CHAPTER 57: POWER OF ROYALTY
Dominic’s POV
“Alright Ryan. What is it ?”, I asked my Beta as I burst open the swinging doors and barged inside the room where all my men were waiting for me.
I already had a bad feeling about it.
Especially when the hair along my nape rose.
The vibe was just not right.
I was the Vampire King and I could sense danger better and stronger than others.
Whatever lay on the other side of the door was making my heart race furiously and my mind was already screaming “Noooooo !!!!” as my synapses quickly relayed the deductions it made from my primary senses’ judgement.
Oh good Lord, for the first time in my life, please let my powers be wrong.
Please, please, please.
Otherwise I was going to be devastated.
“The Dark Overlord said- “Hello Son !”, Domz”, Ryan said as he handed me a note that said the exact same phrase- “Hello Son !” and there was a small cubical box sitting on the table- the object of my dread.
I looked up at Ryan who was busy staring at the note in my hand and I shook my head in dismay at how our lives were going to change again in a few seconds.
“GUARDS !”, I yelled authoritatively. “CAGE THE BETA NOW !! DON’T LET HIM GO TILL I TELL YOU TO !”, I ordered in my Alpha voice and soon enough a thrashing Beta Vampire was held by eight guards and shoved into a cage somehow.
“What the fuck, Dominic !!”, Ryan screamed at the top of his voice as he curled his fingers around the cage. “Why are you doing this ? Get me out of here !!”, he demanded.
“I am sorry, Ryan”, I cried as I wrapped my hand on top of his.
“Wha- What do y- you mean, D- Dominic ?”, his voice suddenly dropped low and became shaky with worry.
“Please take heart and stay strong, Ryan”, I said with tears constantly gushing down my face by now. “I am already- …. oh god, I can sense it”, my mouth wobbled.
“What can you sense, Domz ? You are making me worried”, Ryan replied as he took my head in his arms and stroked my hair softly, just like he used to do when we were children and I would suddenly miss having parents of my own on seeing other kids with theirs.
“I HATE HIM”, I spoke through gritted teeth and my mind seemed to be already reciting a string of curses for the goddamn bastard.
“We all do, Dominic but what is bringing all this on ?”, Ryan asked worriedly.
“GUARDS ! OPEN THE BOX !!”, I choked out and when the box opened, Ryan’s world came crashing down and so did mine.
“AAAHHHHHGGGG !!!!!”, Ryan screamed.
Dominic’s POV
Before Ryan could fall smashing his head, Kai was already breaking through the iron bars and catching his fainting figure while Bella was nestling my larger frame in her comforting embrace.
“How did you know tha- …. “, I began tearfully but Bella hushed me quiet as she kept her index finger on my lips and helped me sit on the couch.
“The mate link. Your emotions were all over the place”, she answered and that explained a lot many questions.
“Ryan ! Ryan ! RYAN !!”, Kai screamed as Ryan suddenly went feral and mad with sorrow. Hence the cage but Kai was doing a far better job of subduing the broken biological son of my dead foster mother.
Yes. Dead. She was dead !
“Please wrap the head with a royal silken cloth with respect and try to retrieve the rest of her body too, if you can”, Bella softly ordered to a nearby warrior. “But don’t cross the coven borders if you can’t find it and please inform everyone that the revered seer will be cremated tomorrow morning.
“Yes, Your Highness”, the warrior bowed and left us behind.
“I am so sorry for your loss. She was a mother to all of us”, my Gamma woefully said as he gripped my shoulder with a supportive squeeze. “You guys rest and leave everything on me for some time. Let me investigate this thoroughly and get back to you all. Try to keep a clear head however. The Dark Overlord might take advantage of our vulnerable and emotional state”, he cautioned.
“Thank you, Dylan. Just give me a head count of the people who are safe in here and the number of people working outside the coven. We don’t want a repeat of this”, I replied and the Gamma set to work immediately after bowing.
“I am going to take Ryan to his room. Could you please show me his quarters”, Kai asked a warrior before he carried away my dead beat, unconscious Beta in his arms.
“This way, Sir !”
Bella helped me all the way back to our room, changed my clothes as I stared at nothing lifelessly and tucked me beside her.
“I will miss you, Mother”, one son thought awake and the other in his subconsciousness.
“Don’t miss me, dear boys. You two shall have to stay strong for the coven and what is coming for you. I believe in you two. Don’t let my teachings go waste”, the spirited soul smiled.
Don’t let the blackness of sorrow consume you, especially when you feel that you are left lonely and the world is falling apart coz there will be someone special waiting for you- someone who shall bring back the lost light in your life.
Love.
Love will either strengthen you or break you.
And it was the first scenario in Ryan’s case.
Kai’s POV
“Zeke. What the fuck now ?”
“One does not say hi’s, the other does not believe in byes. We should have been twins instead of cousins”, Zeke grunted from the other end of the line. I swear I am gonna kill him, even though I swore to protect him.
Our Beta fathers had been real brothers. Zeke’s Dad was a fucking a-hole who had joined forces with the Dark Lord when my father got the Royal Beta position and that fucker, out of sheer jealousy had ratted out the entire pack’s secrets to become the Royal Beta instead.
The fucking bastard had made Zeke’s life hell along with the Dark Lord and it was absolutely horrifying to know what he had done to his own son !!
It was a lucky coincidence that I had found a bleeding Zeke by the road side one time and had rushed him to the hospital.
We had been in touch since then and accidentally figured out that we were first cousins !!
Talk about fate !
Now, Karma was going to bite them in the ass really hard through Zeke and I was going to keep my secret weapon a secret till the end, no matter what.
“Why are you calling me on a freaking Sunday at 5 ridiculous am, asshat ?”, I barked.
“I am at the legal department of your uni. I don’t freaking know why is my Beta Lycan adamant on sleeping here. He just peed on one of the fucking lockers to mark his fucking territory and that is not even the grossest thing that happened. He licked it clean and scented that particular locker too !!”, Zeke whined. Eww ! Gross.
Leave it to this stupid brat to do the stupidest shit possible at ungodly hours. Grrrrr.
“Go and hump against the locker then. I don’t fucking care. Lemme sleep”, I irately growled before tugging my princess close to my chest sleepily.
“That is what I am doing and I need help !”, he pleaded desperately. What ?! What the fucking hell !! “I am going mad. I feel like killing my own Lycan for the first time”, Zeke sobbed and that made me jump out of the bed instantly.
Crap !
I almost crashed into the side table.
Ah dammit ! My pinky toe just banged into it. It fucking hurts. Shit.
“God, you are such a trouble brewing asshole, Zeke. Stay there and get decent before I arrive there to fetch you. I really don’t want to see my brother’s small d*ck and feel even worse for you, than I already do”, I replied making Zeke’s Lycan to growl back at me.
“Nothing can be smaller than yours, dumb jerk. Come and help me, A – fucking – SAP”, Zeke hissed and suddenly went into ballistic horny mood.
“Oh ! Aa- aaahhhhh !! Oh my !! Yeah ! This smells so good”, he suddenly moaned and that was my cue to quickly click my phone shut, without any goodbye bidding pleasantries ofcourse, before I was scarred by my brother’s mast*rbating noises.
Quickly, shimming into my ass tight jeans and tee, I toed my feet into my canvasses somehow and raced down the halls to get into Dominic’s car.
As far as I remembered Dominic usually gave the keys to the royal valet. Hopefully, he did the same this time too. I didn’t remember coming to this place afterall.
“Going somewhere, mate ?”, a dark voice suddenly asked with arms crossed against his chest.
I gulped involuntarily when I saw the tall, majestic figure dash in front of me in his vampiric speed, before I averted my guilty eyes away from him.
I did not want to lie to my mate but I did not want to rat my secret out too.
I wasn’t kidding when I said that Zeke was going to stay a secret till the end.
“I gotta go. Important meeting”, I replied curtly.
“Looks like you are breaking curfew and hence, my orders. Do you want to get punished, pup ?”, Dominic asked with a dark face, his jaw clenched.
God, I did not have time for this.
Zeke and his Beta Lycan were doing God knows what all and I could not risk any uni staff or authorities catching him for indecent behaviour or for doing any other inappropriate stuff, even before he joined the institution !
The Dark Lord would have his head himself and it was blooming clear that Zeke’s effing wolf had found his mate’s essence in the legal department and going bat shit crazy just like that.
With time of essence and my patience wearing thin- who won’t when you hardly slept due to all the freaking drama going on and woke up prematurely at 5 fucking am in the morning with a banging headache- I decided to play it dirty.
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I am in a frigging hurry and you are in the way.
Whoops !
“Hey DomDom ! Look out !! Over there !”, I exclaimed while making a freaked out face.
The trick worked as smooth as butter on mashed potatoes, when Dominic looked towards my pointing finger.
One karate chop by the side of his neck, and his air was already knocking out of him and making life at 5 am relatively easier for me.
“Alright Zeke. You better have a home and extra bed for me. My mate is going to eat me up otherwise”, I whistled before zooming away to my brother’s rescue.
Third Person POV
“What do we do now, M’ Lord ? That wretched seer tricked us. She sent us all on a wild goose chase. She suddenly created a portal out of nowhere on the ship and sent her boxed head with your note in it and then died in our arms in the middle of the Pacific Ocean”, the Commander of the villainous Dark Army informed.
“What did you do with her body, doll face ?”, the Dark Lord asked- too politely for his own good.
“We brought it back here in a coffin box, Sir”, the Commander replied, slightly miffed at the nickname given by the Dark Lord.
However, he knew better that his life was hanging by a thread here.
None of his soldiers were ready to face their Supreme Master’s wrath by breaking this news to him. Death in the hands of the Commander was more acceptable than that of the Dark Overlord and going for the former option was saying a lot in itself.
“Very well. So you really did bring upon a curse on us, YOU FUCKING SCHMUCK !!!!”, the Dark Overlord suddenly roared out.
“I- I don’t un- understand, M’ Lord”, the trembling man said, bewildered by the words just uttered out by the Dark Lord’s mouth.
“Bring back the corpse of a dead seer was prohibited in the prophecy !! Then why the fuck did you bring it back ? Don’t you see what YOU FUCKING DID ?”, the Dark Overlord suddenly raised his voice and punched his best warrior in the gut.
The anger and frustration built in him had taken the physical manifestation of a punch and soon enough the victim was choking on his own blood.
“You just triggered the prophesy, Cinderella”, the Dark Lord gruffed before delivering the final blow.
* SMASH *