Chapter 55: I Will be Her Executioner

SEBASTIAN.

The pain felt after the wounds caused by those demons did not compare with any pain experienced so far. I felt as if my flesh was melting on my bones.

My brain was so affected that I was delirious and just not thinking clearly. I remembered begging Teresa to use her blood to help me. I remembered Liam there asking her the same thing. My memories of last night were so mixed up.

And now Teresa was nowhere to be found. My connection to Vicky was still blocked. I didn’t want to give her any more worries. She still had enough problems to solve to give her another one.

The same thing happened yesterday. I blocked her from feeling my pain and despair. I didn’t want her to feel what it meant to be on the verge of death. Even if Liam was with me, he couldn’t help me.

What I still remember is how Teresa got so angry that I didn’t know if it was a dream or a reality, but her powers went up to another level. Feeling threatened, she reacted.

Erik had once told me that Jessica, Teresa’s mother, had the same powers that dwelt in her subconscious and released them in moments of balance.

That’s how she annihilated entire armies of vampires. She also silenced the dreaded Kane, an original vampire and Erik’s uncle, who butchered his family and killed his brother.

Life wasn’t easy with Erik, either. But he stood up despite the unfavorable events. Now he had to get his daughter back because, after last night’s episode and the discussion between her and my mother, there was absolutely no doubt that Teresa was Erik’s long-lost daughter.

The thought that bothered me was her restrained reaction when the time to help me came. She seemed to hesitate quite a bit. I didn’t know if it was because of the shock of seeing me like that or because she felt betrayed.

My heart was telling me it was the second option. That’s why I had to find her and talk to her. But it was as if she had disappeared from the surface of the earth. Maybe she didn’t want to be found.

“Liam, did you locate her? I’m already worried…” I added in a trembling voice, trying my best to drive away from my dark thoughts.

She was clearly not in danger. I would have felt it. Teresa can’t connect with me yet. Maybe these things were coming gradually.

“No Bash. Unfortunately, I have no news to give you, neither good nor bad. But we’re still looking for her. We sent the sentinels beyond Bellingham. She is not even in the park where you two met. But don’t worry, from what I could see yesterday, I know for sure that she can take care of herself.” Liam concluded, confused, folding his arms and probably still thinking about Teresa’s abilities.

After all, she was my Luna.

“God, I’m already worried. My connection to Vicky is still closed. I don’t want her to worry about me anymore.”

Getting up slightly, I headed for the window. I have been at home under my mother’s supervision since yesterday. Maybe I’ll need to have a discussion with her.

What I heard that day when she and Teresa spoke determined me to bring Erik and his daughter closer to each other. At the same time, I wouldn’t want to reveal it to Erik until I was sure of myself.

The problem was very delicate, and the idea of telling him directly that Teresa was his daughter was out of the question. It was a shock to me. I could only imagine the shock in him.

This man has been looking for his daughter for twenty years now. “Okay, we will leave it to that, for now! Indeed, after what happened yesterday, it is clear that she will not be in danger. And I know you have questions, Liam, but I promise I’ll answer them as soon as possible. Meanwhile, there are other people directly involved who need to know what happened to us last night. Do we know anything about these beasts that attacked us?”

I felt the intense need to find out as much as possible, especially seeing their size and the fact that flames doing no harm simply surrounded them...

This aspect really intrigued me. If these demons turned out to be our enemies, which they did, then our species was in great danger. And if Teresa was the answer to this equation, our salvation, then I had to look for a way not to seem like a soulless son-of-a-bitch, especially because I loved this woman enormously.

“I intend to form a research team and analyze some hairs found in your wounds, Bash. I am convinced that we will find many answers. We will also need the knowledge of Luana, who, by the way, tried the serum with pure iron sent by our supplier and advanced a lot with the research. But it’s still not enough. We will need…”

“Yes, I know, Teresa’s blood!” I interrupted him nervously because I knew that this would mean a rupture, perhaps irreparable. If Teresa was who I thought she was, her blood was regenerating at an astonishing rate, being a mixture of original vampire blood with that of a warrior fairy. “I have to solve this problem somehow, not to seem heartless to her, Liam!”

Not only did I repeat this in my mind every other second, but I felt the need to say it out loud.

“Alpha, you have to take things easy and smart. I’m sure you’ll find a way. You are a man full of resources.”

Every time Liam addressed me with this title, I knew he was serious and that his involvement in this would go deep. This problem got very complicated and the more we tried solving it, the worse it became.

After Liam left the room, my thoughts overwhelmed me again. “Where are you, Teresa?”

However, I felt she was not in danger and that I had to give her time and space to assimilate everything she lived with last night. It was certainly difficult for her to accept that she was not a normal person with normal feelings. That calmed the wolf in me. Then a light knock on the door interrupted my line of thought.

“Son, it’s me. Can I come in?” I heard my mother’s worried voice on the other side of the door.

She felt my terror. I had not blocked her out of ignorance, and now I was sorry. I worried about her very much. Only she knew what she went through, not being able to do something or to send word to Liam to see what it was about. By the time I entered the house safe and sound, she had died inside her ten times.

“Yes, Mother, you can come in!” I warmly invited her. Her face was somehow twisted by the worry she had experienced in recent days. I was trying to imagine her feelings, knowing that I was in danger. I had experienced a similar pain at Bella’s death, but my son had not yet been born.

Although the desperation to lose a loved one was the same, we could not compare the two situations. With no warning, she wrapped her arms around me, sighing slightly.

“Mother, I’m fine. Please don’t worry, it is not the case. And that is thanks to Teresa. That’s why I called you here to discuss an issue that has remained undiscussed, and it is urgent.” And saying that, Mother moved away so she could look me in the eye.

“As far as I realize, it’s really serious, isn’t it? What’s bothering you, my son?” Mother opened the conversation easily.

She sat on the edge of the bed and waited patiently for me to have the courage to start. Her face, wrinkled by this ruthless time, became brighter and calmer.

If we went into the depths of the problem, I had to confess everything to her, from the serum I was making, and although she knew about it, she did not know that Teresa’s blood was the miraculous and main ingredient, to my suspicion that Teresa could be Erik’s daughter . Not to mention her powers that came from nowhere and that they are developing more and more every day.

Teresa was a kind of time bomb. It will be necessary to channel and control all these powers because instead of helping her, they could destroy her.

She was a novice in everything she lived, and probably annoyed by all these inexplicable things. Maybe she didn’t understand what was happening to her, so I thought Erik might be the only person to guide her.

Maybe I needed some advice from my mother on how to tell Erik to initiate her without commenting on my suspicions. Anyway, I got convinced that something was going on in his soul when Teresa was around. It was the calling of blood, and it was inevitable.

“Mother, I’m beginning to believe that Teresa is and always has been the solution to all our problems! And yet I still believe that I will be her executioner!”