Ava
How the heart desires!
Too quickly blessings have become our curse!
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They searched for weeks. The King was wild with grief. Peasants and nobles were rounded up, beaten, tortured, and killed, but no one knew anything about the child's abduction.
"O Sire."
It was the Queen. The King was standing by a window, looking out beyond the castle walls at the tranquil rolling hills of Megara.
"I pray your blessing upon this, your humble servant," she said, taking his bejeweled hand and placing it on her ripe, swollen abdomen."
The crease in the King's forehead deepened. His brows pinched together. He looked intently into his wife's eyes. She smiled.
"We have been given a wonderful gift," she said. "A second chance."
"Another son? A new heir?"
"I cannot promise you a son, for I cannot know whether it is a boy or a girl child," said the Queen, "but the omens point to health and long life."
He kissed the Queen. His hand had never left her stomach, and he felt the baby kick inside its mother's womb.
"It does not matter," said the King. "Boy or girl. If it lives, I will be content."
Within weeks, a healthy baby girl was born. The King allowed the Queen to name the princess.
She called the baby Ava.
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Vampyre: Desire Immortal
HorreurThe ancient village of Megara is getting ready for a wedding, and the bride is a vampire. Let the Blood Plague begin. As her thirteenth birthday approaches, Ava, Princess of Megara, knows her upcoming marriage to Wolfstan will plunge her into hell...
