Page 405 of Master of My Life

Richard laughed. “You’ve been distracted. You should know your men better than that.”

Chase frowned, rebuked. “You’re right.”

Richard sat down across from Chase. “They’re good men, Chase. They wouldn’t let you go into a

fight without them.”

“There’s not much they can do to help. I told Ethan that.”

“There may be more than you think. I don’t know what will happen this weekend, but we will

need every body we can get, supernatural abilities or not.”

“Do you know what they have planned?”

Richard chuckled. “No. They’re good at what they do and even I couldn’t learn anything about it.

But I trust them. As you do. They’ll be there when we need them.”

Alex and the others arrived the next morning and went immediately to the hotel. The German Elders,

Vlad, Richard, and Tom met in Richard’s room. Peter, Chase, Alex, and Tommy waited in Chase’s

room.

“I don’t understand why we can’t be in there while they make plans,” Chase muttered as he paced

the room.

Alex looked up from the ancient tome in his lap. “Because they are Elders and we are not.”

Tommy sighed from the window. “You get used to being left out.”

“Sometimes,” Alex added with a small smile.

“There are things we are not privy to yet,” Peter said. “Things we cannot know until we become

Elders.”

Chase growled in frustration. “That doesn’t make any sense. How are we supposed to learn if

we’re not there?”

“The idea is that other Elders will teach us when it is time,” Alex said. “If we as Sons know too

much, we could . . . dispatch our fathers and take over.”

Chase wheeled around. “They don’t trust us?”

Peter walked over and put his hand on Chase’s shoulder. “That is how Devin became Elder so

young. That is, we believe, how Vamar grew so powerful.”

“You have Immortal in you,” Chase said to Alex.

“I had it when I needed it. It was removed after Devin was defeated.”

Chase ran his hands through his hair. “I’m sick and tired of waiting. It’s all I’ve done for—for the

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