Chapter 190

BEGINNING VOL. 3: TO LOVE A VAMPIRE

Leila

Walking with our children—Jase, the equivalent of a twelve-year-old, and Sirena, the equivalent of a four-year-old—I can’t help but notice how much they’ve grown. Dhampir children grow at an accelerated rate and will reach their full maturity at ten years of age. As I watched them, a part of me already missed their baby stages, but I want what all parents want… for my children to be happy, to grow up strong, to feel loved and protected.

And now, as a vampire, I can give them all those things.

In fact, it will take vampires to keep up with them. As dhampirs, they are half human and half vampire. As such, they have superhuman strength and need blood, but they don’t crave it like vampires. Our friend Amy is a dhampir… super strong and intelligent, but the sunlight doesn’t affect her the way it traditionally affects vampires, burning them to death. Nor does it affect my children.

After Lance and I first got together, I developed a sunlight ser