Page 4 of I Will Make You Mine
“We’ll have our day, I’m sure,” Josef said, pulling his suit jacket back on.
Deacon grinned, flashing fangs as he picked his suit jacket up from the floor. “I’ll be in touch,” he said, then gestured for his wolves to follow him. His pack released the humans they’d been holding and left with their Alpha.
“Pompous ass,” Josef fussed. “What are your plans for them, Théoden?” he asked.
“Well, my son wanted these two.” Théoden pointed at Dominic and Delilah, which was true. “These other two, why don’t you hunt them for your mating celebration? My gift to you.”
“No, please don’t,” Zach begged.
“Zach, don’t give them what they want. They want us to beg for our lives. Fuck them,” Dominic said as defiantly as ever.
Théoden tossed me another glance and this time, he was smiling. “Are you sure you want to deal with him? Are you sure Delilah means as much to him as your mother did to you?”
“Your mother?” Dominic looked at me, confusion written all over his face in his frown and wrinkled brow.
Théoden turned to him. “Ahh, yes… Dante’s mother is alive and well. Didn’t he tell you?”
“No,” Dominic said.
“Poor thing, you thought he was as pathetic as you are,” Théoden taunted. “Both sets of your parents slaughtered as they were meant to be. Humans are cattle to us.”
“Please, Sire,” I interjected. Seeing the look of betrayal on Dominic’s face was hard for me. Truth was, when I’d met him, I didn’t know my mother was alive and she didn’t know I was, either. My father had taken me. He wanted to raise me as pack, but was killed, and I was left abandoned. I learned later on, my mother had searched for me, but had to flee the werewolf territories because she was being hunted by Deacon’s pack. At least, that was the story as it had been told to me, from what I could remember.
The safest place for her was Celestial Gardens, and when I discovered that was where she’d been living, I wanted her to stay there. But I was older then, nineteen and well into being a rebel, so there was no way I could have joined her. She was safe until Théoden broke down my walls and discovered my secret. In retrospect, Théoden had done me a favor by bringing my mom to me. Now, we could finally be together as a family.
Dominic had been my only family up until that point, and he remained my family to this day. Only now, I was going to make sure my blood ran through him, binding us together forever. My gift to him, whether he wanted it or not. Once he realized how much better his life would be, how much pleasure he’d have, he’d get over beingembraced, just like I had. I was sure of it. If not, well, it wasn’t going to stop me one way or the other.
“That’s good to know,” Théoden said, having read my thoughts. “Take them, you and Josef go home. You need to start the mating ritual. I’m going to clean out their little rebel nest.”
“No! You son of a bitch!” Dominic screamed and tried to run towards Théoden.
I advanced on him, grabbing him by his hair and slamming him, face-first, to the floor.
He cried out and snarled at me. “Get off me, you backstabbing motherfucker!” he growled.
“He’ll be a handful,” Josef said, then he walked over to Delilah, pulling her to her feet. It was funny because she was actually taller than him by one inch, not that Josef gave a shit. He was powerful despite being under Théoden’s command, and I knew he would have kicked Deacon’s ass if they’d actually come to blows. I wanted to see it, too. I’d love to watch that bastard get brought down a peg or two.
Théoden looked at the other members of my old crew. “You two will follow them and obey their commands,” he stated, and I knew he was manipulating them with his vampire powers. I wanted to do the same to Dominic, but I also wanted to talk to him on the way back to Josef’s—correction—our home.
“Let’s go,” Josef said, and he dragged Delilah out of the sanguinista. Zach and the new kid whose name was David followed.
“So, you’re just gonna to let them kill us?” Dominic asked. His words were slightly distorted because I had his face pressed to the floor.
I leaned down, close to his ear. “I might save one for you to feed on as your first kill.”
“Monster!” he spat.
“I’m not the man you once knew, I’ll admit that. I’m better,” I told him, then I stood up and lifted him to his feet. “You’ll keep your mouth shut until I ask you a question from now on,” I said, putting my own mental whammy on his ass, lest he run his mouth the entire drive there. I knew my friend.
“Keep that up,” Théoden praised.
I smiled and led Dominic out of the Drain. The place was a blood pit, in my opinion, and only a broke ass vampire would eat there. They probably had a lot of diseased humans that got drained there. Nowhere near the high-class establishment of my Father’s sanguinista, Bliss. I pushed Dominic into the backseat of the limo and slid in next to him. I took a quick look around, noticing David and Zach weren’t there, but I could hear their breathing and heartbeats from the trunk. I wasn’t surprised Josef had put them there.
Delilah, of course, was right next to Ivan, who Théoden had commanded to wait in the car; and like a well-trained dog, he had. As for Delilah, she looked as beautiful as I remembered, but she was terrified. Honestly, I didn’t know what I’d do to her, but I knew just having her around would give Dominic something to think about. To him, she was like his little sister, even though I knew Delilah always wanted more from Dom. However, Dom’s libido was pretty much non-existent, and even if he did have one, I thought he preferred men.
“Does it bother you that Théoden is going to kill off your old crew?” Josef asked me as our limo drove off down the street.
I shrugged. “It was only a matter of time, really. I left that life behind when I accepted my new one.”
