The dark lover....

chapter 05

Darius appeared across the club, taking in the teeming, half-n***d bodies on the dance floor. Screamer’s turned into packed this night, complete of women carrying leather and men who looked like they'd advanced tiers in violent crime. Darius and his partner match proper in. Except they surely had been killers.“So you’re really going to do that?” Tohrment requested him. Darius glanced throughout the shallow desk. The other vampire’s eyes met his own. “Yeah. I am.”

Tohrment nursed his Scotch and smiled grimly. Only the very recommendations of his

fangs confirmed. “You’re loopy, D.”“You must recognize.”Tohrment tilted his glass in deference. “But you’re elevating the bar. You need to take an harmless girl, who has no idea what the hell she’s stepping into, and positioned her transition in the fingers of a person like Wrath. That’s whacked."“He isn’t evil. In spite of the manner he appears.”Darius finished his beer. “And

display a bit respect”. “I admire the hell out of him. But it’s a awful concept”.“I need him.”

“You certain approximately that?”A woman wearing a micromini, thigh-high boots, and a bustier fabricated from chains trolled via their desk. Her eyes glittered from at the back of kilos of mascara, and she worked her stroll as if her hips had been double-jointed. Darius gave her a bypass. s*x changed into now not on his mind this night.“She’s my daughter, Tohr.”“She’s a half-breed, D. And you know the way he feels approximately people.”Tohrment shook his head. “My notable-wonderful-grandmother changed into one, and you don’t see me yakking that up around him.”Darius lifted his hand to seize their waitress’s eye and pointed at his emptybottle and Tohrment’s almost dry glass. “I’m not going to permit every other one among my children die. Not if there’s a possibility I can keep her. And besides, there’s no telling whether or not she’ll even go through the change. She should end up dwelling a happy lifestyles, by no means understanding approximately my side. It’s came about earlier than.”And he hoped his daughter might be spared. Because if she went through her transition, if she came out alive on the opposite side as a vampire, she became going to be hunted as they all were. “Darius, if he does it at all, he’ll do it due to the fact he owes you. Not due to the fact he wants to”. “I’ll take him any way I can get him”.“But what are you giving her? He’s approximately as nurturing as sawed-off, and that first time can be rough, even in case you’ve been organized. Which she hasn’t”.“I’m going to speak to her.” “And how’s that going to move? You’re just going to walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, I know you’ve never seen me earlier than, but I’m your dad. Oh, and bet what? You’ve gained the evolutionary lottery: You’re a vampire. Let’s visit Disney land! “I hate you right now.”

Tohrment leaned forward, his thick shoulders moving beneath black leather. “You realize I were given your lower back. I’m simply wondering you should reconsider.” There become a heavy pause. “Maybe I thought to do it.”Darius shot him a dry look. “You need to attempt to get again into your private home after the reality? Wellsie will stake you thru the coronary heart and go away you for the sun, my friend.” Tohrment winced. “Good factor.” “And then she’ll come searching out me.” Both adult males shuddered. “Besides…” Darius leaned again because the waitress positioned their liquids down. He waited till she left, even though hard-core rap was pumping all round them.

“Besides, we’re dwelling in dangerous times. If some thing occurs to me—” “I’ll take care of her.” Darius clapped his friend on the shoulder. “I recognise you will.” “But Wrath is higher.” There changed into no jealousy inside the remark. It become a declaration of reality. “There’s no person like him.” “And thank God for that,” Tohrment said with a 1/2 smile. Their band of brothers, a decent circle of robust-backed warriors who traded

statistics and fought collectively, have been of the equal opinion. Wrath turned into off the chain when it came to the commercial enterprise of vengeance, and he hunted their enemieswith a single-minded purpose that bordered on the insane. He became the final of his line, the handiest purebred vampire left in the world, and although his race revered.