Forever Young The Beginning by Gerald Simpkins

Author:Gerald Simpkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, historical romance, vampire romance, vampire action, paranormal adventure, paranormal action, vampire paranormal, vampire adventure, romantic historical fiction, romantic paranormal action, romantic vampire action adventure, vampire historical romance

Chapter 61

Ian ran all night until at dawn he realized he was nearing the Mediterranean coast. The vegetation had changed drastically and finally he crossed the road to the sea and saw the Rhone River. He stopped to drink the last flask and soon he was off, knowing that he would be at the chateau in around an hour.

Arriving at the chateau he decided to go to the river to bathe. And while there he caught some fish. Familiar things had a comforting effect, as did the sight of the chateau as he came through the pasture and approached it from the back.

He walked to the kitchen door with twelve fillets ready to bake, left them on the counter for the staff and came into the dining room. Marie was just coming down the stairs and ran to him when she saw him, sensing something wrong. He hugged her and wouldn’t let her go.

“What is it, Ian?”

“Ah, Marie; I’ve really done it now.” He related all that had happened at the barn in Lausanne.

“Ian, she is human after all. There’s always a chance that they just can’t accept us when the cold facts are laid out. You might have been able to avoid this if you had sat down with her at some time, but she might still have had the same reaction. So she’ll heed your warning about keeping the subject quiet?”

“Yes. She can’t take the chance of exposing what she saw because she’d taken up with me for nearly four years. That and her son’s doubtful future should his mother become the object of ridicule will keep her quiet. She thinks that I’m some sort of deviant and knows nothing of vampirism.”

“Do you think that she’ll want to dissolve our bank partnership?”

“No. She’s a banker’s wife who has become a banker now herself. She thinks I’m the only one and that I lied to Cosette and everyone else.”

“So you took the brunt of this whole thing?”

“Yes. I thought it best to let her think that. Just in case she did talk, it would only be about me.”

“Oh, Ian! No wonder you’re so crestfallen.”

“There’s more to tell.”

“Let’s walk outside.”

They walked with arms linked, and Ian told her about using his blood to save the life of the maid’s little brother, Andre. Marie gasped and stopped walking when he told her. She faced him and said “I hardly know what to say. You say it cured him of Wasting Disease?”

“Yes. He is the picture of health. He hasn’t gotten as much as a sore throat since then.”

“Then do you think that our blood is a universal cure for disease?”

“That’s my conclusion. I looked at it under that microscope that Henri gave me. I could see my blood doing something to his. I just don’t know enough about anything like that to know what I was seeing, but it looked like his blood benefited from mine. I doubt we have to worry about him crossing over. What chance has he of being bitten?”

“You must have been burdened with this, Ian.

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