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“No. We got to know them after they had been turned. We’d known Tobias and Regina back then, and we helped your parents to find human parents who could raise you before Tobias and Regina learned you even existed. But the problem was that Regina and Tobias found out about you just a few weeks before your foster parents’ car accident.”
“Did you know my foster dad was an alcoholic and my mother was an enabler?” Fiona asked, sounded irritated to the core.
“No. Your parents had tried to find hunter parents to take you in, hunters who had been friends of theirs for years, but no one would do it for them even though you were a huntress. So your mother and father had to quickly find human parents before Tobias and Regina learned of you. Your parents found a young couple with a son that needed the money, and they made arrangements to pay them monthly allotments to take care of both you and their son so that it appeared you were both their children,” Shelly said.
“Where are my parents now?” Fiona asked.
Michail said, “They are coming to Scotland. They have kept in touch with us and we’ve let them know what has happened in the last several weeks, but they have been out of the country for years.”
“But why not get in touch with me?” Fiona asked.
“Being what we are and what you are, they felt they needed to see you in person to explain everything or you might not believe them,” Shelly asked.
“Do you know anything about the curse I have?” Fiona asked.
“It’s not a curse,” Shelly said. “It’s a beautiful ability. No, we don’t know that much about it, but your dad does, and he plans to explain it all to you. That’s what he says it is. Something that is wondrous, not a curse.”
“Do you know if her parents want her to be a vampire or remain a hunter?” Arman realized just how much he didn’t want to lose her if she decided to continue to be a huntress.
“That’s totally up to Fiona,” Michail said. “Your parents will talk to you about it though, Fiona.”
“We are in agreement that you would be safer, Fiona, to have our abilities. Our kind can be ruthless, and you haven’t been trained as a hunter. But ultimately, it’s your choice,” Shelly said.
“Does my brother know that you are vampires?” Fiona asked.
“No. You are a huntress, and the vampires couldn’t control you, so no one could wipe your thoughts and tell you what they wanted you to believe. With a human, it’s easy to do. He has no idea about what we are. We’re just friends of your family and trying to make sure he has a good time in Scotland. It’s up to you if you want to tell him what all of us are, you included,” Shelly said.
“When are my parents coming to Scotland?” Fiona asked.
Arman realized she didn’t even know them, but maybe through her dreams she might have had with her father, she would feel some connection when she was reunited with him. Arman just hoped her father wouldn’t want to send her away to be with other hunters once the blood moon passed.
“They didn’t tell us exactly when they would arrive, but they said they were on their way,” Shelly said.
“I guess you couldn’t have taken me in when I was a baby,” Fiona said.
“We have always been vampires. We didn’t know anything about raising a hunter child. Besides, we didn’t learn about their circumstances until you were already placed with your foster parents,” Michail said.
Wait. Didn’t they say they had helped her parents find humans to raise Fiona?
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Fiona couldn’t believe that these vampires knew her own parents, or that her brother was still alive. She wanted to shout for joy. But she wanted to see her brother first, to know he really was safe. And her parents? That was going to be awkward. She didn’t really know them. Her mother not at all. Her dad only through dreams, if indeed the blond-haired guy was her dad.
“Do you still have visions of me and the future?” Fiona asked Arman.
“Not once you were with me. I’ve never had visions before that.”
“We…we met before. When I spilled my soda all over you.”
Arman smiled. “I figured you were just trying to meet me in a different kind of way.”
Fiona laughed. “Right. If I had known you were a vampire, I probably would have run the other way.”
Arman sighed. “I’m one of the good guys.”
“I had never known a vampire before.”
He raised his brows.
