Page 67 of I Dated a Golden Vampire
“Good.She’s changed her occupation from assassin to rescue for hire.As I said, she is changing things back.”She chuckled.“I think she would like being a mystery beast.”
Khy finished, and Vesta pulled the dress back over her breast and burped her baby.
“Ready to see the house?”
“Sure.So, you are attached to the island?”
“Yup.Thirty-four years ago, a Hyreno in rut came to our shores, and I selflessly threw myself on him to save the population.”Ysell snickered.“Riro’s father was an arrogant jackass, but he was good in bed or on the beach.He also provided for Riro once I told the Hyreno that he was on the way.”
“Was his wife pissed?”
“She had kicked him out while he was in his delicate condition, so she suspected the result.She had already provided the heir, so no one really minded Riro’s existence.Juro has his own heir now, so this part of the family line has no link to the throne.”
“Good.Pria doesn’t need that headache.She’s had it hard enough over the last few years.”
“Indeed.So, are you thinking that Khy will have a cousin soon?”
“Yes.She will have one in eleven months.Little boy.”
Ysell smiled.“Wishful thinking?”
“A little beast told me.If she were changed in the same lab, she has far more activations than even she knows about.”
“You don’t know?”
“She has been changed...extensively.She’s also a bit older than we are.She was there a while.”
“How extensively?”
“She was carrying me once, and I touched her jaw.It was metal cladded.I don’t think she can speak.”
Ysell slowed.“Metal?On her face?How tall is she?”
Vesta held her hand a few inches above her own head.“Nearly six feet.”
“And wiry build?”
“Yeah, she’s like jerky.But there is something so solid about her.You feel safe with her the moment she touches you.”
Ysell sighed.“I have met her.After Pria was injured, Riro went a little crazy, and he was taken for ransom.I was going crazy, and a number came up on my screen.It said if I wanted him back alive and free, to pay for travel costs.”
Vesta laughed.“That sounds like her.She obviously got him back.”
“She brought him to the hospital and got him healed before they called me.”
“When I arrived, she demanded three hundred credits for snacks in a text.I paid thirty thousand without hesitation, and there was a flicker of night sky in the corner of the hospital room.The sky bowed, and then it left the room, and Riro woke up.”
“Did he know how he got home?”
“Nope.”
“You didn’t tell him?”
“I didn’t know where to start.”Ysell laughed.“Telling my son would have made me sound insane.A message on a screen.A ransom.A bill for snacks after he was recovered.A mysterious figure made of midnight eating cheesies.It sounds insane.It would sound like I am aging dramatically.”
Vesta laughed.“It does sound weird when you hear it out loud.”
“Life sounds weird when you say it out loud.”Vesta smiled.
