“Getting back to what you’re proposing,” Josef said, snapping back to his old self. “How do we determine what will belong to whom when the smoke clears. Because the humans will retaliate, we need to be prepared for war. There are more of them than us.”
“That is why we cripple them from the top. With supes in control of silver and weapon production and distribution, how will they get it in large quantities to fight back?” Nolan said.
“With supes in control of government, how will they gain support or even be able to mobilize their armies? Most countries don’t even have a formidable military, and the ones who do, we grab them by the balls,” Tylendel said.
“As for how we determine what is ours and what is yours. You keep your territory, call it whatever you want. We keep ours, it’s that simple. However, the reason why we wanted to meet here is because there should be a neutral place for all supes to gather. And a place where we can all hunt,” Nolan said.
It was obvious that the dragons and vampires seemed to have worked most of this out and were just letting us wolves in on the scheme because, let’s face it, they needed our help. I did have to admit… I liked the idea of being in control. “So, just so I’m understanding you, Wolf territory will remain the same, but while we do our uprising, you’ll need our help when the humans attack in your own territories?” I asked.
“And vice-versa, yes. That will be a delicate time and we have to put aside our differences in order to be successful. The vampires sleep during the day, they will need protection from humans, and that is where we come in,” Tylendel said.
“Wolves have your own weaknesses as well, but with our speed and power, we can protect you when you need it,” Nolan said. “We aren’t expecting too much of a revolt from the humans, because again, we will already have placed key players in charge of their resources. But factions will form to fight and we need to be prepared for those until we squash them underfoot.”
“This location you speak of, this neutral ground, how much territory will it cover?” Akio asked.
Tylendel gave the miles and size. “That should be big enough for us to create businesses that we can share in that area. And even partake in some of each other’s establishments under the safety of it being neutral ground.”
Akio nodded. “I agree. And the other neutral ground you mentioned. It that a no-mans-land?”
“Something like an outskirt of sorts. It’s where humans will go who refuse to conform. There are always humans who rebel. This location will receive no support from us and will be a free-for-all hunting ground. It is the price they will pay for their poor choices,” Nolan said.
“So, this one location will be a safe zone for humans as well as all supe kind, but the other is a feeding ground?” Benjamin asked.
Tylendel nodded.
“How about we call this new location Orion, after the Greek God and hunter?” Selena suggested.
“It’s as good a name as any. Do we all agree?” Akio asked.
“Works for me. I really don’t care what it’s called,” Josef said.
His opinion was pretty much echoed by everyone else and agreed upon.
“So, in ten years, we make our move,” Akio said.
“In ten years, to this day, we raise hell and take over,” Tylendel stated.
“Who would have ever thought we’d agree on anything,” I said and chuckled. “If there isn’t anything else to discuss, I’d like to get home. Seems like I have work to do.”
“We will see each other again. Have a pleasant evening,” Tylendel said.
I couldn’t wait to get back to my limo so I could gossip about what happened. No sooner than we were all inside the back of the limo, did the chatter start. We were excited about the possibility of a future where we were in charge. Where humans would have to bow down to us or else. No longer having to hide who or what we were. Oh yeah… count me all the way in.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Business as Usual
That meeting was twenty years ago and for the past ten years, as promised, supes were running the world. It had been almost too easy. It started with a broadcast that most humans didn’t take seriously. Then mass hysteria once they realized that broadcast wasn’t a joke. They couldn’t turn to their governments for help, because so many of us were in charge. My wolves were mayors in all the cities and every governor was a supe, even the president was a human who had turned on his own for a chance to become one of us. To be honest, that really was the human race’s downfall. Their own betrayal. So many wanted to have the power we offered and the ability to live forever. Too tempting for them to turn down.
I didn’t even think the battle lasted six months, it certainly didn’t last a year before the humans surrendered. They had no choice. In that time, in my personal life, Sanese had gifted me with two more children. Twin girls, Jessica and Selena, named after Sanese’s mother, not that bitch of an Alpha. And my son, Daniel, had reached his maturity and was full pack now. The last wolf I trained personally. Nicholette gave birth to a son, my youngest. His name was Santiago, he was seventeen now, horny and wild. I would also train him once he turned full wolf. Proudly, I had eleven children, five grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. A pack within a pack. I didn’t know of any wolf with as many children as I had. That was just one other thing I felt set me apart and above. I must admit, Josef was impressive as he had five children, which made him the only other wolf I knew of that had more than three kids.
Ten years of supes being in control has been profitable for everyone, really. Supes and humans alike. Billions of humans still lived and they did so without diseases killing them off or wars or famine. With the exception of the fools who refused to surrender to our rule. They lived in towns many call the Outskirts or the Trashbins. They had no protection and their lives were dangerous and lawless. Their stubbornness only led to their downfall. But some people were stuck on stupid. Made no difference to me. The real problem was the little upstart rebellion factions out there.
The vampires just had to deal with one that destroyed some of Theoden’s businesses. Not that I gave a damn. And he got his revenge after he caught them and turned their leader into a vampire on national television. Yeah, I watched it. Made for good TV and the little bastard was hot, so I could see why Theoden wanted to keep him. I had my own rebel problem that I was trying to track down. Last month, the fuckers bombed one of my restaurants in Orion. Took out five of my wolves in the process. I had to find this group and make them pay. The longer it took me to find them, the weaker I looked as Alpha and I couldn’t let it slide.
“Tilt your head a little, Boss,” Dwayne said, capturing my attention.
I did as he asked, because he was giving me a tattoo at the moment. It hurt like a motherfucker, but I loved them. With the advancement of technology came science, and some genius out there figured out a way for wolves, dragons, and vampires to be able to get tattoos if we wanted them without killing ourselves or having the ink fad away. Trick was using a silver alloy needle and mixing the ink with our own blood. That was what made it permanent. I already had one tattoo on my chest of a wolf, a likeness of my animal counterpart.
This one was of a lion wearing a crown. Something that my wife, Charlene, said to me fifty years ago. Words I needed to hear in order to take my destiny into my own hands. This special tattoo was going on my neck and like I said, it hurt like hell, but Dwayne was an artist and I trusted he was doing a great job. I gripped the armrest of his tattoo chair when the needle hit a sensitive spot, but didn’t move.
“I’m almost done, Boss,” Dwayne said.
“I should hope so.”
Another ten minutes and he was done. I checked out his craftmanship in the mirror and was very pleased with his work. “Beautiful, Dwayne.”
“Thank you, Boss.” He was beaming. “It should heal within the hour, Boss.”
I nodded. “I know, and thank goodness. Burns like a son of a bitch right now.”
Just then, another
wolf burst through his tattoo parlor door. Elliot jumped up from where he was sitting and stopped the wolf before he could get any closer. “Boss, someone burned down two more of your businesses.”
“What the fuck you say?” I asked as I put on my shirt.
He swallowed, gathered his composure, and began again. “Your clothing store, Style, was bombed as well as your hardware store on Burgundy Street, Boss.”
“Do we know by whom?” I asked. “Is it the same group that bombed my restaurant last month?”
He shrugged. “We’re not a hundred percent sure, but we think so, since the same kind of bomb appeared to be used. Victor thinks he can trap them for you, Boss.”
I looked at Elliot. “Get Victor on the phone.”
I paid Dwayne for his time and skill, then left. I was fuming, because how dare someone fuck with my money. With my properties! With me! I was going to find this human scum and roast them over an open fire, then feed them to my pack. I climbed into my limo and Elliot was behind me, and once he had Victor on the phone, he handed his cell to me.
“What can you tell me about this human rebel group?” I asked Victor.
“Boss, their leader is Dante Forester, he’s a half breed. His father was Vincent Forester,” Victor said.
Ahh, I’d killed Vincent five years ago because he was stupid enough to steal from me. I didn’t even know he had a son. I wondered if he did? “Why am I just now hearing about this?”
“Because I wasn’t so sure it was Dante at first, Boss. He’s a half-breed. I was trying to recruit him into the pack, but he wasn’t interested. He came by for some money two days ago and I gave him some, and today your businesses were bombed. I think he used the money I gave him to do it.”
“I should kill you for allowing his half-breed ass to run loose in my city without informing me,” I snapped.
“Please, Alpha, please. I thought I could talk some sense into him and bring him into the pack. I only wanted to bring you quality stock. Plus, Dante and I grew up together. We are friends, I was human and thought he was human that whole time too. Then we lost touch and only recently did he come back into my life and as a wolf now, I knew what he was. This all happened so fast, Boss. I swear, I meant no disrespect,” Victor said in his defense.
I did like quality stock, and a half-breed like Dante would be just that. But even if I were to take him into my pack, I’d have to make him suffer first. Which would, no doubt, make him my enemy. He might be a problem later. Best to just kill him.
“Tell you how you can make it up to me. When he comes to you again, put a team on him. I want to know his every whereabouts, do you understand? Keep your distance, I just want to know where he goes. You do that, and I might have a reward for you,” I said.
“You’ve got it, Boss.”
“Good. And Victor?”
“Yes, Boss?”
“Don’t ever keep anything from me again, do you understand?”
There was a pause where I heard him swallow. “Yes, Boss, I understand.”
I ended the call and told my driver to take me to Orion so I could check on my businesses. My tattoo was still burning as it healed, but I was too fucking pissed to care. “Son of a bitch,” I growled.
“We’ll catch the motherfucker, Boss, don’t worry,” Elliot said.
“Oh, I don’t doubt that. And when I do, he’s going to wish he was never born.”
Oh, Dante had done a number on my businesses. I visited all three and it was going to take months to rebuild. At least three million dollars in damages and loss, and I was still fuming over losing five wolves, one of them over a century old. The bomb literally blew them to pieces, body parts all over the place. That was how powerful the bomb had been. No way could I let this stand. I had to make an example out of Dante when I finally had his ass.
A few more days passed before I got a lead on Dante. As Victor has predicted, the fool came back for more money. I was going to close in on him tonight when he was together with his entire crew. I wanted to wipe them all out at once and broadcast their extremely painful executions. I was going over the plan with Elliot when there was a knock on my office door.
“Come in,” I called out.
The door opened and Horacio entered. Like me, he’d taken a liking to tattoos and piercings and had flames going down the side of his bald head, and a nose ring. He was as tall as Elliot was, maybe taller by an inch. Six-nine when he was wearing boots. Impressive and a badass motherfucker, packed and sealed. I’d put him in control of the reconstruction of my restaurant, because that had taken the most damage and I wanted it up and running as fast as possible and making me money again. It was one of my favorite places to eat, for fuck’s sake.
“I’ve got a message from the vampires, Boss,” Horacio said.
Well, now that was interesting. What in the fuck did the vampires want from or with me? “What do they want?”
“First off, I didn’t know they could walk around in the daytime. That shit blew my mind, Boss.”
“Was it Théoden?” I’d never met the vampire-dragon hybrid face-to-face. Seeing him on television was impressive enough, if I was honest. I also wouldn’t mind seeing his lips wrapped around my cock either. Those sexy gray eyes of his looking up at me as I shoot my load down his throat. A wolf could fantasize.
He shook his head. “No, it was two of his sons. The big motherfucker like me and the one he turned last week on TV.”
I had seen Théoden during the day one time when he was in Orion, so I knew he could, but I didn’t know about his sons. Interesting. I was learning more and more about what made him so powerful. I’d love to have that kind of power on my side. But what in the fuck did he want with me?
“What’s the message?”
“His messengers wouldn’t say. They just wanted to meet with you. I even told them I was your second in hopes of getting them to tell me, but they wouldn’t, Boss,” Horacio said.
Elliot laughed. “You told them you were me?”
Horacio shrugged with a smirk. “Didn’t think it would hurt, Sir.”
“I hope you don’t go around pretending to be me any other time,” Elliot said.
Horacio shook his head emphatically. “No, no, never, Sir.”
I heard their conversation, but I was more intrigued by this meeting Théoden wanted to have with me. “What else did they say?”
Horacio looked at me, his hazel eyes were pretty and almost unfitting for the rest of his look. “They said you could even name the place as long as it’s in Orion, Boss.” He walked over to me, handing me a white card. “He gave me this and said for you to call him when you have a place and time.”
I took the card from him and looked at it. Just a number, and one I didn’t recognize. I decided to wait a bit before I called the number. I wanted them to sweat it out wondering if I was going to accept the meeting. Théoden wanted it in Orion, but I was thinking about demanding he allow me into his territory. If he agreed, then that only meant he needs something from me so badly, he was willing to risk allowing wolves into his territory. With that much leverage, I had something to bargain with. As a matter of fact, I’d add even more pressure by cutting the time close. If Théoden also gave in to that, I’d know I had him right where I wanted him.
“I’ll call later and Horacio, you will be accompanying me along with Gray, Frederick, Tom, and Johan,” I said.
Horacio nodded. “Yes, Boss, I’ll get them ready.”
I nodded and he left, leaving me in the room with Elliot. My second smiled. “What are you planning Boss?”
“Me?”
He laughed. “Oh yeah, I see gears turning in that skull of yours, Boss.”
“Oh, nothing special. Just business as usual.”
He laughed harder. “Now, I know you have a plan, Boss.”
“Once I find out what this meeting is about, I will know what to do.” I looked at my watch, it was going to take five hours at least for me to get to Théoden’s home. Best hit the road now. H
ere I come, vampire… I hope you make it worth my while.
The End… not really, this is a prequel after all. And you can continue this amazing paranormal saga with Chained in Darkness: New Haven Series, Season One available for free at Smashwords. The remaining season, beginning with House of Theoden where Deacon makes his intro can be found on Amazon and with Kindle Unlimited.
Please visit my website for more information
WWW.NICHOLASBELLA.COM
Deacon Page 24
