Possessed hearts - стр. 2

But no one will ever know, for I give off nothing but glowing light. Blinding.

– Of course, what's this about? It's not every day a nephew turns three. Yes, yes, I'll see you there, Misha. No, I have everything magical. I'm going to Oslo in a week. I'm shooting, some Norwegian actress. I don't know the hell about her, I don't know her. – I had a glass of blood, because at that moment Misha was talking about her and Fredrik coming to our nephew Cedric Morgan's birthday party. – Will you be staying at Mariszka's? What about Uncle Cedric? Hm, you'd expect that. Finally coming out of his shell. Well, little Cedric's lucky to have such a crowd of relatives… Yes, yes, and everyone will carry him in their arms, it's such a blessing. Martin? Mscislav? Will they? Oh, that's marvellous.

Cedric Morgan is my nephew. The only son of my little sister Mariszka and her husband Markus. And this kid is surrounded by a bunch of relatives: two aunts and two uncles on his mother's side, and on his father's side he had an uncle, Cedric, who gave little Cedric his name. The Morgans Sr. moved to St. Petersburg three years ago. I know that there was a bad story in the Morgan family and that Cedric Sr. prefers to live away from his family and now lives in Norway, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. But I don't know what exactly caused the rift. I think he was just tired, though. Cedric has always been strange – he doesn't like parties, big gatherings, gatherings in general. Every time I saw him among the other vampires, his face was a look of utter bewilderment, as if he had no idea how he'd got here or why. The last time I'd seen him was at Mariszka's wedding. I confess that he was so attractive in his austere suit that I even had a thought of having an affair with him. It didn't happen.

But that day changed my life forever.

Fredrik Haraldson. My former lover, and for eight years the husband of my younger sister Misha. She married him when she was nineteen. Nineteen! When I found out they were married, I was speechless for a minute. Maybe it's a good thing they got married so early. Fredrik is the one who can keep my hot-tempered little sister in line. And they love each other. The lucky ones. Despite the fact that Fredrik and I were once lovers, we have a pretty tolerable relationship. Tolerable because he's too calm. Cold. He said I was vulgar. Luckily, I didn't fall in love with him and he didn't fall in love with me – we would have been a terrible couple. I could never get so lost in another vampire that I could forget about myself and my desires. But the last time I saw both of them was when Fredrik made me fly with him to Warsaw to tell Misha and our parents the truth that he wasn't the point of my sex life. The lovers made up and I flew out the very next day. They live in Stockholm now.

So, both families will be together at Cédric's birthday party. No, three, because Misha 's in the Haraldson clan now. We'll be celebrating the big event with a close family circle. I can just picture us sitting in the huge but rather cosy Morgan living room, drinking blood, chatting like cultured people and watching little Cedric run from wall to wall, and then everyone taking turns squeezing and kissing him on the cheeks. Boring.