Chapter 171 - Fuck Those Bloodsuckers
"Two hours. Have you told them yet?"
"This is war." She shrugged. "Also, Valerick can you pull George out of The Process?"
A frown quickly spread through his face.
"Only for a little while, he has been through a lot with Mira's discovery."
Zezi had been shocked with Mira's discovery to be George's child but that had been it, also that she was a vampire.
That had been it.
She didn't hate her for being what she was, neither did she hate George for anything.
She was just surprised.
Mira would always be her little pup no matter what.
Her sweet baby.
She would do anything to protect her.
When she saw that Valerick's frown remained, her hand slipped to his neck, gliding over her mark that was imprinted on it. His body trembled slightly at the contact, as he fought the consequences of it that spread through his veins.
He should take her right now, but there were so many things to be done.
Although they were slowly losing a place on his priority list.
"Please."
By the Blood, not the begging.
"A day." He gritted. "Only for a day, and the little vampire stays. I have been generous."
"Thank you."
That went straight to his head.
"What more do you want? Ask me."
"Their safe return."
"That will be done."
She pulled her hand away and he fought a war, to act unaffected.
"You are ripping a father and his newfound daughter apart."
"You would have done it so you can have your army."
"Yes, but you are the one doing it now. What is going on?"
"I am trying to do what I can do for my people. I have to try."
He took her hand in his and trailed the lines on her palms. She felt so warm, so right.
"I am sorry for putting you into this difficult situation, my understanding of it might not be full, but the pain in our bond explains it to me. I love you, Zezi." Then he held her gaze. "My Heartbeat." He paused, and pressed his forehead against hers. "My soul. Forgive me, that I cannot shield you from this pain. I tried, I really did. I am sorry."
Her lips trembled with unshed tears. She could feel the sincerity of his words, which just made everything worse.
Why did it have to be like this?
At that moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Go away," Valerick ordered.
"Your Majesty?"
"Your King is begging for forgiveness at the moment, go away."
"But your Majesty, you ordered for the news to reach you first no matter what. It is about the child. We might have found out who her mother is."
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Delice was Mira's mother?
That made no sense!
There was no way George would have had sex with a vampire except she was his soulmate, which was impossible because George's soulmate happened to be her stepsister, who was dead.
How did this even happen?
It must be a joke.
This couldn't be real.
But it was.
Delice was crying in one corner of Nicholas' office and when her gaze met Zezi's, the sorrow and conflict in her eyes said it all.
She was broken from within. Shattered into pieces.
"My Medallion--" her lips trembled, as she rose to her feet unsteadily. "She is my child and they won't let me see her."
Zezi moved over to her quickly, using her wolf's speed because it didn't seem like Delice was going to last on her feet.
"My Medallion is alive." She was trembling beneath Zezi's hold.
It was strange.
Zezi had never seen her so disoriented but she understood.
Laura.
That bitch!
That fucking blood-sucking bitch!
"It's okay." She murmured to her, running her hand over Delice's hair gently as she kept on crying and whispering the words, "They won't let me see her."
Zezi turned straight to Nicholas, who seemed to be having a serious conversation with Valerick.
Well, she didn't care about that.
"Why won't you let her see Mira?"
"She is unfit to be put into that situation yet," Nicholas replied with a bit of harshness to his tone like he was warning her not to interrupt him again.
"Let her see her child, doctor." Zezi fired back, and Nicholas' head gave into an involuntary bow at her tone.
Zezi could feel the heat of Valerick's gaze on her at that moment, but she didn't turn back to look at him.
He must be surprised that she could now make use of his tone of command, or maybe that wasn't what surpri----
'Do that again when we are alone.' Valerick's voice in her mind promised everything sinful, along with the tempting feelings that poured in her veins, that certainly weren't hers.
This really wasn't the time.
"He will let her see the child, Zezi, but she must be fit first." His voice was gentle, like he hadn't just been wreaking havoc in her head just now, and Nicholas stopped in his turn to the door.
Zezi nodded, as she helped Delice into a chair.
This was all so strange.
Calling Mira someone's child felt so strange, it was a huge pill to swallow but at that moment, all she could think about was how Delice had always been with Mira since the very beginning.
From the time in the Alpha's office when she had been carrying her, to the moment she had laid down her life to save her.
Her motherly instincts were definitely working overtime.
Something weighed heavy in Zezi's chest as she wondered if she had just lost her daughter to someone else who was her real mother.
Not the time.
She reminded herself.
How would George take this new information?
What about Mira?
How would they tell her all this?
Later. She would worry about all that later.
'Breathe.' Valerick's voice was in her head again but this time, with a relaxing effect. She took in a deep breath and let the tension in her shoulders dissipate.
"What shall I fetch you to ease your nerves, Delice?"
"My child. My Medallion." Her eyes were close to being blank, the longing in them overshadowing anything else. "Please."
"You will see her soon but---"
The doors to the office pushed open immediately, anger clouded the room.
"I did not lay with a Bloodsucker!" George stormed in, anger almost bursting through the buttons of his fitted brown shirt.
Zezi had expected Aunt Alice behind him but he was alone. She must be with Mira, protecting her from all this madness as George would term it. That was a good thing, she needed to be kept away from this for a while.
"I did not fucking sleep with that thing! You are all lying! My love," his eyes were on her now, and Zezi stood her ground under his gaze. "I am so tired of all this, Zezi." His voice was gentle now until it wasn't. "This fucking place drives me mad! Don't you see what they are trying to do?! To us?! They are forcing their way into our lives, trying to ruin us with lies. Fuck these Bloodsuckers! I hate them so much, I would never fuck one!"
"George---" she started to say, but a painful growl from him stopped her, as he held his head in his hands, gritting his teeth.
He went down.
"George!"
She had gotten to him before he got to the floor, but that had done nothing but mitigate his slow descent to the floor.
"We are losing him."
"I have missed you, come with me. They--- ahhh --- it hurts!"
He was bleeding and his eyelids were fluttering close. She was screaming for him to wake up, just as Nicholas was trying to stabilize Delice to do the same.
Some nurses snatched him away from her, and she watched with teary eyes, her breathing ragged with desperate pleading for him to wake up, because even if they were no longer what they used to be, this was still George.
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