Chapter 57: And All For a Damn Serum!

SEBASTIAN.

I knew that what I said earlier would turn against me just when I expected everything would resolve. Teresa would never forgive me.

She will surely believe, if she doesn’t already, that I was a person of the lowest, that I played with her feelings, and that I used her in the worst possible way.

The truth was different. I can understand her distrust, but I can’t understand that she doesn’t want us to talk, to clarify things. And here I am with Mother, trying to find a way not to lose the only woman I’ve ever loved.

“Bash, my son, don’t be so harsh on yourself. How could you hurt the woman you love? It’s absurd, don’t you think?” She slightly broke the silence that really drove me crazy.

“It will be absurd when I cannot convince her that my intentions were clear and sincere. That I approached her only for her blood.”

I knew that now my mother would draw her own conclusions, and I really wanted this to happen.

“I don’t quite understand. You said that besides what we already know, in the serum, you would need the blood of a descendant ... of ... an ... original vampire? God, what do you want to tell me is that…?”

She couldn’t continue the question, as her gentle eyes became two question marks.

“Mother, I know it’s hard to believe. And you’re going to ask me if I’m sure of that. Well, do you remember the day you and Teresa talked down in the kitchen?” again I told her things known only by her, exposing myself.

“Yes, but how ... so it was you? Did you hear us talking?”

“Yes, it was me! That day I found out, maybe more than Teresa told me. I didn’t know everything in detail and I don’t even know why I listened. I’m not that kind of person and you know that. But what I found out later shocked me and still shocks me today. Associated with your discussion is such a well-hidden and painful truth that could change many lives. Including mine.”

“Son, if a few minutes ago I didn’t understand you now, even less. Where do you want to go with this? What truth are you talking about?” There were a lot of questions, I lacked the answers.

“Mother, strange things are happening to Teresa. I don’t think she told you. She doesn’t understand herself either, and I try to help her as best I can. At the first attack, when I had to transform, Teresa ran away from the beast that kept chasing her. At one point, although I think she didn’t realize it for the first time, I saw it clearly. She ran so fast that she left the demon way behind her. Then, on the second attack, her sprint intensified. Her smell became very sharp. She knows and hears everything I communicate with Vicky through the link and what was more serious happened last night during the attack in Wales,” I stopped for a moment, staring at her for a long time, and realized that she was barely processing what I was telling her.

Surely, she already knew the outcome of this entire story, but she was waiting for me to reveal myself. To take all the heaviness from my soul.

“Bash, from what you’re telling me, I conclude, and I don’t intend to rush things, that Teresa isn’t really ... human?” she added with fear, lowering the tone of her voice.

“That’s exactly what I suspected from the first day of the first attack, but I needed more evidence. And after talking to Erik, I became convinced of something I’m even afraid to say out loud. “

“What did Erik tell you? Make me understand!”

I knew that the time had come for confessions and that there was no point in hiding this secret. It was time to bring the two of them closer without putting too much pressure on their feelings. What they lived through was difficult.

“Mother, what I will tell you will have to remain between us. Teresa doesn’t have to find out. At least until I’m sure of it. Erik visited me at the lab about a week ago, just before he left for Russia, and told me the story of his life. The story of a grieving father who lost the love of his life and his daughter in a shipwreck.”

My mother’s face was already expressing an inner terror, and her eyes widened in astonishment. “With all he had left were the memories of the woman he loved and hoping one day he will find his daughter again. Because his daughter did not die in that tragedy on the ocean. Erik took her ashore to the beach and instructed her to stay there and wait for him. But the child was only five years old. The silence was deafening, and she couldn't shake the feeling of fear that crept over her. She got taken by a married couple, thinking she got lost and they brought her to town. She has since been adopted and raised by adoptive parents until she reached adulthood when she could take her life into her own hands and take on responsibilities.” I paused again, getting up and heading to the window.

The weather outside was just like my soul, gloomy and cold.

“Son, you are talking to me, telling me all this, and I realize you are telling the story of your fiancée, Teresa. How is that possible? Unless…”

“Unless that five-year-old girl on the beach is Teresa! Mother Erik’s daughter’s name is Teresa. How big should the coincidences be? Besides, I don’t believe in them. Your destiny is written to you from the very beginning,” I ended on a gloomy note, wishing that Teresa’s destiny had not been that tragic.

“Sebastian, what I hear from you now, although it seems incredible, may be true. And the two do not know of the existence of the other? Is that fair?” My mother’s voice became serious, worried.

“Unfortunately, I don’t know if it’s fair or not. What I do know is that I can’t go to Erik to throw this news in front of him until I do more research, although everything has been confirmed to me. It remains to be seen how the two will react to the news when they get face to face. Teresa is furious as she thinks she has been abandoned. She was too young and in a state of shock!”

“And how can you be so sure that everything you tell me is true? If you ask me, Teresa doesn’t look like a vampire, but maybe I’m wrong. “

“You are definitely wrong. Here’s another coincidence. Jessica, Erik’s late wife, possessed quite a lot of power. She was a warrior fairy and at the age of 25, she developed them little by little. If she concentrated enough or felt threatened, she could kill whole hordes of vampires just by thinking of that and also controlling the fire with extraordinary mastery. Putting aside her supernatural qualities, those of her father, the vampire-specific speed, self-healing, and lifting from the ground, not to mention the reading of thoughts and links between me and Vicky, the coincidence we are talking about is visibly fading, leaving room for a truth that, although difficult to assimilate, is as real as can be. Teresa is a warrior fairy and is the daughter of Jessica and Erik. And with that, I ended my plea, Mother!”

“Wow, last night’s events probably marked you, and I don’t mean that you were so close to death, but rather to the way Teresa handled the situation. Don’t tell me she got angry, and the rest is history,” Mother concluded in one breath, covering her mouth with her trembling hand as if she still found it hard to believe that we were talking about the same person.

“Mother, the demons that attacked us last night seemed to have escaped from hell. They were surrounded by flames, twice as sharp fangs and as big as you can imagine. They were certainly not werewolves, rather hybrids of failed experiments. However, the word fear for Teresa did not exist. All this time, her wound, which was quite ugly and prevented her from walking, got completely healed. I tried to resist by myself until Liam arrived. I blocked Vicky from relieving her of the pain I felt, and then hell started for me. With the first blow of those demonic beasts, I felt the flesh peeling off my bones and life slipping away from my body. It was as if they had poison in their claws, silver. Even so, I could withstand about ten blows and then, under Teresa’s terrified gaze, I collapsed. Then Liam arrived with the sentinels and the show began. As if I was in a dream, I watched her get so pissed off and just like her mother Jessica with the power of thought and getting up from the ground, she knocked them all down and I don’t exaggerate at all!” I sighed briefly and turned my gaze to my mother.

A question bothered her.

“Bash, something tells me this is only one part of the problem, the practical one, but who solves the problem of your heart?”

Mothers, how would they know something is wrong, especially mine, who had always been connected to me and my pain and thoughts?

“Here is another approach, Mother. I could even say a misunderstanding. Liam then urged her to help me, and I made the same mistake. Then everything broke down. She saved me, but now I don’t know who will save my heart, Mother.”

“And all for a damn serum…”

“I will never endanger my love for Teresa, and if that means giving up making that serum, then so be it!”