0273: The Vampire's Daughter, Book Three

“O.K., I’ll bite,” Henry said. “Just let me go back and get the back stabbing bitch.” He turned and walked out.

Gan and Sol watched as he walked away. A group of vampires huddled around him and talked.

After several minutes, Sol said, “You won’t talk to him here because you don’t want to divulge the information you are going to give him to me.”

Without turning, Gan said, “You read that from my mind?”

“Yes.”

“You know,” Gan said, turning to Sol, “if you practiced more, your ability would be much stronger. It’s rather impressive what you’ve been able to achieve with what little training that fool sire of yours could provide. If I had a few years with you, you could really get somewhere.”

“Get somewhere? It doesn’t look like I’m going anywhere at all anytime soon. You might just get those few years to train me as you see fit. I could use purpose, sitting around waiting is starting to drive me nuts.”

Gan laughed. “Youth,” he said. “You are immortal, time is virtually meaningless.”

“I’m only immortal if I don’t get killed, and my ability to avoid that seems somewhat limited at present.”

Gan looked at Sol and said, “And yet you don’t seem to fear death at all.”

“You can’t live life fearing it will end.”

“No, you can’t. But I doubt you have anything to fear at present. Henry is a good man. He will listen to reason.”

“Reason that cannot be shared with me.”

“That’s right,” Gan said, turning back to the convoy outside the castle. Henry was just starting back with two female vampires close behind him. “That jokester is going to bring her, what a…”

“Do you want me to kill her?” Car and Belinda asked in unison.

“Oh, I would love it,” he said. “But you will leave her alone. For now. However, should she threaten Sol in any way, please feel free to ignore my directive.”

“We will,” they said.

“Gan,” Henry said, walking up to the door. “I’ve brought my two escorts. You know Sara.”

“And I know Jennifer, too,” he said. “But I suspect you knew that.”

“Yeah, well, there’s nothing like a little reunion. Besides, I don’t know your castle like they do,” Henry said.

“And they don’t know it as well as you think they do,” Gan replied.

“I fancy you’re right about that. But what little they know is more knowledge than I’ve got, so I’ve prepared as best I can. Let’s get this show on the road.”

“Yes, lets. Car, Belinda, you will stay with Sol. I’ll take our newest guests with me. If there is any sign of danger, kill Sara first and then Jennifer. Do your best to let Henry live,” Gan directed. Sara looked away from Gan as he said this, but Jennifer’s face showed a glimmer of fear before hardening.

“Follow me,” Gan said, walking into the inner court.

Sol and the two girls stood watching. “I hope I don’t have to kill Henry,” Car said, breaking the silence. “I don’t much care about the other two, but Henry is a really nice vampire.”

“He seems it,” Sol said. “His laugh is so honest. It’s like a child’s laugh.”

“Yeah, that’s what I like about him,” Car said. “Still, I’ll bleed him dry if I have to.” The comment was made without any change in her tone or demeanor.

Sol looked at her with his head slightly tilted and thought how odd a little girl she was. It was at that moment that he noted how similar she was to Susan. It wasn’t just that both were children in body. It was the maturity with which Car and Susan acted.

“How old are you?” Sol asked.



[The Vampire's Daughter: An ongoing vampire story. Copyright Reuben Gregg Brewer, 2005, 2006, 2007. All rights reserved.]