A Shade of Vampire 4: A Shadow of Light by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2013-07-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28: Sofia

Aiden escorted me to where they were keeping Ingrid. Anxious wasn’t a strong enough word to describe how I felt about seeing Ingrid again. I fumbled with my fingers, wondering why on earth she had such an effect on me.

She’s your mother, Sofia. If what Zinnia was saying is true, then you’re about to see a tortured version of her—the same way Vivienne looks now. The idea made me sick to my stomach. No matter what Ingrid did, no matter how insane she was, to me, she would always be Camilla Claremont.

I gave my father a glance, wondering if he felt the same way. A wave of nostalgia hit me as I remembered what coming home from school was like when we were still a family.

He always came on time. Whenever the school bell rang and I ran down the front steps of the red-brick school that I went to for my elementary education, I could always expect the black BMW waiting for me in the parking lot.

My dad would be leaning against the passenger side door, arms crossed over his chest and a big smile on his face.

“Hello, baby,” he greeted me, before taking my backpack and putting it on the passenger’s seat. “Would you like some ice cream?”

“Yes!”

He would tell me to hush and not tell my mother, but once we reached home, I would tell her anyway and he would make a mess out of my hair for getting him into trouble.

After the afternoon snack, we would drive home together and he would ask me how my day was. He never once made me feel like he wasn’t listening. He always seemed genuinely interested.

More often than not, once we got home, we would find my mother in the kitchen or in her study. I loved her study. There were so many trinkets and artifacts in there. Every one had a fascinating story. The Red Orb was my favorite. My dad said that it was how he had gotten my mother to fall in love with him. I loved that story.

Dinner was never without laughter, and there were always plenty of hugs and kisses to go around. I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would’ve imagined that things would turn out the way that they did.

I’d always felt like Aiden had adored me and I still couldn’t wrap my mind around the idea that Camilla had held any form of resentment toward me. We’d been a picture-perfect family. Perhaps that was why it had been so traumatic for me when they had abandoned me. It didn’t help that growing up, I’d been diagnosed with many psychological disorders—ranging from ADHD to OCD. It wasn’t until I’d reached The Shade that Corrine had figured out I had LLI or Low Latent Inhibition. It heightened my senses. I could hear, see, feel, sense everything going on around me intensely. I wondered if this was the reason I felt deeply for those in pain.

I shuddered when I remembered Derek in the dungeons of The Oasis.

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