Big congrats to @thedawningofthehour for completing your second massive book in The Dawning of the Hour series!!! This is a scene from Chapter 39 of Third From the Son, and I could scream about more, but Im scared to say any spoilers from the very last chapter! THAT ENDING!!!!
I can’t wait for book three, but for now Fai, take you a well deserved break!✨
“Dad, please! We can’t have this tension at the wedding! What will Lou and Celene think?”
“I don’t care what that mongrel and his bitch think...”
“Daddy! They were your friends once! Mum’s friends! Soon they’ll be family!”
“They’re not my family, I buried my family ten years ago!”
“No dad, your daughter is standing right here, your son is sitting downstairs covering his little vampire ears trying to drown out his sister and father at each other’s throats!!!”
“Then go back to Moonwood Mill and your precious Howells! Leave me alone!”
“Fine, but Apollo is coming with me and Jared!”
“Over my dead body!”
“That’s kind of moot, isn’t it daddy? Your body is technically dead!”
“Yes it is, and you made sure it stayed that way didn’t you?”
“What...”
“You destroyed the formula for the cure!”
“With your permission, with the Sages’ permission, it was an agreement! With the new pact there was no need for it anymore!”
“I could have died with my Hallie, been at peace, but now I’m doomed to wander this fucking planet forever...alone!”
“If I’d known that a human couldn’t withstand a vampire pregnancy...I could have turned your mother back...”
“No dad, she didn’t want that! You know this!”
“You know nothing!”
“I KNOW MY MOTHER!!!”
“Daddy, she didn’t ever want to be a vampire again, she told us that many times! You tried over the years to get her to agree to let you turn her and she refused every single time! She wouldn’t have changed her mind, even if she knew that Apollo’s birth would kill her!”
“You just enjoy watching me suffer, you live to torment me! With your witch blood!”
“That you passed down to me, when you were human! Look dad, I’m taking Apollo and you won’t stop me!”
“Don’t test me, I am still President of the Vampire Council and Mayor of this town, I will not allow you to abduct a vampire from Forgotten Hollow!”
“He’s my brother, it’s not abduction. He’ll love Moonwood Mill! It’s not healthy for either of you, this situation! I didn’t give you the potion for this! You were just supposed to use it once to say your goodbyes, but no, you had the Beakers replicate it so you now have it on tap! It has to stop! Let mum go, please daddy!”
“Go to hell!”
“Right, that’s it! APOLLO??? Pack a bag, you’re coming with us!”
“I wish you had never been born!”
“You’re going to be sorry for that later daddy and you know it!”