Off to the side, Ace parked my car in the oversized parking lot. As we got out of the car, I saw Glenn coming out of the barn to the front of us.
"You made it in time!" he exclaimed, rather excited.
"What is it?"
"Your horse, Sky, is giving birth," Glenn announced, smiling to his ears.
"Today!" I jumped for joy until I realized Sky was also in danger. "Wait, what about the vampires and vampiresses who don't have full control over their instincts? They could attack her from being in the stress of labor."
"There's nothing to worry about because everyone who is too sensitive to blood has left the mansion until it's clear," Glenn confirmed, and I felt a huge relief. Thank goodness Kai wasn't home, or he'd be another one who would have to leave for a bit as well.
"I want to see her," I declared, making Glenn and Ace chuckle.
"Go unpack your stuff and eat dinner. I'll call you once she's pushing. You have plenty of time," Glenn instructed, and I decided to go ahead and do that.
About two hours later, Glenn texted me and said Sky was pushing. Alice and I rushed to the barn. We stood outside her stall to watch the miracle take place. Already inside her stall were Glenn and his two friends. They were ready to offer Sky any assistance in case she needed it. One of the first things we saw was the tiny head of the infant horse had started to crown to come out. Sky was snorting and neighing louder as her baby slid out and flopped onto the fresh hay that Glenn and his friends had raked inside her big stall.
"It's a girl!" Alice chippered as
Sky tried cleaning the little foal, but she still had one more baby to deliver.
Glenn didn't have much of a choice but to intervene so the foal wouldn't suffocate. He was quick to clean her airway while Sky snorted and squealed in the corner. For a veterinarian vampire, Glenn was excellent at what he performed, but he also had two of his friends helping him in case things took a dire turn for Sky. His aura was sublime in his confidence and calm. Even though, the foal was struggling for air, he knew what to do to help her.
"She's good," Glenn announced to us all. "She only needs to stand on her own."
The firstborn foal tried standing a few times, but her shaky legs kept making her tumble over.
"Is she going to make it?" I asked because the poor foal was struggling a lot.
"Being born in a barn, she is, but out in the wild, she likely wouldn't survive," Glenn replied as the second infant horse was crowning before the baby slid out onto the hay. This time, Glenn and his friends didn't need to do anything. For being a first-time mom, Sky knew exactly what to do. She cleaned the infant's airway as her firstborn foal finally got up onto her shaky legs.
"Two girls!" Glenn announced, smiling brightly.
Anybody could see, even for a vampire, he had such a passion for animals, which I can't say is the same for Kai. Everybody knows he detests animals like their walking plagues.
"They're precious!" Alice raved quite excitedly.
She and Glenn were perfectly fated together as destined mates. Regardless that she was only a fifteen-year-old girl, Glenn's care and love for Alice was indescribable. They were best friends as mates should be. I'd say their connection was comparable to the love that Jacob had for Bella's daughter in the Twilight series. Unlike what Kai failed to do with me, Glenn has been raising Alice since after she was born. Unfortunately, it is a fact that her family thinks she is dead, but it's the way it had to be. Glenn can't turn her family because none of the Covens are allowed to turn too many humans on the Brightest Blue Moon, which only occurs every thousand years.
Human-destined mates were always born sometime before the Brightest Blue Moon. Any vampires who have a female human mate will only have this one opportunity to transform their mates into vampiresses. The thought alone is beautiful, yet it's scary because if the vampires don't find their human mate in time or keep them alive until the arrival of the Brightest Blue Moon, the failed outcome would be devastating for any vampire to lose his mate forever.
"For twins, they have contrasting coat colors." Glenn's comment pulled me from my thoughts, and I peeked over. Both foals were nursing. The firstborn foal was entirely silver-gray with white spots all over her body. Then her tail and mane were white like the mother's. More like the mother, only on the opposite sides, the second-born foal's front body was silver-gray, and then the middle of her frame coiled white from down to her rear. Then her tail and mane were the color of a silver-white, which was interesting. Being a Mangalarga Marchador horse breed, they certainly had an arrangement of unique colors, and they were a very large breed.
"They are very remarkable and beautiful," I replied to Glenn, and he nodded his head with a smile.
As he was coming out of the stall with his two friends, Alice stated. "I'd love to own one!"
I giggled. "If Glenn allows you, you may have one of the foals. Being girls, they can always stay together with their mother, but that's up to your husband."
It might sound bizarre to most humans, but Glenn married Alice at ten. Although, they aren't romantically involved because she had to be twenty to consummate their marriage. Vampires never get romantically involved until their wives reach twenty. Right now, Glenn sees her as a teenage girl, and he doesn't take that away from her. She's allowed to be a teenager, so she goes to school like any ordinary teenage girl. Glenn's parents play the part of her parents, yet Glenn does have guardianship over her, so he can take her out of school if he needs to.
"You know I can never say no to you." Glenn smiled at Alice, and she beamed brighter.
"Can I have the silver-gray one with the white spots?" she sweetly asked me.
"If that's the one you want, then she's all yours," I confirmed, and Alice hugged me.
"Thank you, Victoria," she whispered loud enough for me to hear her soft sweet voice.