Chapter 27: Dedication of a Parent

Life would have been much easier for Karen Desai if she had fallen in love with a mortal man and had a mortal child. Instead, at the young age of 16, Karen, also known as Katrina, fell head over heels in love with the mysterious Amar. Unknown to Amar, the child that resided in her womb somehow gave her prolonged life. She had died the mortal life during childbirth. However, she found herself awaking in a dark tomb. Karen chuckled lightly at the fact that she was glad she had died in the earlier centuries before embalming. What a mess that would've had turned out to be.

Karen was knowledgeable enough to stay hidden in order to protect her child. Daniel Desai was her only reason for existing.

Karen thought of her other child, Danny. She didn't expect to bare another son by another Desai, none the less. However, the child was weak and died at eleven. She would play along with Vikram and his ignorance. She would allow him to think that she thought Danny and Daniel were one in the same. She loved both her sons. But Daniel was the one that she was destined to protect. Danny would have been a great brother for Daniel. The irony of naming the brothers the same didn't pass by Karen. However, when Vikram insisted their son be named Danny after a relative, Karen allowed it. Even if it made her roll her eyes at the strangeness of having the younger brother named after the older.

Karen Desai was probably more knowledgeable than anyone as far as knowing the myths and the life her son had led. She knew that Laceana was killed by Tara Desai with poisons. She knew that her eleven year old Daniel had in return strangled Tara to death with a rope. She also knew that Tara was an immortal due to the wretched Damien. Damien was always a thorn to the purebreds. He envied their power. Karen knew that Daniel was the biggest threat to Damien's reign of terror.

In reality, she had an advantage to all of them. No one knew that Katrina lived. Karen was even special too. She wasn't exactly immortal. She was long life. Due to Daniel's unique blood intermingling in the womb with hers, she would live long. Very, very long. But she would die someday even if that day was unsure. Karen knew this because she aged from the sixteen year old girl. However, that aging came very slowly. After centuries, she claimed to be a forty year old woman, who looked in her thirties. It worked for the day and age of plastic surgery and cosmetics. The best part about it to Karen was that she could be Daniel's mother again.

"Do you always stalk widowed women?" Karen asked as she placed the white roses on Vikram's grave. "Or am I the only one to have that pleasure?"

Amar hadn't meant to make his presence known. However, he had seen the beautiful female and felt drawn to her. He smiled very reminescent of how Daniel did. "I'm sorry. You remind me of someone."

Karen turned around. She accomplished keeping her breathing from picking up. It was Amar, the man she had loved so long ago. "Should I be frightened? Or should I be honored?"

"I'd never harm you, My Lady." Amar stepped closer wanting to reach and touch her skin. She looked so much like Katrina, yet an older version.

Karen smiled softly. "Why do I find that true? or perhaps I am still so grief stricken I wouldn't mind the coldness of death?"

Amar took another step forward. "You remind me of a lover."

"We all have secrets to tell, Amar." Karen taunted. "Don't we?"

"You know me?" Amar stepped back slowly. "Are you one of those meant to bring harm to my son and me?"

Karen threw back her head with a haughty laugh. "You're much more foolish than you were in our youth, Amar." Karen straightened her shoulders and stared at her ex-lover. "I'd kill for Danny. I only reveal who I am now because he has tasted of his immortal beloved. The change is taking place. Lacey is craving Danny. We both know why?"

Amar pulled his cloak closer as he stepped up to Karen. He reached to touch the skin on her neck. "How do you breathe still, my dearest Katrina? I watched you die."

Karen held her hand up and shook her head back and forth. "Now is not the time for my petty existence to be questioned. We must rally as Danny's parents to protect him and his lady love. I can not fall to my own desires of wanting you again. Our son is of greater importance. Regina will be out to kill Lacey. However, she is nothing but a small thorn to us. It is that blasted Damien and his slut, Tara, who are the threats."

"Damien hides like a rat. He is too much of a coward to produce himself." Amar stated as he continued staring at Karen.

"He has many followers, Amar. Immortals that fear Danny will follow Damien. They will try to destroy the Desai family legend. Danny doesn't know of his own strength." Karen drew in a deep breath. "Lacey was a virgin when Daniel took from her blood. He took her blood before he took her body. You and I know what that means for him to take of a virgin witch's blood. He will transform soon."

"He will be unstoppable." Amar smiled confidently.

"If he is not killed before his five hundredth year." Karen reminded him. "That is why they are becoming desperate. That is why we , as his parents, must make sure we protect him now."

"I agree." Amar raked his hands through his graying black hair. "Our son is the best of us both, Katrina."

"He is." Karen took Amar's hand. "I think it is time to introduce Daniel to his real father. It is time to warn he and Lacey of their fates or their future."

Amar closed his eyes as he relished the warmth of Karen's hand in his. The feelings for her were still there as strong as the day when he spied her in the courtyard in London.

Amar picked up Karen's hand and kissed it gently. "I have loved before you. I have loved after you. But I never loved as strongly as I loved you."

Note: I wanted to do a Dacey filled update but I needed to get Karen's and Amar's back story so the future updates will make sense.