Three birthdays welcomed me one night. Alexander and Alexandra were growing up into children,
Again not sure what happened :0
which meant I would soon have to get in touch with Brent about teaching Alexander about being a werewolf. A conversation I dreaded because werewolves lived in packs and they never stayed away from their pack for long. Leviticus told me it was only a matter of time before Brent returned back home. Leviticus also had a birthday and it was the hardest thing to watch him grow up, my first son an adult, it just didn't seem right.
He was prepared to move the next day, apparently he had been working with his father the past few years and that’s what he was going to do. "I though you wanted to be a musician," I said to him, upset at his revelation.
"I have an eternity. Mema I'm not doing anything bad I promise you raised me remember, but what I'm doing is important," Leviticus told me, as if I was the child.
"Just be careful," I cautioned.
Leviticus nodded then got a strange look in his eye, "When Ash is older tell him to come see me okay, I need to talk to him."
"Okay, but why?" I questioned confused.
"No reason," Leviticus told me and before I could protest he pulled me into a bear hug, "Love you Mema," he said before disappearing out the door.
"I love you too," I whispered, I didn't expect it to be so heartbreaking to watch him leave, so much had happened in eighteen years that it was hard to process it all.
It was a couple of days later that I got the strangest feeling like I had to go be somewhere. "Jessi, can you take care of Aria," I asked. Jessi nodded confused and unsure of why, I didn't exactly have anywhere to go. I didn't explain it to her, when I wasn't even sure myself. Some part of my brain told me where to go though and I ended up driving to the edge of Moonlight Falls to see a house, standing by itself. There is where I needed to be, yet I still wasn't exactly sure why. I climbed the three steps, hesitating at the door, I knew in myself that someone had messed with my head and that's why I was here, but at the same time I wanted to know why.
I walked through the door to see Vincenzo sitting on a chair. It all seemed wrong the house was to ordinary for him, only the chair actually suited him.
Yet, he must have drawn me here. He stood up to greet me, "I'm glad you’re here Larnika," Vincenzo said charmingly.
I put my hands up, "No you don't get to do that. Pretend everything's okay when you killed Jessie, when you took the love of my life from me. Deprived my children of a father, two fathers in Greyson's case," I yelled at him, but there wasn't as much anger as there should be instead I just sounded tired.
"I won't apologize for what I did Larnika, I'm a killer, I will always be a killer. I'm sorry but that is my nature, that is what is normal for me," Vincenzo explained simply, he didn't sound proud, in fact he sounded about as tired as me.
"That doesn't excuse it," I snap, "in fact that just makes it worse you have no remorse."
Vincenzo reached out to me, pulling me closer, "I know you hate me, but right now I need you to forget your hate Larnika. Please jut forget it."
If it hadn't been Vincenzo talking I would believe he was begging, my hands were placed on his chest and I still felt that anger. He wasn't messing with my emotions like he could have and maybe for a few minutes I could forget about what he had done. It had been so long. I shook my head angrily what was I thinking, he had killed someone I loved. He had admitted it himself, he was never going to change. Yet I wanted to forget just for a day. Vincenzo looked at me, I knew he was following my train of thought, and in seconds I felt his lips on mine. The explosion of feelings I hadn't expected, it was like the more wrong it was, the better it made me feel. I didn't even notice we had moved until I found myself on the floor in Vincenzo arms.
I wanted him, more than that I needed him, I needed to forget and in his arms I could forget.
It wasn't long until I could feel Vincenzo's fangs graze across my neck the feeling made me go crazy, as his fangs sank in I had never felt such a perfect mixture of pain and pleasure.
I wanted more, in fact I begged for me, "My child will be your last," Vincenzo promised me, laying me on the ground next to him, denying me what I wanted.
"I killed him for you Larnika," Vincenzo whispered in my ear. I clenched his hand, my anger returning, he didn't have to bring it up I wanted to forget for longer, "Stop," I ordered.
"No, how do you think Jessie would have felt watching you get pregnant to a hundred different men, eventually he would have died of old age," Vincenzo told me and it hurt because it was true.
"He could have raised his children," I protested, tears falling, I hated myself for what I had done now.
"No remember once the curse is broken Jessie will be back, ghost are free to roam, and he can be brought back you will have powerful witches as children who could do that for you. Larnika, you only have to wait a few hundred years if that. He can't be angry at you either you've done what you have to, don't you see what I'm giving you an eternity with the man you love if you chose it," Vincenzo said. I didn't want him to be right, but the truth was he was. He could come back, I could have him back. I let myself drift to sleep with that thought in my head.
The next day I woke up in bed at home, Jessi gave me a look saying some guy had taken me home. Obviously she would be expecting a pregnancy, the second I looked at her I felt guilty. I could never tell her, Vincenzo had killed her father. Instead I tried to ignore my guilt by offering to teach her how to drive, the return to normalcy was what I needed.
However my house could never exactly be explained as normal. We soon found out Alexander could change at will, something no other werewolf could do.
However he was still bound by the moon, having to change at a full moon. This should have been good but Alexander loved being a werewolf making his table manners appalling to say the least.
The first time he transformed Alexandra passed out and she was his twin sister. Added to that, Jessi had taken up alchemy promising me if their was a way to turn into a fairy, she'd find it.
She was extra attached to Aria who had aged up into a toddler, because she was what Jessi wanted to be.
Jessi also talked me into adopting another kitten, named Hazel as a mate for Carlos.
I thought it was probably good, because Carlos had been neglected lately. Some days however I did feel like a real family, when it was a hot summer's evening and the kids were all by the pool and Greyson was making drinks for everyone.
Greyson was doing well he had been accepted into Sunset Valley University and him and his girlfriend Fawn were going to stay there with my parents.
Soon enough it was his birthday and I just couldn't believe he was moving so far away.
"You don't hate me for leaving you Mema?" Greyson asked unsure when the day of his leaving arrived. "Of course not, you need to do what you want. Besides your grandparents need to see some of you kids," I said feeling bad I hadn't gone to see them, they were getting pretty old.
"I love you," he told me pulling me into a hug.
I watched him go with tears in my eyes, I also knew he was going to visit Kai in jail, he wanted to know his father and I couldn't fault him on that.
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