Golden Hue by Zachary Stone Read Free Book Online

mother is willing to be transformed, I'll bite her for you,” she said. “But please know that I have to be very careful about how many humans I allow to be turned into vampires. The general principle is one a year – but even that’s pushing it.”
     
    “Thank you Sarah,” I told her, before wrapping my arms around her. “I love you so much, mom.”
     
    “I love you too, son,” she said.
     
    “You know, I feel very blessed to be about to marry Cathy. However, I'm also more thankful than you realize to have a mother like you,” I said.
     
    Sarah began to cry.
     
    “What's wrong?” I asked.
     
    “I didn't know when or if I’d ever have a child,” she said. “It’s wonderful to have a son like you. Go talk to your mom,” she said. “Let me know if she wants to become a vampire.”
     
    I walked out of the small kitchen and headed back into the living room.
     
    Cathy was standing on the ceiling.
     
     

Chapter 6
     
     
    “Look at what your fiancée can do, Eli,” my mom said. “I can't get over it -- she’s amazing.”
     
    “Would you like to be able to do that?” I asked.
     
    She turned and looked at me.
     
    “Would you like to be able to walk on the ceiling?”
     
    “What do you mean?”
     
    “We could turn you into a vampire,” I said. “You’d be young again, and would be able to do things like Cathy is doing.”
     
    “What do you mean I could be young again?”
     
    I looked at the lines on her face and the bags under her eyes. The years hadn’t been kind to my mother.
     
    “You could be twenty years old again, forever,” I said. “You’d be free from any kind of disease. The pain in your leg would go away, you’d no longer have diabetes, and you’d be young and healthy again.”
     
    She said nothing, but appeared to be in deep thought.
     
    “Just think about it,” I told her. “You could do anything you wanted to do. It would open a whole new world for you.”
     
    “But what about my soul?” she said. “Aren't vampires damned creatures?”
     
    I took her hand in mine.
     
    “I don't believe I'm damned,” I said. “I don't believe you’d be either.”
     
    “But do you know for sure?” she said. “I don't want to one day have a stake driven though my heart and end up in hell.”
     
    I paused. I couldn’t say that I knew absolutely for sure, but I didn't want to tell her that I didn’t know.
     
    “All I can say is that I haven’t seen or heard anything to convince me that we’re damned,” I said. “I even went to church this morning with Sarah and Cathy; we didn't catch fire or anything.”
     
    Sarah came into the kitchen.
     
    “Emily, I was born a vampire, and I've been around many very old vampires. I've never once been told that I was destined to burn in hell,” she said. “If you’d move past what you’ve seen in movies, you’d realize the amazing gift you’re being offered.”
     
    My mother climbed out of the recliner and stood up.
     
    “I need time to think about this,” she said. “Can I have some time to make up my mind?”
     
    “Sure,” Sarah said. “We will be coming back this way in the next several days. Think it over, and take your time.”
     
    “Okay,” my mom said. “Thank you.”
     
    We sat in the living room and talked for a few minutes. My mother told Cathy and Sarah that she was glad to meet them. She also told Cathy that she was looking forward to being at the wedding.
     
    “We have to get moving,” Sarah said. “We need to get to the hotel by nightfall.”
     
    My mom looked at me. I knew what she was thinking.
     
    “Don't worry, Cathy and myself will have separate rooms,” I said.
     
    “Just remember, son, that you aren’t married yet. You better not be fooling around with her in some hotel room – you were raised better than that. If I hear that you’ve shacked up with her . . . ”
     
    “Don't worry,” Cathy said. “Eli has been a perfect gentleman.”
     
    “I'm sure he has been.