The Young Vampire Mate: The Airendell Chronicler Diaries - Book 1.5 by Audra Hart

Aideen doesn’t have Morna’s best interests at heart and I rather she didn’t have anything to do with her healthcare. 
    I also gather from Aideen’s scattered account of the meeting that it didn’t go well.  Aideen doesn’t sound at all impressed with her mother in this incarnation.  But she practically purrs in love and admiration when she speaks of her father.  Crap! Brigid was right.  Something is definitely way wrong with Aideen’s attitude toward her Daddy. I quickly get Aideen off of the phone and call Luca.
    “Luca, how did Morna take meeting Aideen?  Does she know who she is?”
    Luca sighs, “Breena, at first I think Morna thought I was fooling around on her with Aideen.”  I gasp at that but when Luca describes how Morna found them talking in the hallway in an embrace, I can sympathize with my sister.  If she didn’t immediately recognize Aideen as her daughter, all she would have seen was Luca with his arms around a beautiful woman.  It would have been a horrible shock for Morna.  I close my eyes as I imagine the pain she must have felt in that moment.  Not good!
    Luca goes on to explain how Morna finally recognized Aideen after fainting.  She remembered Aideen’s birth and dying, the first time.  “Man, that’s gotta suck.  I mean remembering your own death,” I say softly.
    “Morna has several of her own deaths to remember, thirteen in fact,” he says harshly.  I can hear the pain in his voice.  “Luca, none of this is your fault.  You have taken very good care of her throughout this whole nightmare, but even someone as powerful as you cannot stave off death from a mortal.”
    My brother in law laughs harshly.  It’s not a happy sound and it feels me with dread.  “If I would give Morna what she wants, I could stave off death for her…”  He lets the statement hang and I struggle to understand for a few seconds and then I gasp.
    “Oh shit!  She wants you to bite her doesn’t she?  She wants to become what you are so she can stay with you.”
    “Yes,” Luca answers softly.  “Breena, God help me, but part of me wants it too.  I don’t ever want to lose her again.  I can’t do it again.”  The pain I hear in my brother in law’s voice breaks my heart.
    “I know you don’t, Luca.  And to be honest, it might be the perfect solution,” I say quietly.
    “NO!” He growls into the phone.  “It would be wrong of me to make her into the same kind of monster that I am.  I won’t do this to my Morna!”
    I can’t help it, I have to laugh at that.  “Lucian Michaels, this world and all of the realms would be a better place if there were more like you.  I don’t care if you do crave human blood, you are still the same honorable, decent, loving man that you have always been.”
    “How do you know, Breena?  You haven’t laid eyes on me in centuries,” Luca growls.  “How the hell do you know what I am like?”
    I chuckle, “Lucian Michaels, do you forget who you are talking to?  I am the Chronicler of Airendell.  I see visions of you all of the time, my brother.  I know exactly what you are like.  So don’t even try to convince me that you are some blood thirsty beast who barely controls himself.  It really sucks that you became a vampire when you didn’t choose it and it sucks even worse that Morna and you have had to go through all of these cycles of her rebirth and dying… but through it all, your love for her, your dedication to the Guild and protecting mankind has never wavered once.”
    Luca falls silent on his end of the call so I sigh and say, “Look, brother, I only meant that if she was like you, she wouldn’t die again… she could beat the curse.”
    “But at what cost?” Luca demands harshly.
    I realize this is a very sore subject for Luca, so I move away from it.  “Look, bro, I saw Fionn.  His mother has been receiving visions about Morna again and she says that this is Morna’s final incarnation… that she regains her