Requital

CHAPTER 4

Tarkik

I had just gotten home when I heard my fathers voice call out to me. "Where have you been," he says "its late and you shouldnt stay out like this you need to be setting an example for our people and its young." Okay thats weird he seems upset but why Ive always stayed out late like this with my friends well with De anyway and he knows this. "Father I.." "Dont I wont hear excuses things will change around here and we have many things to discuss." I follow him into his study. Im nervous my father has never acted this way. Not unless I did something I shouldnt as a child. What did I do I dont recall anything. I sit across from him as the fire in here warms my bones. "With only a few days before you turn eighteen we have urgent things we must discuss, things I need to tell you." "Okay," I say "I need to tell you something I have learned as well." "Tarkik there are things about our bloodline you dont know about that Ive kept from you. Things that you have to know in order to do the right thing and eventually when I need you to take your rightful place you can. "Long ago many years before even your grandfather came to be our ancestors did something terrible which caused us to have a terrible fate. The night we all become a man we will have a curse cast upon us that is the most wicked of evil. A demon who craves the blood and soul of its truest mate. Atahsaia will wreak havoc upon claiming and stealing its mates life force. It will speak to you taunt you and even take hold once in a while. If you ever find your mate they will never be safe as long as you are around them. You cant let it take hold. Ive lied to you your mother and I arent true mates but I love her with everything. When I discovered my mate when I was around your age I sent her and her family far away from our lands. You see our ancestors killed their fated mate because she was Et In , a succubus demon and all they had seen was disgust. When her mother found out she cast a curse upon our bloodline. Those born of man will crave the blood of their fated. Of course they tried everything to break it but to no avail." Im speechless I dont know what to say. Im confused I know in my heart De is my beloved. Does that mean I have to send her away, she has no one. Nothing, not anywhere to go. I can't tell father he will send her away knowing she won't listen. Then he will do worse, banish her. I can keep my distance I can make something up. I dont want to hurt her, but it must be done. I love her I wont let any harm come to her even if it is I who seeks to harm her. I sit up straight with determination I say "I will do what is right by our people I will not let them down." I will not let her down.