Epilogue

Months have passed and I am back on Irantus. Months that I could finally be with Xandros. Nothing as his blood bride or his personal blood bank, but as his lover, as his wife. You would think George would have a terrible time with this, which is not at all after he met a beautiful woman in town and later marries her and has the children I could not give him. We ourselves had tried but in vain. I never even thought about getting pregnant until one day the verdict came. I had been sick and cranky for days, more cranky than I normally was, which made Xandros quite cranky as well, so he couldn't perform his duties as leader even. Until he got tired of it on the third morning and called a doctor in. Who told me I was pregnant? The impossible according to many, and a miracle according to others.

Firius is in prison a little further from the building of the Vampire Sanctuary. Where he has been locked up until now, until eternity, or until someone gets tired of his whining and puts an end to it. The man who had caused me so much suffering could now all happiness never be released. I didn't see Verona or Waylon after the day they disappeared. Sadly, I missed Verona so much, and now sure that I am pregnant and have no one to talk to. Other than Xandros and Remus, who are both not real talkers. Although my bond with Remus has improved a lot after the months of making up after I left them on earth. Remus had blamed me for this more than Xandros himself. From then on, Remus was more like a brother to me than a helper. He was always ready, he made me help where he could and even Kado visited a few times, which already improved my mood a lot. Of course not without the all-seeing too of Remus.

Grimore hasn't been seen since the day he saved me. Just like Quinn, who disappeared like Grimore in complete silence. No one has seen them again, and sometimes I keep wondering why Grimore did all this. Though I didn't have to wait long before I found my answers in a letter addressed to Xandros. Of course, Xandros had not given that letter himself, but I had seen it one day in his home office. A letter, full of confessions of what he had done. He was the one who tried to destroy Xandros and me. He was the one who decided that Xandros should make me a vampire. Outside Xandros' knowledge, of course. Everything he confessed to. Poisoning Xandros by making his disease worse to bite me though so many times that one day he would turn me, everything Grimore had planned. All of him though stood with the influence of someone else. Who could only be Quinn to me? What a horrible vampire. I couldn't be happier that he's gone, though it would have been better if this vampire had been locked up like Firius. Although Grimore had no control over my pregnancy which was getting heavier by the day.

Now at 6 Months far, I am almost ready to give birth. Never before did I think I would get pregnant and give birth months early, even. But when Dr. Hopius gave me an ultrasound of our child, it showed that she was ready to come into our world. Even though she stayed put a few weeks longer than he predicted. He was also the doctor who helped me put the child on this planet. Never before had a vampire doctor known a child to be born. And so this miracle was something he had to see from his own perspective. And so our daughter was born at 6 months of age with a beautiful forest of hair, just like her father, and amber eyes, just like me. Two things that made her the most beautiful being on earth. Though the shock was there of what she had to drink now. No one had ever seen this, no one had ever experienced this here on Irantus. Though my motherly sense was ahead of me and I gave her my breast which miraculously made food for her. A mixture of milk and blood. Something my body provided for her. For a time I was the center of attention. Especially by bystanders who couldn't believe I had a child. For example, we had visitors every day. From all of them high-class vampires. Until one day, Xandros closed the castle to provide for his wife and his little baby daughter Hera the necessary rest. So the castle became quiet again, and we could live our own lives in the castle with our daughter and my beloved husband. Xandros often worked at the headquarters after their baby became one-year-old, and Remus as a regular helper helped her with everything she needed for the baby. Even though it was something that didn't occur in the vampire world, it occurred in me. I made Remus the protector of Hera, our daughter. If anything ever had to happen to us, he would take on the task of protecting Hera. A task he did take very seriously, and only he was capable of. Sometimes he was even a bit too serious in his task, I thought. But I had never been so happy as at this moment. Who could have foreseen this? That I would be happiest with my kidnapper. The kidnapper who gave me this wonderful gift. A gift I never expected to have and will cherish until my death, my daughter.