Vampire Secrets: Supernatural Romantic Thriller (Fated Vampire Book 3) by Nikki Grey

Author:Nikki Grey [Grey, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hewlett-Packard Company
Published: 2024-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Adrian

I knew that this was a possibility, and yet, I was still hoping that the scroll was wrong, that Lilith’s father made a mistake. I was already sitting atop my horse, the powerful creature underneath me steady and patient, everything I was not at this moment.

The weight of the day’s revelations pressed heavily upon me, and I had no idea what to do, where to go. Moments after I rushed out, Lilith emerged from the hut as well.

“Adrian!” she called out to me, looking at me with those eyes that held both love and concern. “Wait a moment, please…”

“I can’t, Lil,” I told her what I had been thinking from the moment the witch revealed it was all true. “I can’t go back with you.”

Her eyes widened in shock and disbelief. She remained standing where she was, as if frozen in time and space.

“What do you mean?” she managed to muster.

“Exactly that,” I repeated. “I can’t go back with you.”

“You can’t mean that,” she spoke softly, as if losing her voice. “You need to come home with me, home where your daughter is waiting for you. What am I supposed to tell her when I return without you, Adrian? What!?”

I could hear frustration and fear in her voice, and I understood where it was coming from. But this was the first time I couldn’t protect her, because this time, I would need to protect her from myself.

“Tell her I will come back later,” I replied. “I’m not leaving you, Lil. It’s not that. I just… I’m afraid of what I might become, of the unknown depths of my nature. What if I hurt you? Or even worse… what if I hurt Cass?”

The possibility of hurting those I loved the most loomed like a shadow over my soul.

“You would never do that, Adrian,” she replied immediately, taking a step towards me, as if to show me that she wasn’t afraid. “You have always been my protector. You have saved me so many times, in ways I can’t even begin to comprehend. You have always been my rock. You would never harm me or Cass. I know that.”

I wondered if I should tell her my deepest fear. I’d been keeping it to myself all this time, and it had been eating me up alive. For a while, I even thought that I managed to push it into the darkness of my subconscious mind, that it would not follow me any longer. But now, it was exactly the opposite.

I had always been afraid of the vampire inside of me. My human parents managed to help me keep it contained, to keep it under control and it never surfaced, unless someone I loved was in mortal danger. Then, I would allow it to come to the surface and do what it was meant to do.

Now, with this newfound knowledge in sight, I wasn’t sure whether I was actually controlling the animal inside of me or if it simply allowed me the illusion of control.

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