Chapter 4
Her heart fell as she stepped into the room. There were pictures of him and her mother everywhere. Pictures from many years ago were hanging on the wall, but the one picture that stood out the most was a family portrait. She stepped close to the portrait to see it better.
“It’s you.” A voice said softly.
“I know that’s me, but…”
“It is the only family picture we have. Only I have a copy. Your mother refused to keep one. She said if you where to see it...” He paused. “You would start questioning her and she was going to have a hard time as is. She didn’t want the questions.”
“You abandoned use!”
“No! I did not. Kim I had no chose. If I had stayed with you two and tried to have a family with a human wife. I would have lost both of you!”
“You did, the day you left.”
“Kim, please don’t. It is bad enough I lost your mother, and when she died I wanted to come and take you here. I really did, but I promised your mother.”
“My mother died and I was put through hell. Yeah dad that was some promise. Huh?”
“Kimberly, honey, I’m so sorry for all the crap you went through. I did my best to help, with out breaking my promise to your mother.”
“Why? Why now?” She asked her voice both furious and lost.
He looked at her for a minute. He knew what he had to say, but could he and was he ready to do that. To her, his daughter, he studied her face before he spoke again.
“About a month ago some one broke in here while Chris and Myself were in Germany. They stole some very important paper work. One of with happen to be the paper work starting that I was your father, which is very bad.”
“Why?” she interrupted.
“Well, because it’s looked down upon to have a child with a human. Plus you become a weakness to me. Let’s say I had stayed with you and your mother, and one of my kind got a hold of you. Well I would have to bend to there will. I would never let anything happen to you, but in a bind like that I would throw my own life away.”
She sighed softly, and he continued going.
“Now, Kimberly, what I have to tell you next. Well, its not easy for me to say.”
“Spit it out, please.” He sighed at my impatience’s.
“You’re not going to like me for a while, but the only way to be sure your safe is to, well, is to bring you into our world.” He stopped there; her face must have given some kind of understanding. She must have known what he was talking about.
“You can’t! No, I will not go along with that! I don’t care if you really are my father. I will not do that!” She spat at him.
He frowned; she did know what he meant.
“Kimberly, please you must understand. That is the only way that your will truly be safe. Your mother didn’t like the idea of it, so I didn’t push it, and look where it got her. She dead and it wasn’t an accident either.”
“What do your mean it wasn’t and accident!” She choked out the words. His sigh made things worse.
“Your mother, my wife, was killed in a car crash, but it was an accident. She was run off the road by someone that found out she was my wife. You should know damn well Raven never drank. She could even be in the same room with alcohol.”
“I, I uh…” She couldn’t find her words as tears slowly fell from her eyes. She knew her mother never drank alcohol. She knew something was a miss when they told her about the accident, but this, this she knew he wasn’t lying to her. She tried to speak again, but only managed a whisper.
“Why me, why an I the one that has to be his wife?”
He knew where this was going. He wrapped his arms around her, something he had wish to do for so many years, and hugged her as he whispered.
“Because, the Leader and his wife most both be of noble blood. You being my daughter, you have noble blood in you, but Chris can’t take you as his wife if you are a human.”
“Isn’t there someone else? A vampire of noble blood?”
“If there was I would even dream of turning you, but Kimmy, you’re the only noble blooded female. I’ve looked and the only other female with noble blood was banished for trying to kill our former Leader.” He sighed softly as he hugged her close. He didn’t want the future his daughter was about to be thrown into, but it was inevitable.
