*** Hope was seated on the couch with me. We had just returned from a tiring day at school. I attended gym class, and we played soccer this time. I was new to that sport and needed time to adapt. The whole training, I was making bad passes, and the coach told him to learn how to play by the next class, or I would be on the bench. I looked at Hope. She was tired and weak. She began to look leaner too. I was very worried about her. She needed to eat for the baby. The little she ate was what the baby was eating too. She had to learn to eat for two. She had to learn to care for the baby, or she would get a miscarriage. I knew how much that would hurt her soul. She wanted a baby for me. She wanted to start a family with me. I had convinced her it was impossible, but it somehow became possible. I still couldn't understand how I couldn't get all the other girls I had slept with in the past pregnant. Why was it her? What was so special about this Hope that I didn't know about? "You look t
I sat on the couch, deep in thought. Solomon, Zion, Jocelyn, and Philomena were here. Zack was also here now, dressed once more in one of my clothes. He still had the handcuffs and apologized to Hope for almost hurting her. I was satisfied with his actions because it showed that he wasn't against us. We had to know who we were now; we were about to fight a serious battle. Javicia was extremely dangerous and worst of all, she had been trained and brought up by the most powerful in the supernatural world, Suzana. The name only made me clench my teeth because I learned to realize that Suzana was a very cunny woman and had a hand in the creation of all the supernatural creatures today. She was very smart, and I thanked the stars she was not around. "We need to find a way to stop Javicia once and for all," I pointed out. Everybody listened attentively. We were in a very serious situation, and the lives of Hope and our baby were at stake. Javicia wanted the baby, and the only way she cou
It was relieving that Javicia was out of the picture, but I still couldn't sit back and let my guard down. We had burnt her body afterward, courtesy of a magic fire from Jocelyn. I had watched her corpse burn to ashes. I didn't want her back or near my child. It was too much of a risk to take. She was finally out of the picture, and I was grateful. The pain and worries she had caused me when she was alive were excruciating. She had given me nightmares, she had tried to hurt Hope, and she had hurt me plenty of times. She had wanted me for herself. She wanted to make me hers. However, I couldn't blame her because I was the one that flirted with her first. I was surprised at her long-lasting interest in me. It was a huge surprise that I didn't expect. It was just a one-night stand for me, and I thought she thought the same. She had kept her feelings for me for over six hundred years. Sometimes she would think about me in a coffin because that was where she usually hibernated. There wo
*** The sun was finally out of the snowy clouds. The snow had partially stopped and now fell only in bits. The change in the weather meant that the vampires would return to their hiding places which also meant a safe month for Hope. Speaking about Hope, there was a small bulge on her stomach, and the pregnancy began to show. It would take only a few weeks before her mother noticed she was pregnant, and I was thinking of what to do. There were two solutions to these. The first was to tell her mother about us, explaining how she got pregnant and how important and powerful that baby was. The other was to make Hope stay with us until she was due to deliver. I liked the second option better, but I knew it would not take long before Gladys would find out about us. She would have to know one day, but it couldn't be now. It was not safe. It was Thursday, about two days before Hope's birthday. I picked her up from her house, and we went to school. She was now comfortable with holding my ha
It was the eve of Hope's birthday, and I hadn't seen her smile in a long time. The last time I saw Hope smile this wide was when she undressed me. I smiled at that thought and quickly brushed it off my mind. It was because of that moment we were in this situation. She was pregnant with a mystery baby, and her stomach grew. I didn't know how that was possible. It was much bigger than last week, and the difference was clear. It would soon be visible to her mother. I had to find a way to bring her over here. We were running out of time. We came back from school that Friday. I swerved the car into her driveway. Her blue Ford truck was probably in the garage. It was so long since she last rode it. It would probably get rusty soon. I got out of the car and opened the door for her.
"Vampire?" Mrs. Wallace asked again. I clenched my jaws, knowing she wouldn't take it easy. It would take some time before the words sank into her head. She probably didn't know what a vampire was. She turned to Hope and gave her a worried look. "Vampires aren't supposed to be real," she pointed out. "Well, we are," I confessed. "And the town is crawling with them." Mrs. Wallace sighed and took a sit beside Hope on the couch. Hope caressed her blonde hair slowly with her fingers. I knew Mrs. Wallace had a lot of things on her mind, and this secret was another burden to bear. This time, it was for her safety. At least, she was now aware of the dangers the town was threatened with, especially at night. "The town is filled with vampires?" She asked, surprised. I scratched the back of my head and smiled at her. "And werewolves, too," I added. "Werewolves are real too?" She asked, looking up at me with her eyes widened. "Yes," I replied. She sighed and covered her face with cuffe
*** "There is a huge problem in town," Dylan told me. We were seated in the house of delusions. Not on the counter this time, but at a table behind a corner. He had called an emergency meeting with Solomon and me. Samantha was also present. "What is it?" Solomon asked. "Vampires are missing daily," Samantha replied. "A strange illness is eliminating some." "We thought it was the werewolves, but they said they weren't involved in any of these," Dylan added. I scratched my right jaw in thought. What would attack vampires and wipe them out like they were nothing? It was not the vampi
"Noah Richmond," he said, stretching his hand for a shake. I looked at his hand for a moment. I wasn't pleased he was here, though I had been expecting him. Javicia had told me about him. He was very dangerous, more dangerous than her, I supposed. And I felt he was here for the same issue. My baby. I clenched my jaws and took his hand, shaking it. He smiled at me broadly. Why did they act so friendly when they were so brutal? I couldn't blame them because that was how I acted when I was the bad guy. Maybe karma was returning the favor. I felt karma was feeling so much better, returning all the bad favors. I let go of his hand. "So, Desmond," he continued. "I heard my sister had a thing for you." I smil