Part V
Tina was speechless. How could Dracula do that? No, he would never! It´s a lie! "Of course! I nearly fell for that! I must say that you once had better jokes!"
But Anna didn´t return her smile. "But it´s no joke. I´m pregnant. Last night we..." She looked at the ground. She felt more than ashamed for what she had done. Tina shook her head. "No! You´re lying! You´re a liar! "With that she stormed out of the bathroom. She threw the door to Dracula´s study open and stormed inside, slamming it behind her.
"Is that true?", she yelled. Tina caught her breath. He just stared up at her. But this was the answer she hadn´t wanted to hear.
"How could you do that to me? Didn´t you think once about my feeling? Don´t you know how it hurts me? And what shall Selindra think about that when her aunt gets a child from you!"
Dracula stood up and walked over to her. "Do never doubt again that I don´t care for my daughter. You know how much I want children!"
"So you think that it´s good when your daughter knows that you have three wives instead of one! Do you think that´s good for her to grow up as one of a thousand children, wich are born from three different women?"
That was enough. Dracula slapped her right in her face. But he regretted it.
"You want it that way, huh?", Tina asked, "Then you can have it!"
She turned into her bat form and flew at her "husband". She pushed him against the table. Now he also transformed and pushed her off of him, throwing her at the ceiling. The two of them didn´t notice that Selindra was listening in front of the door. As she entered the study they still didn´t. From the doorway she watched the situation.
Dracula let his bride fall down to the floor and then picked her up by her hair. With a dangerous voice he hissed: "That I slept with Anna is no business of yours!" He threw her at the wall. "Pity that you had to find out!", he added and kicked her.
"Mommy!", Selindra cried and ran over to them. She grabbed her father´s arm and tried to keep him from hurting Tina. "Daddy! You must stop!"
But in his rage he did something that he would never do: He slapped his daughter. The child stumbled backwards and fell. She started crying loudly.
"Selindra!", Tina called and struggled to get herself freed. "You beat her!", she screamed at Dracula who was starting to calm down again. Sadly he looked at his bride and then over at his child. Not knowing what to do he left the room and the two girls alone. Tina crawled over to her daughter, taking her in her arms.
They sat there, both weeping until Anna found them.