Riley Hayes | A Vampire Novel | Book 2

Chapter 14 - raging lust

Leuca's POV

Yesterday had been quite a struggle, taking her finally home with me and my son. She is absolutely in distress about even coming back home with me.

It frustrated me that she felt so at ease there but not with me. I couldn't show that frustration to her. I had to understand her situation. Her point came across when she absolutely went mad at me and even showed some of the scars she had.

Some I had inflicted on her.

It was just when I had bought her and she never behaved, gradually I started to tolerate that misbehavior more and started to feel for her. Feelings I shouldn't feel for a human but emotions that I can't hold back anymore.

Have I told her the L-word? No... It is hard for me to even think about it. I have been like this for 2344 years. I always denied anyone coming close to me. Not physically but romantically. The one who got somehow close was Althea but even she couldn't get me to lower my walls.

Riley somehow has.

I finally have her around me again.

Yesterday it was my siblings who were causing trouble and my son revealed his ability.

I couldn't feel anything but pride in him. Rarely royalty gets an ability and here was my son, my flesh and blood with one.

And an incredibly one, mind reading.

He had made some weird comments the last few days I had got to know him a little. But it never crossed my mind that he would have an ability as well especially because he is born from a human. Though he doesn't look like it.

There must be some downsides to a human parent. I just haven't seen it in him yet.

I always have been afraid to become a father, I raised Amalia and it went well but being a father? My father gratefully fucked up so to say, so what if I would do the same? Now I didn't have much of a choice anymore because I am a father.

I do need to get to the bottom of how it happened in the first place. I don't suspect Riley using any potion of fertility. But maybe someone has used it on her without her knowing? If so then that's a huge problem.

My darling sisters had gone too far, thinking about hurting Riley. Maybe even already forming a plan to do so. During the last three years that Riley has been gone and I couldn't help but search for her, they had asked many times to stop the search but I couldn't.

They didn't understand my feelings for her, a human yes.

Because of my absence of the past few days and my slacking of three years of work had piled up immensely. So for the next three days, I worked day and night until most of the pile had sunken down.

I was interrupted by a knock on the door and Damian's voice asking if he could come in. I signed, actually no but I could take a small break. I was about to reply when he already opened the door, "did you just..."

Damian shrugged as he let himself fall onto my office couch. "Your thoughts are always all over the place, you think no and yet you'll say yes."

I squinted my eyes at him, such bravery. If I had dared to speak like that to my father at that age I would've been hanged for hours until I could only beg him to get me down. "Didn't your mother teach you about using it so much on others?"

"She did, I'll scare others off like this. No one likes their private thoughts to be so open to me and then she'll be scared I'll never make any friends." He answered honestly, he knew, and here he was doing it anyway.

It made me laugh, "do believe me when I say you'll be scaring a lot of people in the future. Friends are scarce for vampires like us." I replied

Damian hummed and leaned his head back, "I don't care, I'll make friends when I have nothing better to do. For now, I just want to spend time with mom." He then looked at me, "you still haven't told her."