how to?
They too had lost an heir, the child they would raise to take on the alpha position. My little baby did not even get to kick for the first time, but now I know better. I am not the first or the last to go through such a loss, I am lucky to have such understanding mates who don’t see me any different post the loss. I am lucky to have a family that cares, a wonderful support structure even though we are all going through our own battles, I know that I am loved.
“Yes, I am already mated so kill any ideas of bedding me. My wolf only recognizes two males and we respect them very much. If I will be giving anyone children, it is them.” I say proudly but Cayden just smiles.
“You say that now. The urges will soon consume you but tell me now, about you and your involvement with my nephew, Thomas.” Cayden says, lying on the bed and taking the one girls wrist, biting into her flesh.
“Finish your story first and if I am to tell you mine, we will do it where I am most comfortable. This is not it.” I say looking around the room. Cayden licks the blood from her wrist and whispers something in the girl’s ear which has them both leaving the room.
“You know, I fell in love once. With a human girl who I refused to turn in to a vampire. She was too pure and innocent for such a life even though she continuously asked for that one bite. She eventually aged and died, human and left me. She could never carry my children as it would drain her and I could not allow it, but here I am, broken and alone. I don’t age and I am never sick but she was a human so you can imagine the diseases and illnesses that follow humans through the years but the heartbreak came when my father thought he could feed on her because she was old and I had forsaken my family for a dying woman. He killed her and I killed him right after, because after all, I am the rightful king. I have never loved again since then, many women have tried to win my heart and affection but she died with my cold heart and there is no woman that will ever revive what I know to be dead. I am a cursed man because my mother helped a woman who was in danger, putting the coven in danger. Imagine that!” Cayden says and chuckles.
“Who was this woman?” I ask.
“All I know is that my witch mother had the power to travel through time, which was useful to the coven until it was not. She travelled to the future where she met a young woman who was with child and needed to hide from whatever, my mother being a good woman offered her help. I was told this woman was not human, far from it but my mother was able to suppress her power and help her blend in. Apparently this woman’s mother was able to do the same before her to be with the love of her life and now she needed the same thing to hide away in the hopes of saving her unborn child who was royalty. My mother helped her out and when she returned back to her coven, the damage had been done and the leader found out she had interacted with someone from the future, threatening their work and having the coven gain an enemy in the future that would wipe out the entire coven and every bloodline tied to it, except for me since I was cursed already. Now the coven is dead and so is my mother. I just want to meet the heavenly woman who caused my mother her life and brought upon the curse on me.” Cayden says and I shift around uncomfortably.
A heavenly woman who ran away from danger and had to suppress her power to blend in to hide her unborn child who was royalty. Mother came to earth to hide Sabrina and her constant disappearances between Blue Moon and back to the human realm never made sense to me. Was she the woman that Cayden was talking about? Were we connected far deeper than just being king and queen?
Could this possibly be fate bringing us together for my family to fix the chaos they brought on this man who was robbed of any normalcy because Ethia had it for my family? If Cayden was really talking about my mother then now I completely understand the war that is threatening our kind. Cayden will soon find out who I am and who Sabrina is and our mother. The woman he has a score to settle with.
The war looming over us was not Thomas and his revenge, it was Cayden. He was the one to look out for because his vengeance was the same but he was the king.
“What was your mother’s name?” I ask.
“Shadow. That was her name, why do you ask?” Cayden asks me and I rub the back of my neck nervously.
“No reason. She sounds powerful and her name best describes her.” I say honestly.
Such a woman, that risked her own life to save my mother’s and now I stand in this room talking to her son who happens to be the king and I am his queen.
Was it smart of me to infiltrate from the top? Now here I was, right in the vipers den playing house.
“Are you ready to tell me your story now?” Cayden asks and my heart jumps. What was I going to tell this man? He has a vendetta against my mother which means he will kill everyone standing in his way and if he is the first ever vampire, one that can walk in the day then it would be foolish of me to underestimate him.
“You told me you were the second vampire, making your father the first…” I say trying to stall the moment where I lie my life away and hope he buys it wholesale.
“Yes, that’s the story I am going with. My father was the first vampire king, starting the family lineage and having his brother rule as king beside him. When his brother died, his son took over making Thomas the next in line for the throne but those prospects were burned to crisp.” He says to me.
“Oh, so you are basically lying to your subjects about the true vampire history?” I ask and Cayden lets out a sigh.
“Nobody wants to be called a curse, trust me, I would know. Now, what about you?” Cayden says, taking us back to that one question I want so badly to avoid.
“I was born in a pack as a beta’s child. My father will always put himself in danger to save the alpha so that explains me being here as a vampire. I have two mates who I love more than anything and a family I care for. My mother died a few years after having me. My father told us that she was a weaker wolf so her body suffered after carrying me and eventually it gave out so if you want a buddy to drink with and host a pity party with, I am your girl. We both killed our mothers and it has bothered me for some time but my father moved on from losing her and I had to do the same.” I say, Cayden smiling at me.
“Josey Trent, I am no fool. I know exactly who you are so unless you can be completely honest and transparent with me, get out of my room. You have two hours to go think it through before I have to use maximum force. You are a rich girl so I can’t pay you to speak, You are a hybrid so I can’t entice you with blood to get you talking so violence is the only way. Trust me, I am not your normal vampire.” He says to me, annoyance all over his face.
I walk out of his room, making my way down the stairs and out of the castle to meet up with Anthony. It was almost time to meet up with him and I needed him to get a message to mother and Sabrina. If they wanted to make things right then Mother needs to come here and prevent a vampire army killing innocent wolves who had nothing to do with Cayden growing up without a mother.
“Wow! Still alive I see…” Anthony says jumping in front of me.
“Yeah, you are looking at the new queen of vampires but that’s not what is important right now. The vampire king can walk in broad daylight and he is the first ever vampire, making him that much more dangerous. He also has a very interesting story, please ask mother if she knows a woman called Shadow and if she does, then the war we are all trying so hard to prevent can be prevented if she comes here and puts an end to the vampire king’s hatred. He did some digging on me and I don’t know how much he knows but you tell mother if the name means anything to her then she and Sabrina better hurry here. Now go!” I say gently pushing him and he gets the message, disappearing off.
I decide to walk back inside the castle to confront Cayden. If he wants violence then I will give it to him and he better be able to handle it.