The Hybrid Princess

CHAPTER SEVEN

The home is located out in the country on fifty acres. True to his word there are no gates, walls, or fences.

There are beautiful woods of pine trees, and fields of pecan trees, and peach trees, surrounding the property.

The drive to the house is black asphalt and has full grown magnolia trees up both sides, and is about a mile long. The drive leads into a huge garage that will hold at least four vehicles, but also leans to the right to make a circle in front of the home.

The yard is beautiful and lush green grass surrounded by many flower gardens. Steps lead up to a full length screened in front porch.

On the outside the home are two stories painted a pale yellow. Each window has a wild flower box under it. The front door is a dark green.

Once I walk into the front door, I am in an amazing open floor plan with high ceilings. There is no upstairs once inside. The outside was all fake!

There is a sitting room, a dining room, a kitchen with an island to sit at, as the table. The sitting room has a wood burning fireplace that takes up a wall. There is a thick wood mantle that has pictures on it of my grandmother, my mother, and a man I do not know.

Another wall has a built-in bookcase that has a small tv, the rest is filled up with books of all kinds! A back wall has one door on it. It opens up to a full bathroom. Sink, tub/shower, toilet. On the other side of the bathroom, a door leads to a simple bedroom that has everything a bedroom would.

What I am interested in is the Den. Clara is bouncing in my head to see the den.

The letter said it had a den. Which I finally find through a door in the back of a walk-in closet in the standard looking bedroom. A full size door opens to a set of stairs that go down into almost a carbon copy of my den in Sandersville.

It is painted in various shades of purple! Clara is sold. As far as she is concerned this is now her den.

There’s even the security center only it is much bigger with many more camera screens all labeled which camera where.

The other difference is the bed. It is a four poster bed with tapestries all around it like curtains. I would love to get the other bed here if I could, but I doubt that would be possible.

The huge walk-in closet is already full of clothes that are my size. Every type I could ever need. The back of the closet is a safe, not closed. A sticker label on it gives instructions on how to set my own code to the safe. When opened there are jewels of every kind in every setting!

There is a cage just like my other one. There are trees and plants everywhere. Inside is a real bed already made up with beautiful bedding.

The bathroom is exactly the same as in Sandersville. However, the cabinets are full of all different kinds of bath and shower products.

The linen closet is full of purple towels as big as I am. There’s one shelf that has bottles of no scent spray, and some other witchy looking things. There’s notes with those. I’ll check those out later. I go back upstairs.

Out a back door is a cement patio and an in-ground pool. With a waterfall covered in plants. All kinds of patio chairs and tables surround the pool.

I do think I will add an electric fence and gate around an area of the woods and the house area. I have grown used to the secure feeling that brings.

At this point I am almost positive that I will be moving here. After all the calls that I have been getting about when I was coming back, I no longer feel as if I have the freedom there that I thought I did.

However I have a few things there that I would want to pick up. So I have to figure out how to get in and out one more time.

When I go back in I see a box and letter on the dining room table.

I open the box and it is the new iPhone pro. The letter is from my grandfather welcoming me home. There’s a list of the caretakers he has hired. Yard guy, tree guy, pool guy, maid service. There are also security teams listed that he said to choose from, but I could pick any I wanted even if not on the list.

The phone is charged and has all his numbers in it.

I called his Atlanta number.

A young woman answers. Hello.

Hello may I speak to Gustav please.

One moment.

Josiphena!

Hello.

So glad you called me! May I come visit you?

Ahh sure. I am in the house you gave me.

Wonderful! I will be there very soon! Call ended.

About two hours later a big limousine with black windows pulls up. Several men in black suits all get out and stand by the door to the car. One opens it and a man gets out. He stands about 6’4” tall with wavy brown hair. His skin is tanned looking but pale also. He is not skinny but not muscular. He is wearing a fitted black suit with a white dress shirt. Black dress shoes. He is the man in the photos on the mantle. He quickly walks up to me with long strides. He takes off his sunglasses and has chestnut brown eyes with very thin red lines around the iris.

He reaches out his hand and I reach mine out he takes it and kisses the back!

Josie! I’ll call you that since I know now what you prefer!

Please call me grandfather.

Grandfather please come in.

Thank you my dear!

We go in and sit in the sitting room.

We just do some small talk. Trying to get to know each other. When I told him I had decided to stay here, but needed to make one more trip to the house, he told me the way to get there. The way that he and his men have been going to watch me.

There is a backcountry work road that goes up actually only about two miles from the back of my house. Baby Blue should have no problem getting to my back fence. If I were to time it correctly I could get to the gate just as the over lock turned off and go in. Once inside I get what I want and throw it over the back fence. Then once I get to the jeep I am good to go. If I feel I can not get back out I can just turn off the fence and cut a hole in the back. This works for me. I do not think I can get the bed out but the rest should not be a problem.

If I wear the no scent spray they will not smell me coming or going.

I told him how I did want to do more security here. As I thought, he knew I would, that’s why he added those numbers.

He seemed really nice. I asked him to tell me about vampire life.

Josie, I am an original made. I was made by one of the first vampires made by the Gods. I have seen the human race come and almost go several times. I have lived through several outings of vampires. I watched as the first wolves walked the earth. I have lived through vampire wars, wolf wars, human wars, and wars between all.

When I was first made I hated being a vampire! I was eighteen and I was in love. I would walk miles every day after work to go see a young lady. One day I was having a bad day. My work was hard, the walk was long. When I got to her home, her father said that she was going to wed another. He said that I was to go home and never come back. On the way home I was crying and saying how I did not want to live this life any longer. A young man approached and told me he had an answer to a much better life. He told me that I would also be able to take revenge. Everything he told me sounded so good at the time.

I agreed to let him change me. He did. I took my revenge and I killed my love's whole family, and the other man and his family. But not her. I tried to convince her to live with me as a vampire but of course she was horrified. When I came back the next night I found her dead.

My maker killed her. He had told me to leave no one behind. I had agreed but still left her. I know now why no one is to be left if revenge is sought. But back then I did not understand. I left him, heartbroken and lost, I had a hard time learning my way.

As time went by I continued to learn. I met and loved many times. Only a couple of times did I love enough to want to tell the person my secret.

The vampire life is gruesome and hard to most vampires. Only recently have humans made it look romantic. But I know that if vampires truly came out once again nothing would be better or different. We would be driven underground or killed almost completely once again.

I can tell you all the good and all the bad. But it is best for you to see how I have set up an underground to live hidden once again, because that would show the truth. It is best for me to show you how most vampires really live.

As my descendant you will be an upper level vampire and live better, and more hidden than most vampires. However, you are not just a vampire. You are also a wolf. It is already becoming clear how hidden you must be as a wolf. Imagine if you added immortality to your couple hundred years that you could live as your wolf. Could you stay hidden forever. You would want to stop hiding at some point but if you did, you would be killed. Would the wolf side of you be able to go underground and live for centuries, even if we made it as nice for you as we could?

Is your wolf truly content shifting and staying in that tiny cage every month? I do not think so. I think that is why you want to fence in some forest. I think it is so you can shift and run free finally as your wolf.

To see how your wolf feels I have set you up with an underground area here, just as I have for you at my underground sanctuary. I will walk with you through it to show you the other exit, the exit that you must always protect. After me no one at all can know about this place, even if they know you are a vampire, even if they themselves are a vampire. Would you like me to show you now before I leave?

Yes, please.

Come. He leads me down into my Den, Carla does not growl at him being here. She feels no threat.

In the back of the sauna, he swings the bench out toward himself and steps around. There is a hole going down, just barely big enough for me to fit through. I can feel Carla getting upset as I continue to climb down this ladder. Once down we are in a little room with a red door.

Grandfather says to go ahead and open the door. That he will once again have to be invited in as a separate spell the same as on my house is on this doorway. He says that when I shut this door it shuts the bench above to hide the hole. When I open this door the bench will move.

I push the door open and lights come on. Please come in grandfather.

Once he comes in I close the door. Inside is about the same as my home above. Only there are no other doors, and no windows. The bedroom and the bathroom have changed to match the Den. But the bedroom has an extra door where the cage is. Grandfather goes into the cage and opens the door and the door opens up to a huge room full of trees and plants. But it is still mud floor, walls, and ceiling. But it is an inside forest.

If you look closely in your cage up stairs you will find the same there. I want you to always be as safe as possible. If you can shift outside that is wonderful. But should you never be able to shift. I have built you these underground forests.

Now follow me. I will lead you to an exit outside your home. I follow him to my bathroom once again but this time he goes to the shower. In the back of the shower he pushes on some tiles and a small hole opens up. With Carla howling in my head I crawl behind him for what seems forever. He finally comes to a small area with a ladder. We climb up and out into real woods.

Carla is still whimpering in my head. Josie! This is still your land but you must never fence this off. This is in your back forties. About one acre from the edge of your land. He closes the lid. It is well hidden under a dead tree stump. You must protect this area. There is a camera and an alarm here.

Shift now and run with me back. We can keep up with each other that way. I know you have very strong speed.

I shift to Carla's delight. He looks at my wolf.

You are extremely beautiful as your wolf and if the world was perfect, you would never have to hide. Then he takes off.

Carla always runs just behind him. He leads the way back to the front of my new home.

He then tells me goodbye and leaves. I am still standing there as my wolf. I shift and go into my new home.

On the table is another box and envelope. When he left this I will never know.

Inside the envelope are maps of the world. On these maps are all the wolf packs, the vampire hives, all of his properties on top and under the ground.

There is also a list of what he has labeled as vampire approved witches and their locations that are marked in purple around the world. There is a list of wolf approved witches and they are marked with a green dot.

There is a book of vampire friendly establishments. Hotels, doctors, stores, and so on. There is also the same for wolf friendly establishments.

Another letter.

Josie, I leave these with you to help you wherever you go. I do hope you decide to stay in touch with me. However if you choose not too I never want you to ever feel alone. Even if you have not called in a hundred years I will take your call. Please keep these safe. There is information here that no other vampire or wolf has. Stay well my beloved granddaughter. Gustav

This man has set me free, freer than I have ever been.

In the box is about thirty pairs of contacts. Half brown and half blue. A note on top says: They Cover The Red Should It Ever Appear. Then I see another little box beside it.

Inside is what looks to be makeup. The note says: This is very thick to cover your birthmark.