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“HIS FATHER? THERE’S no fucking way! And Martine, how are you not a wrinkled old woman by now!” I was livid and confused as I sat in the common room at the Deviant dorm with Martine and Greisen. The red haired girl had conveniently disappeared; I would have to investigate her later. Her appearance was strange and made my head spin, but for now it had to wait. I’d texted Aella, telling her I’d swing by for her in a while, that something had come up that needed my attention and she should just make herself at home. She sent me a pic of her tits in response. Oh, I think I may be in love! Never mind, I didn’t say that! Right now I needed to figure out what the Hell was going on and why they were trying to pin the paternity of that shitbag Greisen Calder on me.
Martine laughed as she sat back, stroking Greisen’s hair. “I wasn’t exactly honest with you that month in Cabo, sweetie. I was there as a last hurrah, before getting married to Leonas Calder. Time with the girls, and such. You were delectable. I couldn’t pass up fucking a Dragonborn, for Christ’s sake, could I? I just didn’t expect you to knock me up.”
“How do you know I did it?”
Greisen stood up, shaking his head, “This proof enough for ya, you fucker.” He cracked his neck and his wings unfurled. Large, black and green, with long talons and razor tips. My mouth hung open, I didn’t know what to say.
“I’m half Dragon, half Vampire, turned in utero apparently...” Greisen snarled. “It’s not ideal. I’m illegitimate and it’s going to come out when they test me for my seat in the Senate. Unless there is no other choice but me, I will not get it.”
“He needs this place; politics is the only thing he can do,” Martine purred. “Sig, you must help him. He is, after all, your flesh and blood. I know we should have told you sooner, but the truth is we didn’t know until his wings popped over the summer.”
“This only just happened?”
“I chose to come across to Vampire at eighteen, so it killed my metabolism. We think that’s why it took so long to manifest.”
I nodded, it made sense, wings came with maturity. I got mine in my late teens, when my body was strong enough to withstand them. The Vampire body slows to a crawl upon the turn, so he would not have matured like she should have, and what should have come in just a few years took decades instead.
“Does Leonas know?”
“Oh my God, of course not!” Martine answered, horrified. “I’d be dead if he found out I had been with someone besides him. Truly, he would end me. Sig, he must never find out.”
I nodded. “I won’t let anything happen to either of you. I promise.”
“You foreswear?” Greisen asked, raising his eyebrow. “No matter what may come, that you won’t let anyone harm either of us?”
“I foreswear that so long as I am fit to fight, no harm will come to either of you.” I had no idea that with those words I had sealed my fate and the fate of those I loved most.