CARMINE POV With a groan I make my eyes open when the phone next to the bed starts to blare out the most obnoxious ring tone, wait, ringtone, what the hell? Trying to move to the side of the bed with a little more urgency in my movements. Picking up the phone I notice that it is only just five a.m. “Hello!” I answered the shitful thing, happy when the noise stopped, but the words that followed stopped my grumbling fast. “Sire Carmine, th…. th…. th….. there’s been a pr……. pr…… pr….. problem, its, your brother!” the guards voice timid, I figure he is concerned that he will get the blame for anything that has happened, they don’t realise I know what Gabriel is like. I dismiss the call, telling them I will be there momentarily. I decide I would take the quick way; I shift and jump out the

