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“Thirty-nine.”
“When is your birthday?”
“What the fuck is this?” Hugh growled. “Just explain what the hell you all are taking about.”
“I promise I will, I’m trying to put the pieces together so that we have the complete picture.”
Hugh sighed, “My birthday is in three weeks.”
“What is your father’s name? Is he still alive?”
He shook his head, “No, he died when he was forty, and his name was Bryan. I never knew him.”
“Natural causes?”
“I think the autopsy said a massive aneurism.”
“What about your grandfather?”
“Dead at forty, too, his name was also Hugh.”
Cameron began to smile, “Your great-grandfather?”
“Galen, I don’t know how old he was when he died, but he was killed in a fishing accident.”
Cameron pointed at Hugh. “There is the connection.”
“What connection?” Kristin asked looking as confused as I felt.
“Hugh, your great-grandfather was a friend of mine. You’re right, he died from a fishing accident. He bled out while out to sea, and because he was considered a sailor, they gave him a burial at sea the same day he died. His body was never recovered, and your great-grandmother learned that she was pregnant shortly after he passed.”
“Well, shit.” I murmured as Kristin leaned back in her seat looking completely stunned.
“I don’t get it.” Hugh said as he glanced between us.
“Hugh, your great-grandfather was a vampire. I knew him. When he died, he must have bled out quickly, the people he was with were human, and they didn’t know what he was. They put his body to rest in the sea, but they never staked him.”
“Why would they stake him if he was already dead?”
“Because it keeps the soul from being reborn. When a vampire is staked, their soul is destroyed and returned to earth in ash. Because he wasn’t staked, his soul was reborn into his own son. Your great-grandmother found out she was with child just hours before she learned of his death.”
He looked completely befuddled. “What are you saying? I’m a vampire? If I am, why wasn’t my father?”
“It’s much more complicated than that. Your great-grandmother died in childbirth, and humans took your grandfather to raise. There was talk of going after him, but it was decided that we would wait until he was older. Sadly, he slipped out from under us and we lost track of the family.
“When your grandfather was married, he carried the gene of a reborn vampire, but never knew it. If a vampire male does not go through transition by the age of forty, they die.”
“And then what happens?” He asked.
“Well, we have to assume that the soul moves on to the next one in line. In which case was your father. Your father didn’t know his father, did he?”
“No, my grandmother learned of her pregnancy after my grandfather died.”
“And you?” Cameron asked quietly. “That’s how you didn’t know your father, you were conceived right around the time of his death. You carry the reborn gene, the blood of a vampire, and unless you transition over to a full-blooded vampire soon, you will be dead in three weeks.”
Hugh fell back in his seat and began to laugh. “You’re kidding, right? You’re trying to tell me that I’m some third generation re-incarnate of myself?”
“Kristin and Angelina are.” Cam said and Hugh glanced between us.
