The Vampire’s Servant novel Chapter 178

It was near dawn when we’d finally dealt with all the bodies and the survivors. Vampires were taken to Dennis’ club to recover for the day, unless they could get themselves home to their servants. Werewolves, fae, and witches were taken care of by their people.

In the end, we had the bodies of about forty-four hunters. That was right about what our figures said. Some we really had to guess at because there were pieces instead of a whole body.

Our casualties were pretty light. Three vampires, five werewolves, two witches, one troll, and about four goblins died in the fight. We were such an overwhelming force, that some of the hunters died before they even realized they were being attacked.

I walked over to Victor as he was sending off the last of the vampires. Marius had returned and given us an update on Echo when she was out of surgery. If not for the fact that we were in charge of the whole thing, I would have been right there waiting for her.

Victor and I were considered the leaders of this attack, even though I had less to do with the planning than my brother. I wasn’t going to abandon everyone. I even found an injured witch after I’d sent my whole party back with other injured people. He might not have been saved if not for me. It was a huge area to cover.

“Did your final count of vampires come out even?” I asked him.

“Yes. We have everyone. Marius is taking me home. Finn already left. Talia will head home after a cursory daylight search for the last few people who are missing.” Victor answered.

“Marius said Echo’s alive and in recovery at the hospital.” I told him.

“Thank the Goddess.” He sighed.

I laughed. “I’ve never heard you mention the Goddess before.”

“Honestly, I failed to recognize any deity after losing my family and being turned into a vampire. The Goddess gave me a new family. I have a new found appreciation for her.” Victor smiled slightly.

“Had you ever heard of Situs Inversus before?” I asked.

“Never. Thank goodness she had it, though. That must have been why she wasn’t as scared. I thought she was just confident in starting her second life and knew we’d be there for her.” He replied.

I nodded. “I was scared enough for all three of us. I didn’t want to lose her. Even if it was to being a vampire. I was going to have you turn me if she turned.”

“You want to be a vampire instead of a servant?” Victor asked.

“I don’t know. I just hated the idea of you both being dead all day and only having a few hours with her every night that I’d have to share with you.” I answered.

“You’d still have to share her if you were a vampire.” He chuckled.

“I never said I was thinking clearly.”

I patted him on the back and we headed toward the cars. I’d brought my truck with us, because of all the things we needed to pack up, and was instantly grateful. I could head straight to the pack lands.

“Drive safely and take care of our Echo. I’ll come as soon as it’s dark enough for me to leave the house.” Victor told me.

“Like she won’t decide she doesn’t need the hospital and come home on her own.” I laughed.

“You better work hard to convince her she does need it. Make sure she knows I’m coming to see her there. I expect her to be there when I arrive.” He said.

“I’ll make sure. This is the end of this, right? No more bad guys lurking, no more curses, no more things that want to kill us.” I asked.

“As far as I’m aware, this is it. The only task we have left to deal with, is your marriage to Echo.” Victor smiled.

“I had an idea about that, come talk with me in my truck, I don’t want anyone else to hear.” I said and led him to my truck.

In the end, he liked my idea. We would keep it a secret from Echo, so she could be surprised. I drove off, after watching Marius disappear with Victor, and headed for the pack hospital.

Once at the hospital, I found a parking spot and went in. I saw the admitting nurse and she sent me up to Echo’s room. I was nervous about going in.

What if she was awake and upset? No… I would have felt that. All I’d felt since we sent her off was Victor’s emotions and a brief confusion from Echo. Probably from when she first woke up. It felt like she was sleeping now.

I went into the room. Echo was in the bed, asleep. Harmony sat next to the bed, holding Echo’s hand. She looked up at me as I entered.

Giving her a slight smile, I pulled another chair up on the other side of Echo and held her other hand. I kissed her little fingers and rubbed the back of her hand against my cheek. I’d missed her while she’d been away.

I must have fallen asleep, because, the next thing I knew, someone was gently nudging me aside. I opened my eyes and saw a nurse adjusting the blood pressure cuff on Echo’s arm. Harmony was gone and Val had taken her place.

“Sorry, I just need to fix this. The doctor will be in shortly to give you an update.” The nurse said.

“Thank you.” I mumbled.

She squeezed my shoulder and left the room. Val looked about as tired as I felt. I was betting he hadn’t slept yet.

“Where’s Harmony?” I asked.

“I sent her to get a room in the pack house and sleep. She’ll be back in a couple hours.”

“Then you’ll sleep?” I asked.

“No. Not until Echo’s awake. I napped a little while you were out with the search party. I should be fine.” He replied.

I nodded and straightened up. I checked the clock on the wall. It was about eleven in the morning. That was around five hours of sleep for me.

The door to the room opened and Dr. Foster came in. I knew him from my rough and tumble pup days. I was pretty much a regular in the pack hospital.

“Grayson, good to see you as a visitor and not a patient.” He chuckled.

“Dr. Foster. This is Valor Gale. He’s Echo’s brother. I’m her mate.” I told him.

“Congratulations are in order on finding your mate. She’s a tough little thing. If twins weren’t a common occurrence in wolves, I wouldn’t have had much experience with Situs Inversus. Did either of you have any questions?” Dr. Foster asked.

“Is this something that will affect her health in any other way?” I asked.

“No. She can live a normal and healthy life with this condition. It’s pretty rare, but she doesn’t have any of the comorbidities that can come with it. Everything should be completely normal.” He answered. “As we do with any young women who need surgery, we did a pregnancy test for Echo. It came up negative so this injury and the surgery we did didn’t affect any growing pups.”

I was a little relieved. I knew there wasn’t a chance that she’d be pregnant, because Talia said she wouldn’t be able to have babies until she was closer to nineteen, but it was good to know there hadn’t been a fluke. Val cringed a little.

“Once Echo’s awake, we’ll check her wound again. Once we got the slivers out of her chest, though, she started healing just like a vampire or werewolf should. I expect that she’ll be ready to head home tonight. No strenuous activity for at least three days, and that does include mating.” Dr. Foster continued.

“That shouldn’t be a problem.” Val replied. “My sister’s mates are good men and they wouldn’t do anything like that until they knew she was healthy again.”

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