The Vampire King's Toxic Consort (bxb)

Chapter 67 All Those Lost Years

Just like any child growing up with a single parent, Adrian was curious about his other parent. He asked Lucius about his "mom" when he was about six years old for the first time, and Lucius told him that he didn't have a mom. Instead, he had two dads, and his other dad was King of Eternia.

Then Adrian asked Lucius why his other dad was not with them, and Lucius told him that because the King of Eternia was very, very busy and had to work all the time rather than travel with them. However, Adrian remembered the look on Lucius's countenance. Lucius was smiling, but little Adrian could already sense the sadness under his father's cheery tone.

As he grew older and learned more hearsay stories and rumors about the twist-filled love story between his two dads, his curiosity grew even more rampant. Some stories were downright crazy and laughable, but who knew...Adrian had a devil for a godfather. Anything was possible...

Adrian could have just asked Lucius, as his dad always answers his questions. But Adrian knew Lucius didn't want to talk about Dorian, as merely mentioning the name gave him heartache.

"Will you just stop obsessing about King Dorian, who doesn't even know you exist?" Freya used to scold him after he asked Lucius how he rescued Dorian out of Celestine Palace. Lucius recounted the past in the most terse manner as if trying to get it over with as fast as possible, and then he found an excuse to leave the dining room before he finished his blood.

Adrian argued in his defense, "I just want to know my parents better, isn't that my right?"

"Talk about your vampire right with me one more time, and I will take them all away." Freya threatened peevishly, "Can't you see how much it upsets him? Do you want to hurt your father?"

"I didn't mean to!"

"Then stop asking those stupid questions and forget about your other dad! You have one dad, and that should be enough!"

And so, Adrian never asked another question about Dorian again.

Now, King Dorian stood before him, and Adrian hoped his voice didn't tremble from nervousness and excitement.

Dorian looked taller than he appeared on screen, and he was beautiful and graceful in a different way than Lucius. Yet they matched perfectly when they stood together, red and black, light and dark, the moon and the night.

Lucius gave him a reproachful look, seeing through his little act of sneaking up the tower with some random excuse to get a chance to meet Dorian in person.

However, the excuse he bore was legitimately an urgent matter.

"What's the urgent matter?" Lucius urged impatiently, crossing his arms, "You can say anything before King Dorian."

Adrian almost forgot the reason he was here in the first place. He said stutteringly, "Um...oh, right. The Churches just announced that the High Priest had another Epiphany, and God gave them the cure. They also blamed the Plague and the virus on you somehow, saying that if you had done your duty and actually delivered the Elder blood as God instructed, the vampires wouldn't have been able to develop a cure, and the plague wouldn't have been spread into Anthor. But instead, you lied to the Churches and drank the blood yourself and became the Devil's chosen. They also said the Plague was God's punishment for disobedience."

Lucius glanced at Dorian. The latter gave him an "I told you so" look.

"We need to find out if Julian actually had an Epiphany and if they truly have a cure. Are our people in Churches and Division Nine still safe? Did you receive any word from them recently?"

"Yes. The Churches and Division Nine implemented some pretty advanced shapeshifter-detecting measurements in their core circles, so our people have been staying around the lower hierarchy levels and haven't attempted to move in. No one has suspected them yet. We get two priests and two deacons in the Churches; one researcher, one hunter, and one guard in Division Nine."