Despite his suspicions, when Andrew found out he wasn't a vampire his world turned upside down. Not so much because he wasn't, but because it wasn't his real family. He felt like one of them, even though he was always in the shadow of the rest of the clan, living his life practically as a human. He never participated in the group's hunting expeditions because Zander wouldn't let him, claiming as a justification that he was not like the rest, that is, he was not a "renegade" in need of blood, and that made him leave aside his concerns and questions, although most of the time he wanted to do it fervently, perhaps because of his lycanthropic hunting instinct. The few times he interacted with the clan it was to carry out Zander's orders and wishes, either by moving them around or controlling possible unauthorized activities imposed by him.Of course, he was recognized as the highest rank after Zander, who introduced him to the clan as his son, and where despite the fact that everyone knew
Norma had left to start watching over Dan when he left for work around eight in the morning. To her surprise, he didn't leave at that time, but was arriving. Apart from being surprised for arriving at that time, she was also surprised that he arrived without his car, entering his building through the main entrance. She quickly got out of the car and followed him into the lobby, stopping him at the elevator entrance. Dan was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and Norma immediately noticed the wounds on his arms, which had almost disappeared, but were still somewhat visible.“Party night?” she asked him, pretending not to have seen the wounds. “I hope it was good for you to come back at this time.”Dan looked her up and down, thinking: this cop is asking me to get home at this time? Who does she thinks she is? My girlfriend? Amazing!“I hope you're not offended, detective,” Dan emphasized the word detective, “but I guess it's n
Suspecting that she might have a solid lead on her hands, Norma returned to the station to do some research on the man who was following Dan, and also on the address he went to in the cab. She took advantage of the fact that Mark and Doris were also there to help her investigate.“The facial recognition program doesn't give a definitive result,” said Mark, when the program had finished. “I knew that would happen because we only have half of his face, but I still wanted to try.”“And how many possible results does it show?” Norma asked.“You don't want to know,” Mark replied. “What have you found out about the address?”“The owner is a certain Anatoli Margorov, a Russian national, but something is not right here”, said Norma.“What do you mean?” Doris asked, coming up to her with Mark.“I have a copy of the registry of the house, and this Margorov guy ap
Norma found nothing amiss in the identification records of Zander and Andrew Udimov. Zander was of Romanian origin, while Andrew was born in the United States. It only remained to find out why the house was not in Zander's name. That would be done more calmly later. Now she had to follow Dan Ranlone again, and see if anyone else besides her followed him again.As he had been doing for days, Dan did not go to work. He wanted to stay home until his wounds healed so he would not have to explain himself to his co-workers. But he was also looking forward to finishing recovering to start his search for Brook again, and incidentally take revenge for the trap that had been set for him and that left him in that state. It was obvious that Zander already wanted to get his hands on him to find out about his hybrid condition, but since he did not succeed then his second option was to eliminate him. His father had promised to talk to Zander one more time to try to keep the peace, but he wa
“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.”“