69novels Chapter 19
Chapter 19
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"...I understand." The boy put his arms around Carlisle's neck and pressed his cheek against it. "I will be careful."
"Any time."
"Anytime?" Edmund asked suspiciously.
"Our family of vampires is not the only one in this world, Edmund.—You can't imagine how delicious your blood smells among vampires.—Of course, it's even more so to me." Carlisle said slightly worried, " We went hunting the night before I took you home, but Jasper still found it a bit unbearable."
"……sorry."
"You don't need to apologize, Edmund. It wasn't your fault." Carlisle lightly rubbed the boy's cheek, motioning him to look up at him, "I just want to tell you that being with us is risky Yes. If something happens, I hope you will forgive us... and in any case, you can no longer tell others that we are vampires. - Vampires have vampire laws. If the identity is revealed, not only that Humans die, and so do we."
This thoughtful vampire patriarch selectively omitted the law that "if the human who knows the secret survives, he must be transformed into a vampire." —He didn't want to put pressure on the boy.
"I won't tell.—I won't kill you." Edmund replied immediately, "I want to be with you."
"Good boy." Carlisle smiled.
"...It's 'child' again." Edmond frowned and said, "When will you stop calling me 'child'?"
"You're a child to me.—Guess how many years I've lived?"
"About 150 years?" Edmund guessed a number at random.
"Including my 23 years as a human, a total of 364 years." Carlisle said softly, "Is this old enough for me to call you 'child' all the time?"
"364 years?! You were born in the 17th century?!" The boy stared wide-eyed at the British specialty live antiques in front of him, and was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. ——Facing such a young and handsome face, Edmund felt that he could not associate him with the word "17th century" at all.Oh, not even if he's a vampire.
"England in the seventeenth century.—under Cromwell," Carlyle added.
"...I'm going to call the British Museum, they've missed an artifact."
As soon as the voice fell, the phone at home rang.
"Go and pick it up, boy. Maybe someone from the British Museum is calling." Carlisle put the boy on the ground and watched the boy run over to pick up the receiver with a gentle face.
"Hello? I'm Edmund Pe—no, Edmund Cullen, may I—"
"Hey! Changed your name so soon, little guy! ——It really makes a difference when Carlisle comes forward!" Before Edmund could finish speaking, Emmett's voice rang out impatiently.
"Emmett? How do you know my phone number?" The boy glanced at Carlisle, who looked back at him with a smile on his face. It was obvious that he had heard what Emmett said.
"It doesn't matter, boy.—we've got a welcome party for you! If you want Esme's chicken tacos, hit Carlisle on the arm and tell him to drive you back!" And Emmett He quickly hung up the phone.
"..."
"Okay, Edmund, go get dressed." Carlisle looked at the mechanical watch on his wrist, "I don't want you to be hungry."
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When the black Mercedes Benz crossed the snow-covered mountains and parked in the open space in front of the house, Edmund was almost too intimidated by the gorgeous decoration to get out of the car.
"It's just a welcome party...why do you make it so...expensive?" The boy followed behind Carlisle and kept looking at the pine trees with ribbons and golden balls hanging around him, looking a little nervous.
"Because you are the first human to join the Karen family, and you are the youngest. We want to give you a surprise." Carlisle stepped forward and opened the glass door, "You go first, boy, today you are the protagonist."
So Edmund could only walk into the living room nervously.
His future family was waiting there, including Carlisle. —the young patriarch must have jumped in through the window while he was pacing in the hall.Oh, that scene must be hilarious.
It's a pity that in this situation, the boy can only feel nervous and helpless. ——What should he do next?Jump on them and hug them one by one?
"Greetings, my dear little brother." Edward's mind reading skills can always make him give the right prompt at the right time, "Then hug."
The boy froze.
Speech?Speech before these seven vampires shining like angels?What should be better? ——He had never experienced anything that required him to give a speech before, so Edward's reminder made him even more nervous.
"Anything is fine," Carlisle said softly.
"Don't worry about being polite." Alice blinked at him.
"Early death and early rebirth." Emmett's words caused Rosalie to cast him a dissatisfied stare.
"Okay!" The boy took a deep breath and cleared his throat. "To be honest, I never thought that I would become family with my best buddies and their best buddies' families."
Everyone laughed.
Carlisle smiled helplessly, Esme smiled indulgently, Emmett laughed at Edmund's expression, Rosalie laughed because she saw the lively expression of a child, Alice, Jasper and Edward is still laughing at the series of "good buddies" as he did when they first met.
"...You guys hurt people like this." The boy said aggrievedly, "I really didn't know that Carlisle had lived for so long at first."
Alice and Edward were still laughing, but luckily they covered their mouths.
"There are still many things you don't know, and we will teach you slowly." Jasper said softly.
"Thanks. Well—I'll try to be a good boy."
"Oh, you are already, dear." Esme stepped forward and picked Edmund up from the ground, and kissed him on the cheek.
The boy who had never been kissed before was stunned for half a second, and then buried his head in Esme's long hair with a whimper. —God knows how red his face has become.
"I think I need time to get used to it," Edmund muttered.He was currently in Carlisle's arms, constantly using the back of the latter's hand to cool his cheeks.
After learning that the boy had never been treated so intimately, the Cullen children (except for Jasper and the cold Rosalie) hugged and kissed him warmly. ——Edmund swears that both Edward and Emmett came together to tease him with a mentality of "seeing you shy makes us feel very happy".
Sure enough, Jasper and Carlisle are the only stable men in the family? !
Edmund glared at Edward and Emmett resentfully. ——He firmly believes that if he is not hiding in Carlisle's arms now, those two brothers who only bully him will definitely rush to tease him again.
"Okay, Edward, Emmett." Carlisle moved his hands away from Edmund's face. "Don't tease him, or I think he might really catch fire."
Edward shrugged his shoulders, pulled his brother and stepped aside consciously. ——If you disturb their "father and son" to communicate with each other, you will be struck by lightning.