“You’ll have to forgive me,” he said, frowning.
“I do, but he is my Sire.”
“A fact that I am constantly reminded of,” Josef snapped.
Okay, this was supposed to be a day of celebration. I’d been looking forward to this day. We already had the threat of an attack looming over us, I didn’t need Josef to be in a foul mood. “Listen, I’m going to check on Dominic, then I’ll meet you back outside for phase three, okay?”
He nodded. “Do you know what that entails?”
“I remember you telling me. I have to shift into my beast form.”
“Yes. Then the final phase will take place during the full moon. After we mate again, I think everyone will be ready to eat something,” Josef said, then he rose off the bed and left the room.
I made my way to the holding cell area in the basement of Josef’s… our mansion. I used my thumb print to unlock the doors. There were two wolf guards monitoring the area, and that was their job when wolves were being held in the cells. They nodded respectfully at me as I walked by, naked. I had no shame, shit, my body was a work of art. Didn’t really care if people stared. I walked up to Dominic’s cell. He was on his knees, legs spread, and hands bound behind his back. The collar around his neck kept him in that position as it was unyielding. The base of the collar was mounted to the floor by two titanium rods connected to it. There would be no wiggling for him.
He looked up at me, his eyes full of hatred. It was something I wasn’t used to, but I’d prepared myself for. He had been stripped naked and I got a chance to get a good look at his body. It was magnificent. No piercings, but the tattoo we had both gotten that said brothers in what we hoped were Japanese characters was prominent as ever on his right pec. I remembered joking about that after we’d gotten them. Like what if they said “assholes” instead. Hearing his laughter had always made me happy.
Looking at him now with a scowl on his face, it seemed like I’d never hear him laugh again. But if that was the price I had to pay to save his life and give him the gift I’d been given, so be it. He’d been shaved and his hair cut as I’d requested when I’d brought him in. The hairstyle was very stylish and flattering on him. Once he took on his vampire essence, he was going to drive people crazy. I mean, he was gorgeous. Brown hair and eyes, full lips, chiseled jawline, and cheekbones that made you pause and take notice. I wanted to preserve all of that with my blood.
“Come to gloat?” he asked me.
I didn’t answer him right away. Besides, I wasn’t standing there to gloat. I was just looking at him, thinking about how it would feel to fuck him. My brother. To feel my cock slide inside his tight ass and give him real pleasure. Sure, he didn’t like sex now, avoided it at all costs. To him, it was a tool to get things he actually wanted like food, supplies, and weapons. Not pleasure. He once told me the only time he’d experienced an orgasm was when he jerked himself off and, even then, he’d been underwhelmed. I wondered how his body would respond with my dragon and wolf blood running through it. Would he still be dead down there, or would his cock rise to the occasion?
My own cock started to stir between my legs as I thought about the possibility. Oh yeah, I hadn’t thought about fucking Dom before, but it was on my agenda now. Maybe I’d take turns fucking him and Josef. I smiled at the thought.
“Dante, please… let me go,” Dominic begged, which brought me out of my sexual fantasies.
“No, Dom. For one thing, I’d be punished for letting you go. If Deacon found out you’d been set free, he’d be looking for you. For another reason, well, I want to make you mine. I can’t wait to sink my fangs into you, tasting your life force for the first time, and drain you. You have no idea how intimate that is. I want to feel you give into my bite and I also want to feel you drain me as I give you new life. This was meant to be, fate has drawn us together. I’m not going to pass up this opportunity.”
“Fuck you, Dante!” he cursed.
“We will, don’t worry. Besides, Dominic… the crew you were riding out with…” I shrugged. “Well, they’re dead now. If you don’t believe me, I’ll be sure to show you the Vampire World video upload tomorrow. It was a fucking massacre, but that’s what happens to rebels, as you know.”
I watched as his facial expression went from hatred to sorrowful as he registered my words. His lips quivered with sadness and rage as he thought about the humans Théoden and my brothers had slaughtered. Tears poured from his eyes and dripped to the floor. His entire body seemed to tremble and he glared back up at me.
“I’ll kill you!” he snarled through tightly clenched teeth.
“No, you won’t. I’ll never allow that to happen. I won’t allow you to kill yourself either. What you will do is accept the life I’m going to give to you, Dominic. You will hunt and feed… you will enjoy feeding, too. You will control your own district as its new Lord, keeping the vampire agenda as your guidance. You may think I’m doing this to punish you, but I’m not. I’m doing this because I love you, Dominic. And I know what’s best for you, even if you don’t believe me.”
He began to laugh in a harsh tone, not the cheerful, sporty laugh I was used to. “You really did drink all the fucking Kool-Aid, didn’t you? You ate up every bullshit ass fucking rhetoric these monstrous sons of bitches fed you. I thought you were better than this, Dante. Smarter. You used to have morals…hell, you used to have fucking heart!”
“I still have all of those things. Only now, my morals are different, but I still love and I still care about you. I have high hopes for you, Dom. You’re a leader, and you’ll be able to apply those same skills in your new life, too. This is going to happen, you won’t be able to talk me out of it. I just wanted you to know why. I’ll have them feed you—”
“Like I’ll eat that swill,” he shot back.
“Oh, you will. I’ll make sure you eat every drop of food so you’re nice and healthy looking when Iembraceyou. I’ll see you later,” I said, then walked away to the sound of him cursing me into the pits of hell and a whole bunch of other places I didn’t give a shit about. I was looking forward to the future. When I got back outside, I saw Josef eating a sandwich. I guess with all of his talk about food, he was hungry and had worked up an appetite when we’d had sex.
CHAPTER FOUR
ELLIOT
“How is he?” I asked Deacon after he entered his study.
Deacon locked the door behind himself and walked over to a leather chair, taking a seat. Chandler was sitting in the other chair and I was lounging comfortably on the sofa, legs on the coffee table, feet crossed at the ankles.
“He’s fine now,” Deacon informed me.
I could tell by the fresh scent of soap and cum on him that they’d been fucking upstairs. I expected as much and considering how long it took for him to join us, I was certain they were. If Chandler was a wolf, I would have fucked him over Deacon’s desk while we waited, but I didn’t take pleasure in humans. Fucking bodies were too damn brittle, weak-ass bones and internal organs. One pounding from me and the son of a bitch would have been dead.