Esme's lost daughter ( A tanya denali love story)

CH 2

(Elizabeth pov)
14 years later

1935

I was running around on my grandparents farm playing with our heard dog when my grandmother called me in for dinner so I ran inside to wash my hands before dinner

"Alright grandma I'm ready for dinner" I say as stand behind her eating a cookie I graved out of the jar

She jumped at my arrival as if she didn't expect me to be there " When did you get their child I swear you show up out of nowhere sometimes I ought to tie a bell on you and what are you doing eating a cookie we are just about to eat dinner" she say as she smiles at me

I just shrug at her and smile back then a question comes to mind I have always wanted to ask her " Grandma what was my mother like" I ask as we set down at the dinner table with my grandfather

she smiles at me " Your mother was a sweet and kind woman who would have loved you with all of her heart she would have taken amazing care of you sweet child" she says as my grandfather nods with her

" Then why did she leave me did I do something to make her mad" I asked with my head hung low my grandmother looked to be on the brink of tears as I asked this so I looked to my grandfather

" No sweet child your mother was tricked into believing you were dead so someone could try to run off with you She assumed you were gone and had nothing left in the world so in her heart broken state she jumped off a cliff But that was because she was distraught at the thought of losing you that she was not think straight it is nothing to do with you child she loved you even for the short time she had you I'm sure of it" he tells me as grandmother holds back her tears

I lower my head trying to hold tears of my own in at this new information "What did she look like do I look like her or do I look more like my father" I look up to them and ask

"You my dear girl looked just like your mother barely any of your father looks so if you ever wonder what your mother looks like just look in a mirror and she'll be right there within you if you ever want to see her I also have a few picturesyou can have as well" grandmother says as she strokes my cheek

After dinner my grandparents pull out different pictures and documents of my mother to show me They even gave me a newspaper clipping of the night my mother passed and what happened to me and the woman who tried to take me

Later that night after I say good night to my grandparents I lay in my bed and stared at the night sky just thinking of how it would be if my mother was the one here with me instead of my grandparents would anything be different would she love me unconditionally as they do

After a while I close my eyes and whisper to the night sky " Mother if you're out there watching me wherever you are just know I love you and I miss you everyday one day I hope we can be together"

That night as I sleep I dream of who I believe is my mother she is smiling at me laughing with me She seems proud of me  I just hope one day I can be who she wished me to be

Over the years my grandparents made sure I knew who my mother was they wouldn't let me forget and I didn't want to I was Elizabeth May Platt daughter of Esme Anne Platt

My grandmother said as I grew older I looked more and more like my mother each day as if I was a carbon copy of her with the little slight differences

A few months after I turned 16 my grandparents passed away one after the other after the funeral I sold the farm and bought a little place in some wood to store the few items I wished to keep but I also decided to do some traveling myself to see the world see what was out there what lies beyond Ohio

I would travel from place to place camping in little areas outside of towns I didn't have to worry about money much since I sold the farm But I did do odd jobs here and there to earn more

After I turned 20 I decided to explore outside of the United States I was somewhere in Canada it was a little past my 21st birthday when when I met this man named Laurent He seemed intrigued by me for some reason and it wasn't long before he showed me what he was and before I became what he was and joined his coven

Laurent and I became decent friends he was like an older brother teaching me everything I needed to know about being a vampire We were nomads traveling around wherever we want doing whatever we wanted enjoying what life we had

We later learned that I have a gift at least that is what Laurent called it I can teleport myself others or objects to wherever I wish It came in handy for traveling and when we fed

We traveled together from 1942 to  1995 with me stopping to check on my small place in Ohio every few years before we ran in to more nomads in that time me and Laurent became close he became my family my brother I would do anything to protect him just as he would me

He was just like my older sibling Always watching out for me making sure I'm not doing anything wrong We would bicker even fight every so often but what siblings don't He was my brother and I couldn't ask for a better one he was my family for all those years

Somewhere down the road we did run into and were recruited by 2 other nomads  Named Victoria and James It seemed they were a little On the wild side James enjoyed hunting He loved to hunt down anything for a ware wolf we killed in Siberia to the humans we fed on almost like it was a game to him

There was a few times Laurent had to convince me to stay because i was going to leave I grew tired of James and his sick and twisted ways I just wanted a carefree life not the life of an animal or a monster

We were both going to leave at one point But decided with James in his ways he would track us down and try to kill us if we did Though Laurent Didn't mind him or the woman Victoria as much as I did for Victoria she wasn't as bad as James so she was tolerable at points meaning I did try to get along with her as much as possible