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Chapter One Hundred-Twenty-Eight- Emperor Franco Centauri Gervais - 137 yrs old
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Ana could get used to this existence. Not having to worry about who looked over her shoulder and made up a story about what she did that played fast and loose with the facts, if they used any. She oddly missed her sisters and mother. But she wondered how much of that came from missing her routine and the expected familiarity rather than actual love. No one, not even Tatiana, deserved to be attacked twice. But why would she want to work with the Blood Traitors? That Ana couldn’t understand. They were against everything that she lived for. Everything she’d been raised to do. Ana knew of all three daughters she was the one that would have been expected to join the Blood Traitors in some effort to rebel. Was that what Tatiana tried to do? Join them to rebel. Well, she couldn’t have made things worse for herself than doing that. If what the grapevine of gossip and news coming out of the palace, her father now carried o
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Thirty- Emperor Franco Centauri Gervais- 164 yrs old
One Month Later -Magnus Lioness stood before the empty throne of the emperor within the grand presentation room. The place was loud and packed with whispering people. He would never understand how much noise it could generate from so many people all whispering among themselves. It felt like it became amplified as the very whispers bounced off every ornate surface within the large room. As if, they had designed the space for the emperor to hear everything that everyone said within the space no matter where they stood.They all waited to see the emperor as he’d summoned them all to be here. Magnus received a personal summons and a guard to escort him back here. No mention of why the emperor wished to speak with him. Magnus thought he’d been summoned so that the emperor could praise his efforts. He’d been busy correcting everything his silly daughter insisted on enacting.The female took it upon herself to make friends with their enemies and put her nose in other species’ business. She’
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Thirty-One- George Atwood- 24 yrs old
George set the human back near where he’d found him. His mind missing his time with George and his wallet a little fuller. George fed from him and made sure the male human didn’t suffer unnecessarily for being his meal. The money wasn’t much, but the blood meant survival for Adriana and himself. Once the human was safely back among his kind, George moved on to do the same thing himself. He entered a small social club. There weren’t many of these and from the outside, it looked like a private men’s club. Which it was, for male vampires, that is. With a front where a few male humans could smoke, drink, read, and converse with each other. But there was an entirely different space for George’s kind where they could do the same thing. It all had to be done quietly. With prohibition in action until a few years ago. The idea of men drinking with each other kept most of these humans keen on the public, not being aware of what went on within these walls. Oth
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Two- George Atwood – 24 yrs old
“The Crown Princess actually tried to hold an audience while her father lay recovering from the poison. She didn’t truly mourn her mother or sister at all. During the audience, she had her guards force Princess Adriana to stand before her and tried to get her to incriminate herself in the poisoning attempt and murders. Now this is where it gets interested. Not only did Princess Adriana not incriminate herself, she accused Princess Tatiana. Now, after this, it all goes downhill for Princess Tatiana, and I think she will not recover from this when it gets out.” The accuracy of the rumours impressed George. He couldn’t help but wonder if Edger had something to do with them. It seemed the rumours fit together so well, like someone went around with a list of connected rumours and told different ones to various people to see which one’s stuck, which vampire couldn’t hold their tongue, and then sat back to watch the public learn of them and feed into the search for the truth. “Well, if you
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Three- George Atwood- 24 yrs old
George listened within the darkened private club. Two older vampires comparing notes about what they knew about the situation and how much they had it wrong.“That happened after someone left a dead cat within her private suites for her to find when she arrived at the NARC’s new facility. Clearly, someone was out to kill her before they attacked the rest of the family. Someone murdered her personal lady’s maid, and they left her body in the sun. Whoever did it left a hungry dog in her private offices. I suspect they framed her for all of this because she wouldn’t die. Now, someone else has come forward to say what? The emperor’s private secretary worked with Princess Adriana’s bodyguard. They what? Suspected the two worked together to formulate a plan to release Princess Adriana from the dungeons.” He made his tone and inflection match the inflammatory nature of his gossip mongering. “Really. That is what they are saying? The emperor’s secretary helping the renegade
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Four- George Atwood- 24 yrs old
“I swear right now I need a tally board and a journal to keep all of this straight. How do you keep up with this all and how have you found time to process all this information because, clearly, you’ve been researching these rumours?” That George had to agree with this vampire. The first vampire appeared to have gone through all of these rumours with a fine-tooth comb and pieced everything together. That wasn’t a simple thing to do in George’s estimation. He’d been struggling with this for months himself. But now, as he listened, George could hear the same things he’d come to find over the last months. Two separate people coming to the same conclusions and one with more information than the other gave him hope Ana might be able to return to vampiric society at some point along with him. “I agree with you. It’s taken me weeks to piece this together, and it still doesn’t fully fit together. I suspect there’s more information that the rumours don’t address right now.”
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter 135 & Chapter 136
Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Five- Emperor Franco Centauri Gervais- 164 yrs old Franco sat on his throne, finally back to his old self and feeling better because he threw caution finally to the wind. Of course, he found it trying to listen to their whining and excuses. But the more the people on his list spoke, the longer the list became as they revealed other guilty parties. He really didn’t care anymore, beyond he didn’t want to deal with Tatiana’s mess. So it connected many of her people to the Blood Traitor’s Network. All he could see there being any way that she wasn’t aware of their affiliation or had any other leaning herself. If her mind returned, she would have to face his questioning herself. They found enough things within her rooms to point to her involvement and told of how easily Blood Traitors could enter and exit her suite. Even with Franco’s suspicions were wrong, they came and went too easily from her private spaces to be anything l
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter 137- Ana Gervais- 20 yrs old
“I come bearing news. My dear.” Edith Wolversen entered the house with a big smile on her face and a bottle of blood infused wine and a bottle of wine. “I see. What is it that has you so happy?” Ana asked, delighted with seeing Edith so happy coming back from the latest council sitting. “For one, Magnus is gone for a while. As you know, they recalled him to the Vampiric court. Word came down through the Mage Ambassador and I shouldn’t know any of it. But the rumour mill is as strong as ever. Somehow the Mage Ambassador found out about, you’re fleeing the dungeon and going into hiding. He thought it important enough to have his mate slip me the message during a friendly visit. They’ve sent Magnus for some kind of medical treatment. Now we’re still waiting to hear something official from the Vampiric Empire.” Edith poured them both glasses of wine and handed Ana her glass and toasted. “I know it was disturbing to
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Please Note: If you hate the idea of it never happened that way or a cliffhanger ending. Please don’t read past Chapter 153. Ragnar, you can’t do this. I know the timeline is altered and I understand it could have devastating consequences. But we can’t go around using magic to change things back the way they should have been. I’m sure things have changed like this before, and you didn’t do anything then.” “It’s out of my hands. The Dragon Council is sitting right now discussing this issue. I’ve got no say in it beyond my report. If they feel everything that’s happened must be changed, then that’s what will happen. It’s a last resort. But Maximus Lioness isn’t the vampire who should have that name. Something went wrong there, and that’s just one problem with the timeline, as you call it, is wrong. Adriana and George shouldn’t be in the positions they are in. All the things that happened to Adriana weren’t supposed to happen. Her mother shouldn’t be h
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Fifty-Three- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
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Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Fifty-Two- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Four Days Later - Meeting About the Future Ana woke that evening to find Caun wasn’t beside her, which was odd. When she found him, which took some effort, he was in Tatiana’s night garden exploring it with several of their guards. She had to ask several people to track him down. “Caun, what’s the matter? Why are you here?” “Oh, good evening, love. I was speaking to your father and the attacks on Tatiana came up in our conversation. You were still asleep, and I didn’t want to interrupt you. While we were talking, your father said that no one could tell me how her attackers from the first incident entered here. Since we have several excellent investigators as our guards, I thought we’d take a look around to see if we could find something that could explain how, if not, who did this.”“Oh, good grief I can understand my father not asking me how she pulled this foolishness off, but Caun I’m surprised you didn’t ask me.” That had Caun
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Fifty-One- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Caun stood in line with the last of the guests filing through past him. He’d lost count of the hundreds of hands he shook. There were guards everywhere, and it made him uncomfortable, be he as George, who he still identified as, belonged with them. He kept his eye on his mate and marvelled at how she pretended not to be bored and uncomfortable with the many comments on her unique dress. The side-eye glances and the judgemental glares. It would be a difficult and busy evening. Caun hoped things would get better from here on out. That they’d be busy enough that she wouldn’t be able to brood or her the courtier’s opinion on anything.“So far, so well, this evening. Let’s see how far we can go with no scenes with any of the superficial fools who think they are powerful people.” He whispered this into Ana’s ear. It was a joke, because no matter what he said to Ana, she wouldn’t believe him. She now was a secretly powerful person. “We’ll see the night is sadly still young
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Fifty- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Evening of the Celebration of the Life Partner Pairing Adriana thought it was crazy to see the clothing laid out for Caun and her. She’d never seen Caun every in such regalia and her own unique sense of fashion so intricately woven into the more traditional garb of a formal event. Instead of a full-length gown with sashes, ruffles, and silk flowers enveloping it. Ana wore a full dress with a closed slit up the front of the gown. Beneath it, she wore a pair of trousers and boots. Her bodice was a beauty with false draping that allowed her to wear a short, cropped jacket that Matched Caun’s jacket only it was far shorter. It was feminine, but allowed her to show her rank as the Vampiric Ambassador and a soldier within her father’s military. Which pleased her greatly because it meant her skills weren’t a dirty secret or an embarrassment to her father. Ana’s lady’s maid didn’t have a comment or criticism about anything she assisted Ana
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Forty-Nine -Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Ana could see the sigh of relief at her words in the way her father relaxed and Eva, too. As if even this setting didn’t quite keep her father’s anxiety at bay and Eva somehow shared in it. Could she really be supporting this?Ana couldn’t see how this would be in her best interest to let this happen. If she even pretended to go along with it and encourage it, then Ana could, too. “I am relieved to hear you say this. Eva has been pressuring me to get this done before we celebrate anything because she doesn’t want there to be any miscommunication between us. I admit I agree with her. There’s been too many things keeping me from being fully in your life and now with most of that gone, I hope you will accept my attempts at rectifying that.” Her father stood up at saying this. “Come here. There’s one thing I’ve missed since you could talk.” Ana frowned because she wasn’t sure what he was speaking about and took a step back.
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Forty-Eight- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Ana couldn’t help it. When they entered the private well-lit moon garden of the Vampiric Emperor, she had to marvel at the artistry of it’s many curated garden paths. It was like a maze laid out before her and put Tatiana’s garden to shame. Here her father could find a little quiet solitude away from the prying eyes of his courtiers and guards alike and he guarded that privacy as if it were more precious than gold itself. She held onto Caun’s arm as they entered the space and stepped down toward the pathway Edger used to lead them to her father. The gravel that made up the surface of the path crunched softly under their feet as they followed. The sounds of night birds in the trees floated down to them as a few random lightning bugs flitted between the trees, and the space looked like someone had infused it with a sweet healing magic that was full of warmth and gentleness.“I have to say I like your father’s choice of private spaces. Between this and
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Forty-Seven- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Edger did return after they’d relaxed a little and changed. Ana still couldn’t help it. When she discovered the clothing, her father had commissioned for her, she’d stopped dead in her tracks in disbelief. Her new lady’s maid gave her a note written in her father’s handwriting which spoke volumes that he’d not dictated it to someone. He’d taken the time to write to her. Ana knew that wasn’t a normal relationship between child and parent, but they weren’t exactly normal people. [Adriana love, this note is to ensure you understand that situations of safety and security forced my hand to do and say things I never wanted to say to my daughter. You aren’t hidden or an embarrassment to me. I am relieved to have proven you are my daughter. Your mother tied my hands when it came to raising you, but I kept eyes on you at all times. Your life partner and you will find I’ve arranged for clothing for you in the tastes you are comfortable in, with a touch of nob
Passions Rising: A Forbidden Vampiric Love Story Chapter One Hundred Forty-Six- Adriana Gervais- 21 yrs old
Ana entered the suite first, followed by Caun and finally Edger. A smartly dressed couple stood there waiting for them. They weren’t in the royal livery, though they clearly wore a livery. It wasn’t unusual in the days before Adriana’s birth for other leaders to have their servants in their own livery. There were a few these days, but many were no longer used since the houses no longer existed. “The Emperor took it upon himself to outfit your servants in your personal livery. This is Jacque and Rachel. They will ace as your personal maid and valet.”Ana nodded at them in recognition. These were people her father hired for them, and that was fine. They knew enough not to say anything suspicious in front of them. The pair curtseyed and Ana dismissed them. “We’ll speak later. I’m sure you have plenty to keep you busy. Are my weapons going to be a problem for her Edger?”“No, Princess, she has received training to look after, maintain, and store your weapons appropriately should the need
