Forgotten Royalty (Escaping The Throne) (11 page)

I had just bitten Damian and it was like nothing I’ve ever experienced.
“I’m ready.” Damian looks into my eyes and I search his mind, I know if I can
access that memory again, I’ll have no trouble transforming. “I love you, Sara
Payano Lykaios.” He used his last name with mine. We were married in the eyes
of the clan. I begin to shake. I fall to the floor on my hands and knees.

I roll to my side, “I love you…Damian Lykaios.” I seize so hard I lose
my breath. Damian is beside me holding me as I lay on my side. I feel my pain
leaving me and going to him, he’s absorbing more than he needs to, but I feel
that he wants my first time to be easier than his was. I feel my bones cracking
like they are breaking. I’m transforming. I feel my grandfather’s thoughts and
energy flowing to me. “Grandpa, stop. I don’t want you to go.” I am crying
uncontrollably as I transform.

“My child, I will never leave you. My memories will be with you always.
Let me give you my strength. You will need it in the upcoming battle.” Flashes
come to me. “Sara, I need to tell you one more thing. The reason they want you.
Your mother…she…was a dhampir.” As he completes his sentence, he is gone. I can
still hear him in my mind as I reach into his memories, but I can feel that his
life force is completely in me now. He’s really gone.

I roll off of the floor in my wolf form and, using the mind link, ask the
only question I can think of, “Uh guys…what’s a dhampir?”