Smallville

Chapter 19: Smallville

I finished washing the plates and he was still silent. So, I guess, I should just tell him anyway.

“I’m almost thirty. I already have everything I wanted before: fame, wealth, power, and freedom, but I’m lonely. I noticed women my age having babies. Having a baby almost cost them their lives, yet they were smiling. I wonder what children could do to your life. And I was not wrong. The fulfillment when I had Zaya was different.”

He looked stunned to speak.

“Why didn’t you find someone like you and have a normal family?”

“I was cursed to never be able to give birth to a witch by my mother. She wanted me to never have a child. So, I tried to have a child with a human and then left him after. That way, I would not be bearing a pure witch, right? But I did not know you were a vampire.”

That was hard to understand but I hope he won't think I’m weird.

“It’s weird, I know,”

“Yeah,” his answer did not make me feel better. I walked to her room to check if she