Return (The Evolution Trilogy) by Vanessa Wester

Author:Vanessa Wester
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, vampire, love, marriage, death, relationships, children, family, evolution, responsibility, birth
Publisher: Vanessa Wester

Chapter 24

Cleaned up

Steven stared at the door for a few minutes after it closed, his head full of irrational thought. If the cure worked then Caitlin would be safe, no-one would ever need to know about what her blood could do. He would never have to use her, not that he would have taken her blood without her consent. At least, he liked to think so.

The fact Caitlin could drink his blood and heal made him wonder if the same would apply to any human changed. He wondered if Caitlin, and Judith for that matter, could be more like the myth of vampires. They could not reproduce, drank blood, and remained frozen in time with the ability to regenerate.

He felt stupid for thinking it. They had a heartbeat and ate normal food. They were not creatures of the night.

He wished he could talk to Judith, he wished he could find out more about her life. He tried to remember more about their last conversation. It was hours before she died. Judith had talked about Charleston, about talkies, about love. He could not help smiling as he remembered her animated eyes. He shook his head, his lips drooping down again. The situation was hopeless. She had told him nothing.

The fact remained – Caitlin hated him.

He lowered his head into his hands. He had told her about the fact she could not have children and Caitlin had gone crazy. Her eyes had nearly exploded out of her sockets. He would never forget that look of horror, of sheer distress. She had held on to her stomach and rubbed it slowly, as though she was trying to fix her broken reproductive system. They had never spoken about children. They had never even discussed the idea, it was an assumption. He realised everyone thought they would be able to have children.

They had been so careful.

A part of him wished now they hadn’t been. If she had fallen pregnant before the change, Caitlin would not have to face the rest of her life without knowing what it would be like to have her own children. He hated what he had done to her. He could only hope that she would come around one day. That she would realise that a life without children might not be such a bad thing. He had never considered children, being an only child he had never sought the company of others.

The way he saw it, his feelings were irrelevant. He wanted Caitlin to be happy. He just did not know if it was the fact she could not have children, or the fact she was different, or whether she was still shocked after Emily attacked her.

He did not know a lot.

It was easier to hide his head in the sand, to pretend his life was over.

He needed to buck up his ideas. He needed to act normal, or as much as was possible. The concept of normal had never been so blurred.

He turned on the TV and the Xbox and got ready to play his favourite warfare game to clear his head.

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