Chapter 310 - Turning on the lights
"Let touch you to know if you are real or I am only imagining what my subconscious wants to see," said Donovan, but before he could raise his hand to touch the woman, Lilian beat him by placing her soft hand on his cheek.
For a mont, the Elder vampire closed his eyes, feeling the touch nothing less to precious drops of water that was being provided to a person in the hot desert. He opened his red eyes and looked at the woman.
"How is it possible?" He questioned her because he was curious to know how she was here. Breathing and living as if she had never left, that she had been existing all this while, and it was him who had failed to notice her.
Lilian smiled at him, which was tender and sweet. She said, "Our son ca to visit by my grave with Julie… and the girl left sothing behind without realizing what it was."
With her other hand, she pulled out the hairpin that had stones in them that Julie had earlier buried in the soil next to her grave. Donovan's eyebrows furrowed, and his eyes narrowed, "Those are the stars of stones, which…"
"Which are combined together to give life," Lilian completed his sentence. She looked down at the stones, where seven stones were supposed to be present, but there were only six of them there. The violet coloured stone was missing, leaving a tiny hollow space behind. "As expected from the famous Opaline La Fay."
Donovan placed his hand on Lilian's hand that was still on his face, and he brought it down while continuing to hold it without letting it go. There were tis when he had wished and dreamt of ways to make things better and not as worse as he had left her. And now that she was here, he didn't want her to disappear from his sight.
He had been with many won, but if there was anyone who had left a profound effect in his life, it was this woman. The mystery around her had often made him question, but then both of them had decided not to question each other beyond what happened in the walls of the inn.
Donovan didn't know if he loved her or not in the past because things back then were different, but for him to recklessly make a son with her… it only ant that he had lost himself in her. And he wouldn't mind getting lost in her all over again.
"I still turn a little speechless, when I realize you knew about witches and vampires from the very beginning," remarked Donovan, and Lilian looked up to et his eyes. "Did you have an idea of what I was?"
Lilian's eyes slightly lowered, and she nodded, "I sowhere did… It isn't every day we have n of high status, ordering everyone or coming for business in the town that I lived in which is poor."
Donovan softly chuckled. It seed like he had fallen for a woman who was resilient, who was smart and knew how to cover her true identity.
"You do not have to beat yourself over the things that have happened in the past. It was no one's fault, and I have never blad you for it," said Lilian, feeling Donovan squeeze her hand. "Our destiny had already been written and we had to follow it to et again here."
"You are right," Donovan agreed to her words. It didn't matter what had happened in the past anymore because, after everything, she was finally here. "You aren't planning to leave again, are you?"
Lilian shook her head, "I don't think so. Not anyti soon."
"I can do with the not anyti soon," the Elder vampire nodded, and he offered her a bright smile. "I believe Ro and Julie have gone out of Veteris to spend so ti alone as they haven't returned yet."
"It is fine. There's no hurry," replied Lilian, and they walked towards one of the benches and sat down under the velvety sky that carried stars in it.
Out of Veteris, and right outside the amusent park, Roman and Julie stood in front of the entrance where the gates had been closed. The lights had been turned off, leaving the place dark and without any crowd.
"Did they close this place?" asked Julie, rubbing her hands together as the weather was chilly.
"It was not supposed to be closed," replied Roman, and he looked around the place to see if they could find a security person there. But they didn't spot anyone.
"Maybe we can co tomorrow," suggested Julie, as they wouldn't be able to take any rides or eat anything.
"Let go and find the person in charge here. I am not leaving the place without completing our date here," remarked Roman, and he walked to the front before jumping on the other side of the gate and Julie's eyes widened.
"I don't think trespassing is a good idea," murmured Julie under her breath, which Roman heard quite clearly.
"When you have a vampire boyfriend next to you, you shouldn't worry about such things. It is very common to jump in places that are already closed or locked," said Roman, and before Julie could reply to him, she heard the sound of footsteps approaching not too far from where she was. For a mont, she beca worried by thinking it was the amusent authorities who had arrived at the place after catching them on the CCTVs.
But Julie was surprised when she saw lanie and Simon walking towards her.
"Well, hello there, Julie and Ro. I didn't know you two decided to shut down the amusent park," Simon joked on noticing the lack of light, as it wasn't really that late.
lanie smiled at Julie, quickly walking towards her friend and hugging her, "Thank God you are here, Julie. I was dragged here," she turned around and glared at Simon.
"You just didn't stop hovering over your mother and the last thing I needed was her pouncing on you," ca the casual words from Simon. "Also, you promised a date before we even turned into a couple."
"All the best for the rest of your life, lanie," Roman congratulated the human, and lanie nervously smiled, understanding that every friend of Simon knew exactly how he had a couple of screws loose in his head. Yet, it didn't stop her from liking him. She wondered if, over the ti, she had sowhere lost a few screws from her head after starting to speak to him.
"Thanks?" lanie replied with an unsure tone.
"I am glad everything worked out for good, l," Julie encouraged her friend because both lanie and Simon seed to have shared an obvious chemistry even though they used to argue in the past. "How is your mother's transformation going?"
"She's turned weak and aggressive," replied lanie with a frown on her face. "Elder Remy said it is normal and they would be depriving her from any blood intake until she cos to a more stable state. But that would also an that none of us can go near her. She's been on constant pain and I wish I could do sothing to reduce it."
"She will be just fine," Simon waved his hand, "Mother-in-law is strong and she will pull through."
lanie shook her head because though now it was alright, her mother often spiralled at the ntion of Simon being her future son-in-law. It was as if Simon enjoyed poking her mother and getting a reaction for his pure pleasure.
"Why is the amusent park closed? It isn't even Sunday," comnted Simon, and he walked towards the gate.
"Maybe it is a sign that we head back to the university and make sure everyone is well," muttered lanie under her breath.
Roman looked around the place before he opened the gate from the inside and said, "I guess with no one here, we can take a ride ourselves."
"And this is why we are best friends," said Simon in a matter of fact tone before he stepped inside the place by walking through the gates.
"I feel like we are going to end up eting the cops tonight," said lanie in a worried tone.
"Oh darling, you worry for nothing. If we have cops, all we have to do is compel them. Worse, I will carry you and run from here in speed," said Simon, and lanie sent him a glare.
lanie shook her head, murmuring sothing about how she was going to get into possible trouble as she made her way toward Simon.
Julie walked to where Roman was, and in ti, the vampires turned on the switchboard of the place, and soon music started to fill the area, and lights turned on. Roman wrapped his hand around Julie's hand and pulled her in the other direction so that he could have his own ti with her while Simon and lanie walked without holding hands.
"Did you bring your other girls here too?" lanie asked Simon with a curious look on her face.
"My other girls? In the future I plan to bring them of course. And you are welco to join us," Simon replied with a bright smile. lanie gave him a dry look. It took her a while before her cheeks turned pink on who the girls Simon was talking about.
"You are such a prankster," she rolled her eyes, making her way towards the ferris wheel. Simon moved quickly, and he opened the door for her,
"Milady."
Though she could perfectly get inside the cabin of the ferris wheel, lanie placed her hand on Simon's hand that waited for her and got inside to take a seat. Soon Simon joined her, sitting in front of her so that he could look at her. He noticed the gentle breeze sway her hair that she had let tied, pulling out the short hair.
lanie watched the cabins starting to move, and as they moved five spots upwards, she said, "Never did I think that I would co here when no one is around. Even with the music it is so quiet."
Simon replied to her, "And never did I think that I would be sitting on one of these with a girl I would actually like."
lanie cleared her throat, feeling his intense gaze even when she turned to look in the other direction and her cheeks burned, as they were all alone on this side of the amusent park.
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