Chapter 316

Chapter 316
Book #02:Chapter 316

Nico, Casper and I all exchanged nervous looks. Now only time would tell. Sitting down on the floor I snuggled in Casper's side, he put his arm around me and lightly kissed my head. I wish I could give Stephanie and her baby the healing power that I possessed to save them. Casper gently stroked my hair and began to talk casually to take my mind off the grave situation,

"Blood and Sally came back from Lourdes yesterday night. Blood wanted to see you but I said you were busy." Casper said.

Blood was my foster dad and Sally is my aunt. It's a complicated story but real my real father was a vampire nobleman who was married to Gwendolyn. He did not love Gwendolyn and fell in love with my human mother and had me. When my father said he was going to divorce Gwendolyn, Gwendolyn killed him. She then tracked down my mother and then poisoned her mind. My mother became anorexic and died of starvation when I was just a kid. I never knew about my vampire heritage. My only living relative was my Aunt Sally who had sealed herself away inside a house after having an argument with her boyfriend- my future adoptive parent Blood. When Blood was a young man he was madly in love with Sally but consider her too lowly to marry her. His solution was to secretly date her in private then ignore her in public. Sally soon tired off this and one night decided to run away. Blood caught her and in a fit of passion decided to imprison her in a cottage in the court grounds. But his plan back fired when Sally used her magic to stop him from entering the house. They didn't speak to each other for well over a decade. Sally was locked in the cottage and Blood was locked out. Anyway I kinda of reunited them after all these years and they are a really sweet couple. Blood isn't such a jerk as he used to be.

"Oh god!" A voice yelled loudly. I looked up and saw Rayne putting his hand over his nose.

Casper automatically bristled, he hated Rayne. Giving Rayne a scathing look Casper snorted, "What's matter demon."

I jabbed Casper in the side with my elbow and gave him an evil glare. Rayne glanced Casper up and down and ignored him. I hated all this male posturing.

Rayne inhaled the air and then struggled to breathe, "I can smell mandrake." He said.

"Mandrake has no smell, moron." Casper snapped.

"It does to demons! The smell is like rancid fish and putrefying cabbage it wreaks," Rayne gasped and then suddenly turned on Casper, "Did you do this vampire? Did you think this might be a funny stunt to pull?"

Casper leapt up and strode towards Rayne looking for a fight. Immediately I stepped in between Rayne and Casper, "Cut it out both of you!" I snapped.

Casper stupidly said, "I could take him on."

Rayne laughed, "Come on then."

The sound of Stephanie screaming silenced both of them. Rayne looked anxiously at the door,

"What is going in there?" he asked.

"She's giving birth." I said bluntly.

"But she wasn't due yet." Rayne said turning pale.

"The pregnancy accelerated and no one knows why." I explained.

"Why did you put the mandrake root in her room?" Rayne asked.

"Stephanie and the baby were dying so I asked Kala what to do in desperation. I kept asking her until she eventually spoke. But when she spoke it turned out to be Skyler's grandmother communicating through Kala's body. She was the one who told us about the mandrake."

"Mandrake is used to ward off demons. I can't go into that room because the smell is so offensive. It sounds like a demon is to blame for Stephanie's advanced pregnancy. Gwendolyn is targeting Stephanie and her child but why? Neither of them is in the prophecies. So why would she attack them. It makes no sense."

"She must be important because Skyler's Grandma saved her."

"Death would have not allowed her to do that very easily." Rayne said.

Suddenly our conversation was override by the unexpected noise of a baby's cry. The nurse ran out smiling and said,

"It worked. Stephanie has a baby girl. Both are doing well."

Nico, Casper and I followed the nurse towards the door but heard Stephanie yell,

"Don't you dare come in here- I look a complete mess."

The nurse rolled her eyes and we all waited outside. A few moments later the nurse brought out a tiny baby wrapped up carefully in white blankets. The nurse handed the baby to me and nervously I looked down at this tiny beautiful creature. She looked up at me and blinked, her eyes were deep vivid blue just like her father's, Rudolph, but she had her mother's hair and pretty bow mouth. I melted and looked up at Casper and said,

"I want one."

Casper went pale and mumbled something incoherent.

I noticed Rayne leaning over me smiling at the baby. My heart melted that was the first time I had ever seen Rayne actually genuinely smile. The tiny baby yawned sleepily and Casper softly said,

"We'll make her a princess."

"Has Stephanie decided on a name?" I asked.

"Dahlia, after her mother's favourite flower."

"Princess Dahlia, very pretty." I smiled.