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Brian’s POV
I watch him go and get dressed myself. When I come out I see Liam and Cody carrying Justin out of Kevin’s room. I quickly hide and wait for them to be gone. I walk to Kevin’s room where he’s crying over Max body. I pull Kevin to me and kiss his forehead. Maximilian still hasn’t woken up since Zeke tried to kill Justin. I don’t know if that he ever will.
“Daddy!” he wails.
“It’s going to be okay, childe,” I tell him.
I pick Max from the floor and place him on the bed. I frown at the blood on his chest. “Did you hurt him?”
“The holy man,” Kevin mutters. “Bad man.”
I nod and kiss Max’s right temple. “It’s going to be okay, childe.”
“Boom!” Kevin whisper as he touches my arm.
I turn around to look at him with an arch brow. Then it happens, I hear the explosion as if it was happening right there in the room. I hear my children screaming in pain. Those fucking bastards are going to pay!
“You stay here,” I tell him.
I exit Kevin’s room to see what the fuck is going on. I wasn’t expecting this. I knew Marcus and his kids were coming but there are too many. I know they are not with Marcus. I don’t like it. They are familiar faces…no, not faces…blood. I know their blood but it doesn’t make sense. The blood is old. They are strong and I know we won’t survive this. I look at my watch and growl. They were supposed to be here by now.
“Daddy!” Kevin says behind me.
“Go to your room,” I hiss.
“No,” he says and jumps on me knocking me back.
I’m about to hit him when he starts grunting.
“Protect daddy,” he whispers.
I see that he’s been hit and the bullet is burning him. Fuck! It must be poisoned. I quickly get him up and get us into the study because is the closest room. I dig the bullet out and start sucking his blood from the wound. I spit it all and keep doing the same for a while. Kevin looks so scared. I won’t let him die.
“Okay,” Kevin mutters.
I arch a brow wondering if that means he doesn’t have the poison in his system. He looks at me and gasps as he looks into my eyes.
“No pretty!” he accuses.
“Come here,” I tell him. “Drink from me childe.”
“Daddy,” Kevin whispers as a tear comes out. “My pretty.”
“I know, Kevin,” I tell him. “He’s safe.”
Kevin nods and then feeds from me like I told him. I play with his blond hair while he does until the doors open and Marcus comes inside with a smile.
“Daddy sad,” Kevin mutters when he pulls back.
I get up slowly and stare at Marcus waiting to see what he’s going to do.
“How touching,” Marcus says and glares.
“Bad, bad, bad, bad boy,” Kevin yells as he points at Marcus. “Bad boy.”
Marcus laughs. “You’re pathetic Kevin.”
Kevin frowns and gets up. He squares his shoulders. “Fuck you,” he hisses.
I smile at him and kiss him on the cheek. That’s my boy. I look up at Marcus and hiss towards him. He looks around the study and smirks. He’s probably imagining that this will be his. The fucking bastard! I can’t wait to start hurting him. And he will suffer.
“We have to talk,” Marcus tells me.
“No shit,” I say and walk over to my desk.
“Yeah,” Marcus says smiling. “Enjoy this place while you can.”
I look at my watch. They were supposed to be here ten minutes ago. What is taking them so long? I can hear my family screaming in agony. Jesus, where the fuck are they?
The door to the study opens and inside steps a figure with a dark cloak. She reveals her face to me and I smile at her. This is truly a fucking surprise, not. I knew the vampires outside felt familiar. They are family.
“Do you know who this is?” Marcus asks.
I know. She’s Cassandra’s sister. She told me once that she would find the way to take revenge on me and then disappeared. I guess this is what she had in mind. I smile at her.
“Of course he knows me,” Anastasia says. “Hello Brian.”
“Hello witch,” I tell her.
“Oh Brian,” she says and laughs. “You never change, do you?”
“I try not to screw with a good thing,” I answer.
“You think you’re so high and mighty,” Marcus spits. “She’s here to end you.”
“No, no, no!” Kevin yells. “Not enough!” he yells as he points at her. “Not enough. Not created to end him. Not you!”
I laugh at that. “She can’t take me,” I tell him.
“She’s older than you,” Marcus points out but I hear the fear in his voice after Kevin’s revelation.
“Marcus you’re so stupid,” I tell him. “She’s just using you.”
“That’s not true,” Marcus informs me. “We are partners.”
“You sure are…for as long as you live,” I tell him. “You really are stupid.”
“Enough!” Anastasia yells as she pulls out her sword.
“Here they are!” Kevin yells and laughs.
I feel them too. I smirk at them. “You thought you could come into my house and do whatever you wanted? Anastasia, I’m a master vampire and I didn’t get here out sheer luck.”
“Power within,” Kevin mutters.
I stand up. “You will pay for this,” I tell them. “Both of you.”
Anastasia frowns. “Tell them to stop.”
“What’s going on?” Marcus asks.
“That pain you’re feeling,” I tell him smiling. “Those are your kids getting killed!”
I won’t stop it. I want her children suffering like she did to my own. There is no stopping this.
“You will stop it, Brian,” Marcus tells me. “You see I have something you might want.”
“I don’t think so,” I tell him. “Surrender to me Anastasia.”
She glares at me.
“They are stronger than yours and there are many more,” I warn her. “You know it. You can feel it.”
“I have Justin, Brian!” Marcus yells.
I smile and sit down again. “Do you really?”
Marcus frowns. “Yeah!” he yells.
I can hear the doubt in his voice and I laugh. Kevin comes towards me and smiles. Then he turns to Marcus and hisses.
“Shit!” Anastasia yells as she looks at me. “You knew about this.”
“Of course I did,” I let her know.
“How?” Marcus asks. “How the hell did you know?”
“Cody told me,” I tell him. “He’s loyal, unlike you.”
“He hates you,” Marcus shouts with all his might.
“No,” I say shaking my head. “I thought I lost him. He’s very special you know…to me and Justin.”
Anastasia turns to look at Marcus. “You were using Cody’s help?!”
“Yeah,” Marcus tells her.
“Do you even know who Cody is?!” she asks filled with anger.
Good, she lost it. She’s not in control here. I am.
“One of Brian’s childe,” Marcus mutters. “But…”
“No!” She yells. “Cody would never turn on them. He’s their kid!”
“So what?” Marcus asks.
“You have no idea what’s going on, do you?” Anastasia asks. “You fucking asshole!”
Marcus glares at her.
“Cody has two marks on him. They turned him together! They gave him to drink together and they killed him together!” she shouts very loudly.
Marcus frowns and turns to look at me.
“They have given him everything you can imagine. They spoiled him to no end. He could get away with anything! That boy is theirs and he would do anything to protect his fathers,” she yells. “You stupid ignorant asshole!”
Kevin giggles at that.
“Ahhh!” Anastasia yells as she jumps towards me with her sword in hand.
She manages to push me back on the chair. She’s on top of me punching me as hard as she can. I turn us around and hit her hard. I get up and grab her by an arm before I throw her flying across the room.
“No!” Kevin chokes out.
When I look towards him Marcus is gripping him by the neck. I jump towards them and punch Marcus on the chest. He falls back and growls.
“I’m gong to kill you!” Anastasia yells.
The doors open and Cross comes inside with a smirk plastered on his face. “It looks like you might need my help,” as soon as he’s done talking he throws a sword at me. I pick it up and go after Anastasia.
I push Kevin out of the way as she swings her sword at me. I push her back and smirk. She’s good, but she’s not that good. She is fast but that’s not going to help her in the least. The best thing she could have done was run but now I’m not letting her. I grab her by the neck and bite her. She cuts me on the chest and I let go of her. I smile and she charges at me.
I hit her hard on the face making her stop on her tracks. I cut her face and kick her on the stomach. She falls on her knees and I kick the sword away from her. I grab her by the neck and smile.
“You know how easy it was to kill her,” I tell her and smirk.
“I’m going to kill you,” she grunts.
I laugh at that. “She was smiling at me. She thought I was her good little submissive boy. She loved when I fuck her hard and fast. I was doing just that…telling her how good it was.”
“Stop!” Anastasia yelled.
“Then I killed her,” Brian told her.
“Let me go,” she tells me as she scratches my wrists and arms trying to get away from me.
I push her down and then with one swift move I take her head off. I turn around and see that Cross is holding Marcus down. I go towards Kevin and pick him up in my arms.
“Daddy,” Kevin mutters. “My Maxi.”
“Go to him,” I tell him.
Kevin nods and leaves us.
“Should I kill him?” Cross asks.
“No,” I say. “Marcus is going to get a taste of my wrath.”
I walk over to them and grin. “Marcus, Marcus, Marcus.”
He tries to fight Cross off but it’s not happening.
“Take him to the basement,” I tell Cross. “And thanks for your help.”
“No need,” Cross tells me. “You’ve always been there for me, Brain. I’m happy that I can return the favor.”
I smirk and look back as Derek enters the study. He’s covered in blood and I know he’s hurt. I go to him quickly and embrace him. I push his face to my neck.
“Drink childe,” I tell him.
He buries his fang in me and sucks my life into him. I close my eyes and caress the back of his head.
“I want you to go and check on everyone,” I whisper.
Derek nods.
“Move it,” Cross hisses as he takes Marcus out of the study.
I go outside as well finishing off the assholes that invaded my home and helping my injured kids. Derek comes to me after a while and tells me how many have died and how many are injured. He tells me that they got to Jacob and that he’s dead.
“He was trying to tell me something about Justin,” Derek said. “But he was gone before he could finish.”
“What did he say?” I ask him.
“Something about lock and key,” Derek tells me and shrugs.
“Yeah, that makes sense,” I say shaking my head.
“The demon and his cow are still alive,” Derek informs me.
I nod. “Get everyone who is up to it to clean this place. Have you found Susan?”
Derek shakes his head.
“You’re in charge right now,” I tell him. “Go.”
“Brian,” Sebastian says as he comes inside the house. “This is some party.”
I smirk at him. “You got everyone out there then?”
“I think we did,” Sebastian tells me as he cleans his sword with the end of his shirt. “You know, we need to talk.”
“Take that bastard!” I hear Cross screaming from the second floor.
We both look up and then at each other before we laugh.
“My boy is having so much fun,” he whispers.
I smirk at him. “Cross always has fun when he’s killing something.”
“No doubt,” Sebastian tells me.
“Thanks,” I say.
Sebastian nods and comes closer to me. “We really need to talk.”
“What?” I ask.
“It’s about Justin,” he whispers.
I frown and he has my full attention. “Outside.”
We walk out and I see that there is as much blood out here. There are still some corpses around and piles of ashes. The longer you have live the quicker you will turn into ashes. We stop after a while everyone is pretty far away to hear what we have to say.
“I have heard a few things,” Sebastian whispers.
“Like what?” I ask him.
“They are talking about him being…different,” Sebastian relates.
“No one touches him,” I hiss.
“You have to find a way to protect him,” he tells me. “Make a pact or…”
“Or what?” I ask him.
“Cross and I went full circle,” Sebastian tells me.
“I can’t do it,” I tell him. “Not with him being like this. It would destroy us both!”
I couldn’t even do it before when Justin was okay. When he was mine and he loved me. I couldn’t chain him to me like that.
“It might be what saves you,” he says. “They can’t touch you, Brian. You have enough power and enough allies. But don’t think because of that they will stand back and let Justin destroy everything. That’s what they are talking about. That he’s some kind of curse against our race.”
I shake my head and cross my arms. This is not happening. This can’t be happening.
“I’m your friend, Brian,” Sebastian tells me. “I’m telling you this for your own good. I know it’s scary but it also strengthens you.”
“Or kill us both,” I whisper.
Not many vampires have dared go full circle. It’s something that not anyone has the guts to do. I know Sebastian and Cross did it because they wanted more power. That’s always a plus. But it’s risky and if I do this with Justin being the way he is it might destroy us. I really don’t know what to do.
“Also,” he whispers. “Jericho is planning something against you.”
“Damn it,” I hiss.
I know exactly what he is planning. He’s a stickler for the rules. He wants Justin dead for killing me. I can’t deal with this. I just can’t. I can’t.
“You know he wants your position,” Sebastian says. “The man is too greedy for his own good.”
I nod.
“The council will have a meeting by the end of the month and you’re not invited,” he tells me. “I don’t know what’s going to happen but I will keep you informed.”
“Who else stands behind me?” I ask him.
Sebastian shrugs. “You can count on Cross and Phillip and you’re girl.”
I smile at that, my beautiful Lindsay. I was so proud of her when she made it into the council.
“Do you think we can count on someone else?” I ask him.
“There are plenty that won’t go against you, Brian,” he tells me.
“Why the fuck now?” I ask him crossing my arms.
He laughs. “You’ve been to hell twice and come back,” he says. “Which means that it doesn’t matter how far down the line you are the devil takes care of his family.”
I growl at him.
“You should be proud of your heritage,” Sebastian tells me.
“We’re nothing to them,” I say. “He despises our race.”
“You weren’t even supposed to be like us, Brian,” he tells me. “We know that Cassandra turned you and your brother when she wasn’t allowed to even look at the two of you. She got obsessed with the both of you. Who knows who you would be working for right now if not for that?”
“Whatever,” I tell him. “Tell me what happens at that meeting. Then I’ll decide what I’ll do.”
He nods and walks away. I stay there trying to think of what I’m going to do. I close my eyes and think of Justin, my golden boy. What am I going to do? How can I protect him when I can’t even help him?
“Daddy!” Kevin’s screaming from the door of the house. “Daddy!”
“Fuck,” I whisper as I start walking towards him.
Anyone would think he was getting killed.
“I want pretty,” Kevin tells me. “Now please.”
I caress his face. It hurts so much not to have my boy with me. “It’s going to be okay, Kevin.”
“Sapphire,” Kevin mutters and shakes his head. “Too much!”
I wish I knew what he was telling me. I know it’s important. Everything he says is. There is always a meaning, a warning behind his words.
“Daddy,” he says and starts to cry. “Sapphire.”
I put my forehead against his. “I don’t know what you mean, Kevin.”
“Maxi,” He says. “Maxi’s good.”
“He’s up?” I ask him.
He smiles brightly at me and nods. “My Maxi.”
“That’s good,” I tell him.
“Justin,” Kevin whispers.
“He’s okay,” I assure him.
Kevin shakes his head. “Sapphire and a flower.”
“Is it bad?” I ask him.
Kevin bites his lower lip and frowns. He looks up at the sky and hits his head. “I can’t…no stars.”
“It’s okay,” I assure him. “Come on. Go inside.”
“Silver,” he whispers suddenly. “Silver knows.”
This is why he stopped me from killing him. I smile and kiss him hard. “You’re the best boy daddy has.”
Kevin laughs and nods. “I know.”
“Go with Maxi,” I tell him.
“No,” Kevin says. “You. The Silver man.”
“Okay,” I say.
I take his hand and I make my way down to the basement. One way or another I’m going to find out what’s going to happen next. I hope that Justin is okay. The last thing I want is to put him in danger. Maybe I should call my father and ask him what’s going on. He might have the information that I’m so desperately seeking for.
I’ll try to explain more about the council in the next chapter. I know I’m just making a bigger mess and you guys are like oh well so now that we know everything that happened with Justin and Brian…or at least we have more clear answers; she comes and throws more confusing stuff at us. He, he, he. Sorry! I’ll post soon.
When they talk about FULL CIRCLE means that each person bears the stain. Justin is Brian’s mate but not the other way around. If Justin claims Brian as his mate and gives me the bite…they come full circle.
I know….I keep making stuff up but it’s fun!!! I hope you like it guys!!