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Wait.. What?

"Belong to you? How?" Rune ask and I feel his grip tighten. My heart starts to race and I'm really hoping that I'm not adopted. "As you know.. Vampires can't have children EXCEPT blue bloods. If she is the missing child then it would all make sense and she would be my mate." Leon says with absolute calm.

I take a slight step back and the movent isn't missed by Leon. His dark eyes sweep over to me and pin me to the spot. "And if she already has a mate?" Rune says in a deathly low voice. Leon doesn't take his eyes off me as he says "Doesn't bother me. If you really are her.. you are my one chance at having children.. For that.. there isn't much I wouldn't do or allow."

"Woah, woah, woah.. Let's all just take a step back. I have been a freak accident since day one. We all know this.. This.. all of this doesn't mean that I'm the missing child. Hell, even if I was adopted that doesn't make me THE missing child." I take a deep breath trying to think.

"We are getting WAY ahead of ourselves right? Let's just take a step back and make sure we have all our facts straight before we start talking about other things okay?" I say slightly panicking. Leon smiles but otherwise nods his head in agreement and before I have a chance to look at Rune he shifts us to his room.

"Don't worry about what the Vampire is saying. Even IF you are the missing child it won't change anything, understand?" Rune says spinning me to look at him. I place my hands on his hard chest and say "Rune.. the odds of me being the missing child is next to impossible. I'm not that child okay? I didn't start having Vampire things happen until after Leon tried to turn me remember?"

Rune grabs my face gently and says "That doesn't mean anything love. Royals.. when they give birth, the child is very much human... it's not until their first death will they come back as Vampires." I blink several times as I try my best to process what he was telling me. "Rune, I'm not this missing child." I say with conviction.

He looks at me with a grave face and says "And if you are?" I look at his intense golden eyes and see the worry, the fear and I know it's for me. "I'm not." I say with certainty for him and myself. My parents would have told me something if I was adopted.. There would have been signs.. there would have been something but I had sensed nothing.. saw nothing.

I lean into Rune and he wraps me in a fierce hug. "All I'm saying is that if you are this child.. I won't let it change anything. No matter what." His voice is stern and I grow worried. "What is the council?" I ask in a soft voice and I feel him stiffen. "It's a group of very old, very powerful Fae... They make sure the Fae are following the rules and everyone is playing nice."

"And if someone isn't?" I ask even though I kinda have a feeling I already know the answer and I won't like it. "They eliminate them." Rune says and my heart drops. "Can they eliminate you?" I ask in a small voice. "They can try.." Rune growls and tightens his hold.

"You are mine love.. I can even go as far as saying I found you.. You belong to me and only me. If they want to take you from me then they will have to go through me first." Rune shifts us to the bed and pulls me onto his lap. "Just let me hold you love.." My heart broke a little thinking about what this could all mean.

I'm not this missing child.. I can't be and if I have any say.. I won't be. Even if by some freak chance I am... I will become lost again.. even if that means I have to be "missing" for the rest of my life. I won't let Rune get hurt because of this.. because of me. I feel like I just came back from the dead.. literally but it seems like I will be "offing" myself again if things take a turn for the worst. Well.. not really but I will make it seem that way.