Caramel: Book 3 of the Lord Emperor Vampire Series
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Land of the Rising Son - Part One
Please be advised that the EPILOGUE to Cinnamon was messed up. It has been added to the Cinnamon story as MISSING. Apologies for being snarky in my Q&A regarding the medical questions. I was thinking, Dr. Maxwell said he wasn’t sterile. What didn’t you get? Apparently you didn’t get the chapter because of a computer glitch. I will be double checking from now on.
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I will be attempting Japanese in the next chapter. I need a translation for the phrase
“Kill the traitor. Bring me his head.”
I have a Japanese course book and it just doesn’t cover my blood thirsty tendencies.
WARNING: ANCIENT VAMPIRE BUNNIES (if you don’t know what that means…get thee back to Cake & Cinnamon) Not much, but a little freaky.
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Chapter 92: Land of the Rising Son – Part One
Oh. Dear. God. How many times can someone join the mile high club? Or did you join once and then just renew your membership. If that was the case, those two had just made sure they were card carrying members until 2028. I turned up my mp3 player but then I heard Hades cry. I yanked the buds out of my ears and concentrated on slapping a silence binding on them. You can only take so much.
Haley looked up from the gameboy he was playing and rolled his eyes. He had enough of Billiam and Hades as well. You could still hear the mattress creaking. I pinched the bridge of my nose. I have a headache…and it’s name is P.A. My only other option was to go to the back of the jet -- which technically was mine, which technically meant it should be me sleeping in my bed -- and tell them to knock it off. I shuddered; I was going to have to burn that mattress when we got home.
I got up. Haley made a move to follow me but I shook my head. The creaking of the mattress had stopped by the time I got to the privacy door. I jerked it open and I got what I deserved. Oh crap. Billiam and Hades weren’t done. Now I found out why Hades was screaming as I saw his combined lovers, William and Liam, actually fang that sensitive area just behind the balls. I instinctively slammed my legs together and covered my groin. I slammed the door closed. Ewww. Owwww. I needed to wash my eyes. I felt so dirty.
The door opened and I was jerked back into the warm sex scented room. “Are you needy, little Emperor?” The tall thin body of the progenitor wrapped his arms around me, snaking a hand across my white dress shirt and right past my belt into my pants. I squeaked as he squeezed my genitalia. Billiam turned me toward the bed. Hades was laying there his watery blue eyes glazed and his limbs actually twitched. “My Honeybee is worn out.” I got bumped from behind. “I am not.”
“Get off me.”
“Get off on you?”
“I Phoenix here, everybody dies.”
I got a sucking kiss to the side of my neck with just a hint of fang. “You are no fun, Xavier.” He pulled his hand out of my pants and pushed me toward the bed. I tripped and landed on top of Hades. He oofed and curled up in a ball. My head handed close to his portal…like I really wanted to be there. Eeeewww. I flipped over and got ready to climb off the bed.
Billiam was there blocking me, standing literally, in all his glory as he lit a cigarette. There was a deep red glow on his face then it went out. He tossed the lighter back on the stand and took a deep drag. “This is William’s addiction…but I like it.”
“What’s yours?”
“My little shepherd boy. He has always been my addiction.” Billiam leaned forward and caught my chin. “You could easily be another one.”
“I draw the line at sleeping with blood relatives.”
He chuckled in that deep Viking way of his. His whole damn body moved. “Doesn’t hurt to ask.” He manhandled Hades almost unconscious body off to the far side of the bed, then climbed over me. I ducked to keep from being hit by uncovered appendages. He caught me around the neck and pulled me back to him. Hades as hugging him from the left side and he had a death grip on me from the right side. He crossed his legs, basking in his nakedness and blew out another drag of smoke.
“You did good, Little Emperor. There was a potential for a very messy underworld war if you fucked up. Still…you do things with your own unique style. I think I like that about you. Just so you know. Don’t fight me. I might not have the strength I used to but this Red is stronger than you think. Just lay there and rest, Xavier. You’re running on blood and coffee.”
“You didn’t get to spend a long time in the Land of the Rising of Sun, Little Emperor, but you got yourself one hell of a souvenir. An Eastern Blood Lycan. Your pack was going to be exotically beautiful.”
I just sighed and lay back against Billiam’s warm body. He wasn’t the same as Armor but as I’ve just discovered, I can’t sleep alone. Haley helped but I needed a whole lotta Vampire at my back. “You’re whole face changes when you think of him.”
I just grunted at him. “What makes you think Haley and Ping are going to hit it off?”
He laughed. The whole bed shook. “A Northern Prince and a Warlord’s Priceless daughter – both guaranteed to be Alphas—when she wants to mate, do you think your little Lycan is going to have a say in the matter. As I said, you are going to have a beautiful pack, in either form.”
“Can you shut up? I’m tired.”
“You are a killer, Little Emperor. You are quick and you are efficient. You have impressed the hell out of the Eastern Vampire Nation. They will think twice about siding against you.”
I just laid on the bed and tried not to think. I thinked..thanked….whatever, too much as it was, but I couldn’t plot like Liam. He was thinking so far ahead. No wonder Hades maneuvered Sex into his bed without us even realizing we were being played. He was taught by the grand master. I closed my eyes. I don’t even know if I’m capable of thinking like that. Liam pulled me closer to him and bumped my ass with his hip as he settled down on the bed. Note to self, burn this suit. I nestled into the covers and relaxed.
The incident that brought my motley little crew over to Japan was masking over a botched assassination. It was a division fuck up and it was bad enough to have everyone getting their fangs in an up roar. I was sleeping on my big monkey when the call came through on the satellite phone. The Chairman of the Board basically barked through the wire to get my prettyboy ass up and over to Japan and fix it…now. I sincerely doubted the Board spoke to Hades like that.
“X?” Armor tangled his hand in my hair and pulled me up for a morning breath kiss. Both of us went eeeeww and headed for the bathroom. True to his word, Armor washed and dried and basically played with my hair. This lead to other wonderful eye popping things that involved me ripping bathroom tiles right off the wall. There wasn’t even a chance of hiding that from Chesterton. I got hampered by Armor’s version of helping getting me dressed, which was basically feeling me up and getting me horny, then I got sent off to eat breakfast. A couple of minutes later, Armor sauntered into the kitchen in his silk pjs and housecoat…which I think is a 1700’s thing.
I got up to refill my coffee mug and found Armor perched on my chair. He drank out of his own warm blood mug and patted his lap. Haley bounded in. Since I hadn’t made a move to Armor’s chair substitute, Haley plopped himself down and opened his mouth for bacon. I busted out laughing. Pods and Penguins. What the hell kind of family are we? Armor gave Haley a rasher then shoved him off.
I went and sat on my vampire chair and finished off breakfast. Haley was just tiring too watch this early in the morning. “You will have to take him with you to Japan. I cannot go with you.”
“Why can’t you go? I thought it would be a vacation/honeymoon sort of thing.”
“The Chairman called you. It is bound to be a more than a little complicated. Besides, Father has to play Master of the Territory today. He will be in court all day since it is almost a year since the last court was held. I saw the docket…it will probably be a minimum of three days. So that means that I will fulfilling the duties of First. Take Hades and William with you.”
I almost spit my coffee out. “Are you kidding?”
“So what if they are acting like fuck bunnies. They are Ancients. They are royalists. They will protect you.”
“If they aren’t too busy tearing into each other. I don’t think we were ever that bad.”
“Yes, you were. You still are if you look at all the brothers, especially Sex and Claudius. I can’t go anywhere on Sunday, they could be doing it anywhere.” Haley added looking up from his scrambled eggs. “Claudius doesn’t like to be watched. He pulls ears.”
I rubbed a hand down my face. “So it would be like the pot calling the kettle black. I don’t have a passport. Haley doesn’t have ID.”
“You run Shadoe Inc. Just tell your PA to arrange it. You will have to leave today.”
I sighed. Haley, Hades, Billiam, Winter, Riot, Garrote and myself piled into the corporate jet and took off for the land of the rising sun. The Ancient horny toads controlled themselves on the way over. They just snuggled and giggled together. That in itself was disturbing.
That first week was hell. For everyone. I probably didn’t make it easier when I evicted Hades from the penthouse. I had to. He submitted to me during the challenge in front of the whole Ranked before I blew everything to hell. I gave Father the penthouse. He didn’t want it and he was damned it he was going to move again. Then I said the magic words “thirty-six rooms”. He moved only his work essentials – which surprisingly was only one room and let Hades have the first option on his condo. The teenaged bastard took it.
However, Hades couldn’t take possession right away and it was only good manners that I put him up at Von Drachenfeld until the condo was cleared out. There was a team of experts I hired to go through the mess that was Father’s domain. They were looking for valuable items, furniture, books, manuscripts and all sort of other things. Two days with Hades in my house, I hired movers and rented a warehouse, just to get him the hell away from me.
Billiam and Hades were a screaming match 24/7. It would be been a lot more peaceful if they just let loose and wailed on each other until there was only one standing. The standing one would be the fucker. The defeated, the fuckee. That would have been too easy. They insisted on doing things the hard way. Apparently the hard way worked, because it actually turned my stomach to see them all lovey dovey.
It was a twelve hour flight there. I thought I was going into a diabetic coma by the time we landed it was so damn sweet of them. I read over the contract that was basically fucked all to hell. Vampires, humans AND Lycans died when this thing got fubarred. I showed Hades and I got a sweet smile that basically said, sorry about your luck.
“You know, Xavier, you technically can’t show me that stuff anymore. I’m out of the House.”
I laughed out loud when Billiam smacked him on the back of the head. “Don’t be a dick, Honeybee.”
“Let him try it on his own first. I won’t let him fail utterly.”
I narrowed my eyes at the little bastard. Who the hell said I was going to fail? I took my little files and went back to my seat. Haley popped out of his seat sat on the floor and leaned against my leg. He closed his eyes and went to sleep. Riot dropped off a mug of blood. I nodded my thanks.
“Where’s mine?” Hades demanded in that crackling adolescent voice.
“The galley’s over there.”
I buried my face in the folder and snickered.
“Please, Riot, can you bring me and my love a couple of warm mugs.” Billiam spoke warmly and easily.
“Sure.” Riot passed me and winked. I ducked my head again and looked out of the jet’s window. The sunset was beautiful. Armor would have like this. This would be the first time we’ve been apart – contentinally in two years., actually ever. Big sigh.
“More flies with honey, shepherd boy.”
Hades turned and sulked. Typical 900 teenager. Billiam caught my eye and rolled his own eyes then dragged the other man to his side.
I had a rough plan of action. The contract was to basically hunt down a high ranking traitor within the Yotohama Corporation – which was as front for a Vampire/Human partnership underworld trading hub. There was a faction that was basically undermining the current leadership and messing up the schedules. Not good with time sensitive materials. The Eastern Lycans were lead by an Alpha Female – Lei. They seemed to be on excellent relations with the Eastern Vampires. Unlike Britta and me. Someone squealed and people died. They wanted the mess cleaned up, the squealer and the original faction wiped out. A.S.A.P. And that’s all that was in the folder. I was flying to a foreign country and that’s all the intell I had.
Well, at least I’d get the language down quickly. I’d just have to mindfuck our escort and hit the ground running from there. Which I did. My plan was to mindfuck my way to the top with a little bit of knife work if I had to, well if Azrael had to. The days of sitting on the roof with a sniper rifle are long gone.
The escort that was there to meet the jet was to get me into the sedan and take me to Yotohama were they would yell at me for a couple of hours before giving me any information. I got my language from a body guard. I got the layout of the city from the chauffeur and we loaded up the Loyal and the PAs and headed off to the killing grounds. A Lycan, who doesn’t hate your guts and doesn’t want to see you hanging from a light standard by them, is a good thing to have. Haley picked up the scent of three who made it out of the ambush. The area was still secured by the local police. I found a cop with the knowledge I was looking for and gently wiggled it out of him. It was so much easier now I didn’t have to physically touch my informant, sitting in a blacked out sedan from about one hundred feet away is better for everyone. There were suspicions but police cannot storm in on suspicions. I had no such problem. I got three faces and names, habits and locations. With this and Haley’s scent tracking, they were as good as ours.
I got the chauffeur to take us to the marketplace the police knew they hung out at. They were petty thugs trying to make a step to the next level. I don’t know if murder was part of their business plan. Haley had the window down and the soft light of day streamed in. Hades, Billiam and myself weren’t affected by it anymore. The rest of the Loyal were squashed together on the far side of the sedan.
Haley jumped out of the moving car. “STOP!” Crap that boy can move. I grabbed at the open door and hopped out keeping my eyes on him. Somebody grabbed my wrist but I shook them off and trailed after my hunting pup.
I spied one of the three we were looking for. I saw him just as Haley caught his scent.
/Don’t bay. We need to be quiet./ I pack called to him. /Drive him my way, we’ll do this in the alley to the left./
He was a human. He had never seen Haley before, but there is an ingrained sense of survival in all animals. Watching the tawny haired young man running at him, with feral gold eyes that were locked on him moving either left or right, told him to get the hell up and out of the area. He ran right into me. I grabbed him by the shoulder and swung him into the alley. He flew about five feet and hit the garbage strewn ground.
/Nobody in, nobody out,/ Haley took up guard at the alleyway entrance and I stalked after my prey. He scrambled backwards but there was no where for him to go. I mind walked through him and got everything I needed without asking one single question. I was going to have to find Chan to get more answers. However, this one needed to be made into an example.
/Olly olly oxen free, Azrael./
/What the hell does that mean?/
/You want to kill him or not?/
/I can do what I want?/
/He’s all yours little brother…just don’t take too long, our next target is jumping ship./
I grinned and snapped out my blades. X had given me the mental picture the guy had of us as we stalked down the alley toward him. White demon of death, indeed. I wrinkled my nose, he pissed himself. “Please, no.”
“You know what you did. Did you think that there wouldn’t be consequences?”
“I can tell you where things are! You don’t have to kill me.”
“I already know everything useful you could tell me. You are still useful though.” I should have felt bad giving him false hope, especially seeing how his face lit up. Then I thought of those pictures in the file of those dead security guards, Lycan and vamps. “You, my friend, are going to be a message. I had to fly halfway around the world because of you and your little cohorts. I’ll miss my day with my Puppy and I’m not happy about that. Even though I lost the coin toss, I was looking forward to the hell my Puppy was going to put me through. So, instead, I’ll have fun with you. Well it’s more fun for me than for you.”
I slapped a binding on him and started my wet work.
I only spent five minutes with him. I was either that good or he was just not resilient enough. He bled out before I could get my fangs out. Oh well, I got enough blood on my suit jacket as it was. I cleaned my blades, tucked them back and started back down the alley. Liam was standing at the end with Haley. “Nice way to blend guys.”
Liam pivoted and slammed up against the brick wall. I smacked my head hard. Liam plastered his frame on me. He lowered his head, “There are cops out there looking for that guy. You are splattered with blood.” Liam slipped my jacket off and tossed it at Haley.
He began licking my face. I was more splattered that I thought. “You even got it in your hair.” He lapped at my ear then began chewing at my hair, wetting down to the end. Liam’s grey eyes looked over my face, then he turned my head to the left and began to lick at my neck. I knew I was being played when a knee pushed my legs part and he pressed his thigh against my groin. His fangs scraped my neck. I flicked my wrist and brought my blade up under his chin. He stopped.
“All you had to say was no, Azrael.”
“How the hell did you know it was me?”
“Xavier would have been mouthing off at me as soon as I pushed him against the wall. Sex…well he seems to draw blood out of me every time he’s around. But I wasn’t kidding about the cops.”
“I do believe Elder Brother, told you no.”
“Yeah, he did.”
“Are you going to be a pest like your little honeybee?”
“I know what no means, Azrael. I may steal kisses, but that is the extent.”
“Good, because, I would hate to have to kill you, but I would.”
Haley stepped back into the alley, “It’s clear.”
I hid my dagger away and lead my posse out of the alley back to the Sedan. I gave the driver the next location and sat back on the seat. “Good job, Haley.”
He flashed he a big grin, “Thanks, Azrael.”
I leaned back. I’d take it. It would be nice if we could get this all cleared up the way we did when Armor had a hit on him. What was it, thirteen dead in two hours? That was fun. I glanced at my watch. I hadn’t changed it to the new time so I’d just keep track of everything here. We’ll see how things went. I glanced out the window. Land of the Rising Sun. If we were lucky, we could get this straightened up and get out of here before midnight my time. Stranger in a strange land but everyone died the same way—by my hand.
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I will be attempting Japanese in the next chapter. I need a translation for the phrase
“Kill the traitor. Bring me his head.”
I have a Japanese course book and it just doesn’t cover my blood thirsty tendencies.
WARNING: ANCIENT VAMPIRE BUNNIES (if you don’t know what that means…get thee back to Cake & Cinnamon) Not much, but a little freaky.
Again, thanks for coming back for more. ENJOY
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Chapter 92: Land of the Rising Son – Part One
Oh. Dear. God. How many times can someone join the mile high club? Or did you join once and then just renew your membership. If that was the case, those two had just made sure they were card carrying members until 2028. I turned up my mp3 player but then I heard Hades cry. I yanked the buds out of my ears and concentrated on slapping a silence binding on them. You can only take so much.
Haley looked up from the gameboy he was playing and rolled his eyes. He had enough of Billiam and Hades as well. You could still hear the mattress creaking. I pinched the bridge of my nose. I have a headache…and it’s name is P.A. My only other option was to go to the back of the jet -- which technically was mine, which technically meant it should be me sleeping in my bed -- and tell them to knock it off. I shuddered; I was going to have to burn that mattress when we got home.
I got up. Haley made a move to follow me but I shook my head. The creaking of the mattress had stopped by the time I got to the privacy door. I jerked it open and I got what I deserved. Oh crap. Billiam and Hades weren’t done. Now I found out why Hades was screaming as I saw his combined lovers, William and Liam, actually fang that sensitive area just behind the balls. I instinctively slammed my legs together and covered my groin. I slammed the door closed. Ewww. Owwww. I needed to wash my eyes. I felt so dirty.
The door opened and I was jerked back into the warm sex scented room. “Are you needy, little Emperor?” The tall thin body of the progenitor wrapped his arms around me, snaking a hand across my white dress shirt and right past my belt into my pants. I squeaked as he squeezed my genitalia. Billiam turned me toward the bed. Hades was laying there his watery blue eyes glazed and his limbs actually twitched. “My Honeybee is worn out.” I got bumped from behind. “I am not.”
“Get off me.”
“Get off on you?”
“I Phoenix here, everybody dies.”
I got a sucking kiss to the side of my neck with just a hint of fang. “You are no fun, Xavier.” He pulled his hand out of my pants and pushed me toward the bed. I tripped and landed on top of Hades. He oofed and curled up in a ball. My head handed close to his portal…like I really wanted to be there. Eeeewww. I flipped over and got ready to climb off the bed.
Billiam was there blocking me, standing literally, in all his glory as he lit a cigarette. There was a deep red glow on his face then it went out. He tossed the lighter back on the stand and took a deep drag. “This is William’s addiction…but I like it.”
“What’s yours?”
“My little shepherd boy. He has always been my addiction.” Billiam leaned forward and caught my chin. “You could easily be another one.”
“I draw the line at sleeping with blood relatives.”
He chuckled in that deep Viking way of his. His whole damn body moved. “Doesn’t hurt to ask.” He manhandled Hades almost unconscious body off to the far side of the bed, then climbed over me. I ducked to keep from being hit by uncovered appendages. He caught me around the neck and pulled me back to him. Hades as hugging him from the left side and he had a death grip on me from the right side. He crossed his legs, basking in his nakedness and blew out another drag of smoke.
“You did good, Little Emperor. There was a potential for a very messy underworld war if you fucked up. Still…you do things with your own unique style. I think I like that about you. Just so you know. Don’t fight me. I might not have the strength I used to but this Red is stronger than you think. Just lay there and rest, Xavier. You’re running on blood and coffee.”
“You didn’t get to spend a long time in the Land of the Rising of Sun, Little Emperor, but you got yourself one hell of a souvenir. An Eastern Blood Lycan. Your pack was going to be exotically beautiful.”
I just sighed and lay back against Billiam’s warm body. He wasn’t the same as Armor but as I’ve just discovered, I can’t sleep alone. Haley helped but I needed a whole lotta Vampire at my back. “You’re whole face changes when you think of him.”
I just grunted at him. “What makes you think Haley and Ping are going to hit it off?”
He laughed. The whole bed shook. “A Northern Prince and a Warlord’s Priceless daughter – both guaranteed to be Alphas—when she wants to mate, do you think your little Lycan is going to have a say in the matter. As I said, you are going to have a beautiful pack, in either form.”
“Can you shut up? I’m tired.”
“You are a killer, Little Emperor. You are quick and you are efficient. You have impressed the hell out of the Eastern Vampire Nation. They will think twice about siding against you.”
I just laid on the bed and tried not to think. I thinked..thanked….whatever, too much as it was, but I couldn’t plot like Liam. He was thinking so far ahead. No wonder Hades maneuvered Sex into his bed without us even realizing we were being played. He was taught by the grand master. I closed my eyes. I don’t even know if I’m capable of thinking like that. Liam pulled me closer to him and bumped my ass with his hip as he settled down on the bed. Note to self, burn this suit. I nestled into the covers and relaxed.
The incident that brought my motley little crew over to Japan was masking over a botched assassination. It was a division fuck up and it was bad enough to have everyone getting their fangs in an up roar. I was sleeping on my big monkey when the call came through on the satellite phone. The Chairman of the Board basically barked through the wire to get my prettyboy ass up and over to Japan and fix it…now. I sincerely doubted the Board spoke to Hades like that.
“X?” Armor tangled his hand in my hair and pulled me up for a morning breath kiss. Both of us went eeeeww and headed for the bathroom. True to his word, Armor washed and dried and basically played with my hair. This lead to other wonderful eye popping things that involved me ripping bathroom tiles right off the wall. There wasn’t even a chance of hiding that from Chesterton. I got hampered by Armor’s version of helping getting me dressed, which was basically feeling me up and getting me horny, then I got sent off to eat breakfast. A couple of minutes later, Armor sauntered into the kitchen in his silk pjs and housecoat…which I think is a 1700’s thing.
I got up to refill my coffee mug and found Armor perched on my chair. He drank out of his own warm blood mug and patted his lap. Haley bounded in. Since I hadn’t made a move to Armor’s chair substitute, Haley plopped himself down and opened his mouth for bacon. I busted out laughing. Pods and Penguins. What the hell kind of family are we? Armor gave Haley a rasher then shoved him off.
I went and sat on my vampire chair and finished off breakfast. Haley was just tiring too watch this early in the morning. “You will have to take him with you to Japan. I cannot go with you.”
“Why can’t you go? I thought it would be a vacation/honeymoon sort of thing.”
“The Chairman called you. It is bound to be a more than a little complicated. Besides, Father has to play Master of the Territory today. He will be in court all day since it is almost a year since the last court was held. I saw the docket…it will probably be a minimum of three days. So that means that I will fulfilling the duties of First. Take Hades and William with you.”
I almost spit my coffee out. “Are you kidding?”
“So what if they are acting like fuck bunnies. They are Ancients. They are royalists. They will protect you.”
“If they aren’t too busy tearing into each other. I don’t think we were ever that bad.”
“Yes, you were. You still are if you look at all the brothers, especially Sex and Claudius. I can’t go anywhere on Sunday, they could be doing it anywhere.” Haley added looking up from his scrambled eggs. “Claudius doesn’t like to be watched. He pulls ears.”
I rubbed a hand down my face. “So it would be like the pot calling the kettle black. I don’t have a passport. Haley doesn’t have ID.”
“You run Shadoe Inc. Just tell your PA to arrange it. You will have to leave today.”
I sighed. Haley, Hades, Billiam, Winter, Riot, Garrote and myself piled into the corporate jet and took off for the land of the rising sun. The Ancient horny toads controlled themselves on the way over. They just snuggled and giggled together. That in itself was disturbing.
That first week was hell. For everyone. I probably didn’t make it easier when I evicted Hades from the penthouse. I had to. He submitted to me during the challenge in front of the whole Ranked before I blew everything to hell. I gave Father the penthouse. He didn’t want it and he was damned it he was going to move again. Then I said the magic words “thirty-six rooms”. He moved only his work essentials – which surprisingly was only one room and let Hades have the first option on his condo. The teenaged bastard took it.
However, Hades couldn’t take possession right away and it was only good manners that I put him up at Von Drachenfeld until the condo was cleared out. There was a team of experts I hired to go through the mess that was Father’s domain. They were looking for valuable items, furniture, books, manuscripts and all sort of other things. Two days with Hades in my house, I hired movers and rented a warehouse, just to get him the hell away from me.
Billiam and Hades were a screaming match 24/7. It would be been a lot more peaceful if they just let loose and wailed on each other until there was only one standing. The standing one would be the fucker. The defeated, the fuckee. That would have been too easy. They insisted on doing things the hard way. Apparently the hard way worked, because it actually turned my stomach to see them all lovey dovey.
It was a twelve hour flight there. I thought I was going into a diabetic coma by the time we landed it was so damn sweet of them. I read over the contract that was basically fucked all to hell. Vampires, humans AND Lycans died when this thing got fubarred. I showed Hades and I got a sweet smile that basically said, sorry about your luck.
“You know, Xavier, you technically can’t show me that stuff anymore. I’m out of the House.”
I laughed out loud when Billiam smacked him on the back of the head. “Don’t be a dick, Honeybee.”
“Let him try it on his own first. I won’t let him fail utterly.”
I narrowed my eyes at the little bastard. Who the hell said I was going to fail? I took my little files and went back to my seat. Haley popped out of his seat sat on the floor and leaned against my leg. He closed his eyes and went to sleep. Riot dropped off a mug of blood. I nodded my thanks.
“Where’s mine?” Hades demanded in that crackling adolescent voice.
“The galley’s over there.”
I buried my face in the folder and snickered.
“Please, Riot, can you bring me and my love a couple of warm mugs.” Billiam spoke warmly and easily.
“Sure.” Riot passed me and winked. I ducked my head again and looked out of the jet’s window. The sunset was beautiful. Armor would have like this. This would be the first time we’ve been apart – contentinally in two years., actually ever. Big sigh.
“More flies with honey, shepherd boy.”
Hades turned and sulked. Typical 900 teenager. Billiam caught my eye and rolled his own eyes then dragged the other man to his side.
I had a rough plan of action. The contract was to basically hunt down a high ranking traitor within the Yotohama Corporation – which was as front for a Vampire/Human partnership underworld trading hub. There was a faction that was basically undermining the current leadership and messing up the schedules. Not good with time sensitive materials. The Eastern Lycans were lead by an Alpha Female – Lei. They seemed to be on excellent relations with the Eastern Vampires. Unlike Britta and me. Someone squealed and people died. They wanted the mess cleaned up, the squealer and the original faction wiped out. A.S.A.P. And that’s all that was in the folder. I was flying to a foreign country and that’s all the intell I had.
Well, at least I’d get the language down quickly. I’d just have to mindfuck our escort and hit the ground running from there. Which I did. My plan was to mindfuck my way to the top with a little bit of knife work if I had to, well if Azrael had to. The days of sitting on the roof with a sniper rifle are long gone.
The escort that was there to meet the jet was to get me into the sedan and take me to Yotohama were they would yell at me for a couple of hours before giving me any information. I got my language from a body guard. I got the layout of the city from the chauffeur and we loaded up the Loyal and the PAs and headed off to the killing grounds. A Lycan, who doesn’t hate your guts and doesn’t want to see you hanging from a light standard by them, is a good thing to have. Haley picked up the scent of three who made it out of the ambush. The area was still secured by the local police. I found a cop with the knowledge I was looking for and gently wiggled it out of him. It was so much easier now I didn’t have to physically touch my informant, sitting in a blacked out sedan from about one hundred feet away is better for everyone. There were suspicions but police cannot storm in on suspicions. I had no such problem. I got three faces and names, habits and locations. With this and Haley’s scent tracking, they were as good as ours.
I got the chauffeur to take us to the marketplace the police knew they hung out at. They were petty thugs trying to make a step to the next level. I don’t know if murder was part of their business plan. Haley had the window down and the soft light of day streamed in. Hades, Billiam and myself weren’t affected by it anymore. The rest of the Loyal were squashed together on the far side of the sedan.
Haley jumped out of the moving car. “STOP!” Crap that boy can move. I grabbed at the open door and hopped out keeping my eyes on him. Somebody grabbed my wrist but I shook them off and trailed after my hunting pup.
I spied one of the three we were looking for. I saw him just as Haley caught his scent.
/Don’t bay. We need to be quiet./ I pack called to him. /Drive him my way, we’ll do this in the alley to the left./
He was a human. He had never seen Haley before, but there is an ingrained sense of survival in all animals. Watching the tawny haired young man running at him, with feral gold eyes that were locked on him moving either left or right, told him to get the hell up and out of the area. He ran right into me. I grabbed him by the shoulder and swung him into the alley. He flew about five feet and hit the garbage strewn ground.
/Nobody in, nobody out,/ Haley took up guard at the alleyway entrance and I stalked after my prey. He scrambled backwards but there was no where for him to go. I mind walked through him and got everything I needed without asking one single question. I was going to have to find Chan to get more answers. However, this one needed to be made into an example.
/Olly olly oxen free, Azrael./
/What the hell does that mean?/
/You want to kill him or not?/
/I can do what I want?/
/He’s all yours little brother…just don’t take too long, our next target is jumping ship./
I grinned and snapped out my blades. X had given me the mental picture the guy had of us as we stalked down the alley toward him. White demon of death, indeed. I wrinkled my nose, he pissed himself. “Please, no.”
“You know what you did. Did you think that there wouldn’t be consequences?”
“I can tell you where things are! You don’t have to kill me.”
“I already know everything useful you could tell me. You are still useful though.” I should have felt bad giving him false hope, especially seeing how his face lit up. Then I thought of those pictures in the file of those dead security guards, Lycan and vamps. “You, my friend, are going to be a message. I had to fly halfway around the world because of you and your little cohorts. I’ll miss my day with my Puppy and I’m not happy about that. Even though I lost the coin toss, I was looking forward to the hell my Puppy was going to put me through. So, instead, I’ll have fun with you. Well it’s more fun for me than for you.”
I slapped a binding on him and started my wet work.
I only spent five minutes with him. I was either that good or he was just not resilient enough. He bled out before I could get my fangs out. Oh well, I got enough blood on my suit jacket as it was. I cleaned my blades, tucked them back and started back down the alley. Liam was standing at the end with Haley. “Nice way to blend guys.”
Liam pivoted and slammed up against the brick wall. I smacked my head hard. Liam plastered his frame on me. He lowered his head, “There are cops out there looking for that guy. You are splattered with blood.” Liam slipped my jacket off and tossed it at Haley.
He began licking my face. I was more splattered that I thought. “You even got it in your hair.” He lapped at my ear then began chewing at my hair, wetting down to the end. Liam’s grey eyes looked over my face, then he turned my head to the left and began to lick at my neck. I knew I was being played when a knee pushed my legs part and he pressed his thigh against my groin. His fangs scraped my neck. I flicked my wrist and brought my blade up under his chin. He stopped.
“All you had to say was no, Azrael.”
“How the hell did you know it was me?”
“Xavier would have been mouthing off at me as soon as I pushed him against the wall. Sex…well he seems to draw blood out of me every time he’s around. But I wasn’t kidding about the cops.”
“I do believe Elder Brother, told you no.”
“Yeah, he did.”
“Are you going to be a pest like your little honeybee?”
“I know what no means, Azrael. I may steal kisses, but that is the extent.”
“Good, because, I would hate to have to kill you, but I would.”
Haley stepped back into the alley, “It’s clear.”
I hid my dagger away and lead my posse out of the alley back to the Sedan. I gave the driver the next location and sat back on the seat. “Good job, Haley.”
He flashed he a big grin, “Thanks, Azrael.”
I leaned back. I’d take it. It would be nice if we could get this all cleared up the way we did when Armor had a hit on him. What was it, thirteen dead in two hours? That was fun. I glanced at my watch. I hadn’t changed it to the new time so I’d just keep track of everything here. We’ll see how things went. I glanced out the window. Land of the Rising Sun. If we were lucky, we could get this straightened up and get out of here before midnight my time. Stranger in a strange land but everyone died the same way—by my hand.