“What the hell happened?” Christopher asked, quite scared when he saw that Jerome entered his house with Dan in his arms.
Jerome didn't know at first where to take Dan. If he took him to a hospital they might find out that he wasn't a normal human being, so he decided to take him to Christopher's. Anyway, he was also some kind of doctor and had already rescued the alpha's son from the hands of death.
“They shot him!” Jerome said, distraught. “It was a trap! They shot him! I couldn't do anything!”
“He barely has a pulse,” Christopher said as he checked Dan quickly. “Let's take him to the lab right now!”
Once in the lab, Christopher could see that the bullet had passed through Dan's chest, entering and exiting cleanly, rupturing two rib cartilages, compromising a lung, and passing very close to the heart by a scant centimeter. Fortunately, he had not damaged any arteries or the sternum. He dedicate
Darius was meeting at Christopher's house with Jerome and Brandon, the two best warriors in his pack. He had summoned them to refine the details of the plan he had in mind to take revenge for what they had done to his son. More than a revenge plan, it was a war plan, since he considered that with this last action by Zander, the peace pact had been irretrievably broken.Of course, they agreed with hostile actions against vampires, especially on the part of Jerome, who still hadn't gotten rid of the thorn despite the fact that two days had passed since the attack on Dan.“They have progressed a lot”, Darius was telling them. “Now they can withstand sunlight, so we can have battles during the day as well. What was an advantage for us now is not.”“I am prepared to face them any day, any time,” Jerome said. “You don't know how much I want to face them!”“I'm ready too,” Brandon agreed. “This af
After two days of fruitless waiting, Norma gave up. She hadn't seen Dan leave his house in those two days and she was considering stopping following him and looking for new leads. To make sure everything was okay with him, she went up to his apartment and knocked on the door and rang the bell several times, with no answer. Has he gone under cover of night to some other place? Will he be at his uncle's house?She decided to go to the Dan's uncle's house to find out if he was there or not. When she arrived she found that there was movement in the place. She saw Darius and two other men enter the house. It shouldn't come as a surprise that this man visited his brother, but what about those other two men? Who were they? Why hadn't she seen Dan in the last two days? Her instincts told her something was happening and she wanted to find out what it was.“¿Now I'm getting Roy's hunches?” She taught sadly.She got out of the car and went to the house,
The tracking and location groups did their job and already had the location of the "nest" settled on the land of the Ranlone property. Apparently it was the one that Dan had discovered days ago in the abandoned cabin and where that police detective had been bitten. The group of vampires that made it up had moved further north, to the limits of the property and another private property, evading the police search.“Are they underground again?” Darius asked upon having the report.“A part of the tunnel communicates with a small nearby hillside,” Jerome replied, “where they have a hidden entrance to a cave.”“Are you sure it's the entrance?”“Very sure, sir. One of the trackers saw several of them enter there last night when they came from hunting; he followed them but didn't go very far, since he was getting lower and lower and feared that they would set him up a trap. But he's sure.”“
The group of at least ten patrol cars were after Mark and Doris's car headed for Zander Udimov's house. Norma was with them in the back seat. She felt that they finally had a solid lead to follow to find the vampires, Brooke Daniels, and now Dan Ranlone. After seeking the search warrant with the judge, she reminded Captain Mulligan of the murdered and butchered vampires she had found, and he agreed that they bring backup. Lots of reinforcements.She still wondered who were the ones who found that "food collection center" for the vampires in the funeral home and put them on alert. Maybe they were the same ones who murdered and slaughtered all those vampires in the alley and on the Ranlone cabin grounds.Until that moment they had only focused on finding the girl and the vampires. They would also have to be looking for whoever was decimating them and now exposing their food sources.They arrived at Zander's house and Norma quickly got out of the car to go open the door herself. After he
Andrew had been sitting in the interrogation room for half an hour without saying a word. Norma was with him, while Mark and Doris watched through the glass.“Everyone in that house was vampire, except you,” Norma told him, trying again to get him to say something. “How is it possible that you are the son of a vampire, and not a vampire at the same time? Maybe you were adopted. That would surprise me a lot What idiot would give a child for adoption to a vampire? Forgive me if I'm suddenly rambling, but there's a lot going on in my head right now. And since you don't want to say anything… You see, several policemen died there and someone has to assume those deaths. If we can't find your "father," then we'll charge you as co-responsible, because you live there too.”Andrew looked up, meeting Norma's.“You can't do that,” Andrew told her, staring at her. “You know I wasn't there when it all happened.”&l
Just three hundred meters away from Zander's house, is the luxurious mansion of a millionaire named Wendell Donaldson. Donaldson was known for being the millionaire's millionaire lawyer, solving their toughest problems and making them huge amounts of money by advising them on investments in every possible area, from real estate to the stock market. No one knew how he managed to make his clients’ money, but he did it.They also did not know that Donaldson was not human.It was actually a demon named Luzcaefel, a very powerful one, who planned to reign over the earth.Not at the moment, but he was creating the conditions for it in the not too distant future.He had met Zander when he came to the United States from Romania. He knew what day he would arrive and on what ship and he waited for him at the exact time of his arrival. Zander would eventually be useful to his plans, and he sought to earn his loyalty and devotion.He arranged everything
Alarmed by the disturbance, the neighbors called the police and within minutes several patrol cars were at Christopher's house. Norma arrived minutes later, after Mark and Doris woke her up to tell her that another bunch of dead vampires had turned up in one of the Ranlones' houses.“Where's the owner?” Norma asked Mark and Doris once she had entered the house and checked that there is no one but the destroyed vampires everywhere.“It doesn't show up,” Mark replied. “Maybe he was kidnapped too.”“I'm tired of seeing this scene,” Norma said. “There's definitely someone doing this, and we don't have a damn clue who it might be.”“This is the second member of the Ranlone to be involved in any way with vampires,” Doris said. “I'm already beginning to doubt the story that they are attacked for trying to get the boy's girlfriend back. Something else is going on here.”&ld
After taking three or four more puffs of air, Christopher fell unconscious. At least he was breathing, and that was a good sign. Darius refocused his attention on his brother, returning to his original form.“What was that you injected him?” Dan asked Dansk.“When Zander adopted your puppy, he asked me to do some things,” Dansk began to explain. “One of them was to make him immune to our venom, in case one of his servants or a "renegade" were to bite him, whether by accident or not. After much trial and error I managed to synthesize an antidote that apparently works. That's what I injected him.”“You had an antidote and didn't give it to me when one of the Dansk vampires bit me?” Dan asked, annoyed.“Christopher and I promised not to use our investigations to harm us,” Dansk explained.“Well, it doesn't seem like it, because by not giving me the antidote I became something that is ki
Sitting on a bench facing the Hudson River Bay, Norma watched the river and its surroundings, thinking. It had been a shock to her to know that Dan was the dangerous creature they were looking for and he had caused so much damage to the vampires. She now understood Zander's stubbornness with him and the attacks he made on them. She was trying to assimilate how someone who was apparently so timid and peaceful could turn into something so dangerous and fierce, although in her mind anything was possible, especially after everything she had seen throughout her career. She really shouldn't be so surprised, although she was having a hard time accepting her new reality, especially when she was feeling so in love with him.Absorbed in her thoughts, she felt someone sit next to her, but she didn't flinch, thinking it was some stranger. What she least wanted was to have a forced conversation with someone, so she thought about leaving.“I'd like to explain my reasons why I
It was Dansk, who strangely hadn't died with Zander like the other vampires. Recognizing him, Norma pointed at him, but Dansk didn't seem to care.“He's your brother,” Dansk repeated. “Zander raised him from a young age. He is the son of Darius and Amira, given to seal a peace pact many years ago.”Dan looked at Andrew, who was staring at him and apparently crying. He was giving up fighting to get free.“Zander never told you, Andrew,” Dansk walked over to them and put a hand on Dan's arm. “Although you knew you were a wolf, he never told you whose son you were, and now I tell you, I accompanied him in your upbringing. He is your brother.”“It's the truth,” Darius said from the entrance door, everyone turned again towards the newcomer, even more surprised to see that the naked guy in front of them and that they knew, recognized that he was a wolf.Norma lowered her gun slowly and then sat
Zander was as always in his dark room, thinking about the way to finally finish off the hybrid, when there was a light knock on the door. It was Andrew, who after opening the door entered and stood in front of him.“One of the 'marauders' has just arrived,” he said to his father, “he brought a message from the alpha's son.”Zander stared at him. Despite the darkness, Andrew could see a faint glimmer in his gray eyes.“And what is that message?” He asked with a cold voice.“He wants to end all of this at once. You and him. Alone, with no one else. He challenges you to face him, if you dare.”“He's very bold,” Zander said, annoyed. “"It's very bold," said Zander, annoyed. He knows he has an advantage for being what he is.”“You won't dare face him, will you?”“I have to do it, my integrity and honor are at stake, but he won't believe I'll do
Norma gradually moved away from Dan. He wanted to keep kissing her but he didn't want to force her if she didn't want it, so he let her pull away from her.“Sorry, I didn't…” Dan awkwardly tried to apologize, as she took two steps back.“We shouldn't…” Norma said timidly. “You are the subject of an investigation and I am not...”Hearing that, Dan frowned.“Investigation?” He asked her, between annoyed and confused. “Is that what I am to you? I thought you felt...”“I didn't mean it that way!” interrupted Norma serenely. “It's that I'm a police officer, and you know it. I shouldn't get involved with you, at least until the investigation is over or we catch the vampire leader.”“Please don't think that way. You know I'm a victim in all of this, just like Brooke was...”Pronouncing her name made Dan feel homesick and sad, but he didn't want that to interfere with what he was feeling for Norma right now. He had loved Brooke very much, but she was gone, and he needed to get over her so she
During the night the healing process of Dan's wound, although slow, progressed enough to reduce the size of the wound, although there was still some pain and it was not closing completely. At dawn only the barely open and reddish furrows remained, and Amira was calmer when she saw the improvement.But the one most interested in healing completely was Dan himself, who had spoken to Norma again the night before, leaving Norma to pay him another visit the next morning after she reported to the station, and was quite anxious to see her again.His father and uncle had also arranged to visit him again, who went to his house early, Darius then going to the office after verifying that he was improving with the passing of the hours. Dan took the opportunity to ask his uncle why his now slow improvement. They were sitting on stools in the walk-in kitchen opposite Amira, who was making breakfast.“Wolves have an accelerated wound healing process” began to expla
Shortly after Christopher and Amira arrived and took care of Dan, Norma decided to leave. Amira asked her to stay a little longer but she refused, arguing that she had to see her partner for work reasons. She was surprised that her mother was so attentive to her, and ended up assuming that she was in gratitude for having helped her son when he was attacked hours before.“If you need anything, please let me know,” Norma said to Amira as she handed over one of her cards.“Thank you, Detective. We will take it into account,” Amira replied.When she left the apartment, Norma thought that it was not wise to have offered help to that family, unless they were in danger. She had already done it anyway and hoped that if Dan needed her in any way he would turn to her.Back at the station, she saw that Erick was already waiting for her outside, ready to start surveillance.“There will be no surveillance,” she told him after
Dan hoped his ability to regenerate would help him prove to Norma that the wound was indeed superficial and did not pose a great risk to him. When they got to his apartment, he quickly went into the bathroom, took a small first aid kit and took out a piece of gauze with which he began to dry the blood that flowed from his wounds. He also applied some alcohol to disinfect it and almost howled in pain. The wounds were still very open, despite the fact that the regeneration process had begun.“Come on!” he exclaimed looking at the wounds. “I don't want her to see me like this…”“Are you Ok?” Norma asked from the door, somewhat worried.“Yes, I'm Ok. Like I told you, it's not a big deal. I almost out…” Dan pulled out more gauze and applied it to the wound with more alcohol, then bandaged it. At least he was already stopping the bleeding a little. The pain was almost unbearable.He stripped off the rest of his bloody clothes and tossed them on the floor, put on a robe and went outside. Nor
The vampires escaped through the basement windows of the abandoned house and returned to Zander to be assigned a new lair where they could hide. They were two young men, between sixteen and twenty years old. They couldn't talk to him, since Andrew, who was on his way out, asked them why they were in that house if it was forbidden, and even more so if it wasn't Zander's; they told him the police had gone to search the abandoned house and they had no choice but to flee the place. Andrew thought he had no more hiding places where he could take them, except for the only one they had left in the woods but it was very far, already entering Pennsylvania, and it was reserved for the wildest "renegades". He would have to hide them in the gardens of Donaldson's property but without Zander finding out, since he would mercilessly banish them, but before that he asked them to accompany him to pay a "visit" to someone.“Excuse me, Master Andrew, but the membrane is about to expire,&r
After speaking with Zander, Andrew sought out Dansk at the house where he was hiding to get the address of the alpha's son. He couldn't help feeling intrigued by the unexpected request, and he hesitated before answering.“I heard he is dead,” he answered. “He died in the explosion along with the girl. Or not?”“If I'm asking you for his address it's because obviously we know he's not dead,” Andrew told him. “Haven't you heard about the latest events?”Dansk just looked at him, still intrigued.“He's alive, Dansk. This morning he took down a few of our people again, destroyed a group of "marauders" in the center.”Dansk had spent the last few days locked up and was convinced that Dan had been killed in the latest attack on Zander. He didn't want to go see his friend Christopher because he felt embarrassed and didn't want to see him face to face. He felt some relief knowing that the boy was still alive, but now with Andrew asking for his address he thought Zander wouldn't give up and tr