Captured By A Ruthless Vampire King
|68| ~ An Important Business Matter ~

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Cyrus POV.

Luscious in media.

During, Cyrus’s brief departure.

My mating night has been hell and it turns out that I will soon have to pay the price for all my sins.

Sike, but I have surely been delivered to evil.

Instead of enjoying my beloved on what’s supposed to be the happiest night of our lives, I’ve been forced to deal with a lot of hellish situations.

For starters, I have been annoyingly entertained by no one other than, Count Clown. Yes, he’s here and he decided to bring the whole got damn entire circus along with him. This fool had the audacity to march on my territory to demand that I sign some got damn peace treaty between Lycan’s, Werewolves, and us Kings.

Now, don’t get me wrong I did indeed read the treaty, just out of pure curiosity and I’m glad that I did because it turns out that the treaty will be extremely beneficial, especially where Embry and I are involved, and I must it admit that it took me by surprise once I read it. Claire’s doing I suppose because it’s no way that I’ll ever believe that either of my so-called brothers could have ever come up with anything of the sort.

In more pacifically, the part concerning the matter of a vampire king and a member from the werewolves, or Lycan community having to honor the treaty by sealing the deal with a union and I’m most certainly sure that, that was all Claire.

Checkmate.

It appears that Claire is queen material after all and I owe her one, again. So, I will sign the treaty maybe tomorrow, the day after, or maybe the day after that. I don’t know. I’ll sign when I feel like it and that’s exactly what I told Count Clown.

Who the hell does he think that he is to demand that I do anything? Fucking, clown but that was just the first of my ticket ride to hell.

After, that I was once again forced to deal with a clown and his circus performance, who happens to be my third, fourth, or maybe fifth cousin I don’t know. His relation by blood doesn’t matter to me and never did. Blood doesn’t make you family, loyalty does and this unloyal piece of shit so sadly thought that he could disrespect my beloved.

Can you say tortured? Literally.

Overall, that matter was dealt with quite quickly, if I do say so myself and let just say that he won’t be around to visit the family on the holidays for a very long time.

Once, that nightmare was over I was finally making my way back to my beloved while thinking about what I was gonna do to her sweet little body tonight when suddenly an intense pain in my chest or more like ass roared throughout my entire body and nope it wasn’t Marcellus.

It’s Luscious. He’s here, coincidentally and it sucks. Out of all days, he decides to just stroll through my territory, unannounced. He never does that. Ever.

This is why I have to deal with him, unfortunately. It’s apart of our King code of conduct if one of our brothers enters our territory unannounced that we have to deal with them right away just in case it’s an emergency.

So, here I stand currently in one of my private studies dealing with him.

“I don’t approve of your choice of bride,” spits out Luscious the very moment that he take a seat into one of the many black leather chairs in my office like I give a fuck.

“Who gives a flying fuck what you do, or do not approve of?” I harshly spit out back before he could say anything else. “Now, why are you really here? Don’t you have more pressing matters to attend to, like the summons?” I change the subject as quickly and swiftly as possible only because I don’t have the time or patience to argue about my beloved.

Embry is here and will always and forever be here.

She’s not going anywhere for the rest of eternity. My so-called brothers can either accept her or accept death because if they don’t accept our union they will be considered dead to me.

“Don’t you,” he answers my question with a question while laying back, and then he decides to cross his left leg, over top of his right one. That’s his style, always handling casual conversation, disputes, or any other type of communication as if it’s a business matter.

I roll my eyes at him before placing them on to the fireplace behind his back that sits directly beside the window. Then, my eyes lock on to the rising strawberry moon.

Fuck. It’s almost time. I don’t have time for this.

“Cut the crap, Luscious. I already know why you are here,” I say hastily. “Just get on with it,”

“Oh, is that’s so?” His mournfully sinister dark brown eyes briefly flash with excitement as he says that to me with a measured voice. “So, why am I here?”

Now, here comes the theatrics.

I can’t help but smile at that.

You see, there is no secret that Luscious doesn’t like werewolves. None of us King’s were known to be too fond of their kind into now. Thanks, to Embry!

Well, actually I still don’t give a fuck about their kind, with the exception of Embry, although everyone knows that our bond makes things different. She’s different, but that’s still not the point that I’m trying to make.

The point is that Luscious hatred for hunters and humans runs deeper than his hatred for anything. He hates humans just because hunters were born to protect humans.

(Epic fail by the way!)

Anyway, the hunter’s life mission is to protect the humans, which places a target on their back in Luscious eyes. The moral of the story is that, Luscious hates just about all other species other than vampires but unless your a human or a hunter he could give two fucks about you. So, that brings me back to why he is actually here.

My union to Embry may not be liked by him, but it’s not enough reason to make him leave his Kingdom. In fact, Luscious hates leaving his kingdom because leaving his Kingdom puts a hold on him hunting the hunters and all he cares about is hunting the hunters down to the point of extinction and that’s it.

In other words, my love life is not and will never be any of his concern. Nope! Not at all.

The real reason that he’s here is that he knows that I have something that he wants and the only way that he will get what I have is if Luscious decides to plays nice.

So, let the games begin.

“Fun fact,” I abruptly say with a smirk. “Did you know that the easiest way to break a hunter is by breaking their bond to their bonded charge?”

“Of course, I do,” his smirk widens. “But you already knew that, so what’s your point?”

Of course, I did! I think to myself and he already knows that. That’s exactly why I forced the hunter Forrest to be bonded to that girl in the first place. I wanted him to feel real pain, true pain. The type that would break him and my actions turned out to be extremely beneficial too Luscious.

Thanks to me, the bloodline that Luscious hates more than anything in this world can officially be wiped off of it once and for all.

You see, everyone knows that Forrest has been in our custody for a long while. We could have killed him many centuries ago, but Luscious believed that death was way too good for the crimes that Forrest committed.

He wanted him to suffer. He wanted Forrest’s entire family to be extinct, but Forrest was to suffer the most due to personal reasons.

So, we kept Forrest for centuries and tortured him every single day of his miserable life for as long as I could remember, while Luscious so graciously delivered his family members dead bodies to him one by one.

It was all a game. A very fun one as we all watched our brother wipe out the Banks bloodline one by one.

Yup! We really were having a splendid time into we hit a big boom! Forrest’s last remaining relative was the big boom.

One day it all stopped. The tracking stopped completely. Out of nowhere, the remainder of the Banks bloodline mysteriously became untraceable, which put Luscious killing spree on a complete hold but most importantly officially making him miserable.

Yup! We all know that’s he’s miserable, getting rid of the Bank’s bloodline is personal to him. Real personal, and we all know that Forrest has one living relative but she seemed to slip off the face of the planet.

And yes it’s a she. A very clever she at that, I just have to add in and it just happened to be Forrest half-sister.

That’s exactly why we allowed the hunter to escape. We were hoping that the idiot would lead us to the bigger prize but he didn’t. Instead, the fool decided to place himself in werewolves and vampire’s political affairs, which earned him a straight back to jail ticket.

Anyway, Luscious has been trying to hunt Forrest half-sister down for a century now, but the problem was that none of us even knew who she was, what she even looked like, or better yet what she was even capable of. She mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth and rumor has it that she doesn’t even share the Bank’s bloodline distinctive scent.

Weird as fuck and here’s another fun fact for the day, all hunters who are related to one another typically share each other scent in some type of way, or shape of form but not this one.

She’s different and clever I just have to add that it once again.

That’s how she earned the name the invisible Blood Banks, or like Marcellus likes to call her Banks the not so friendly ghost. Fucking, clown! He’s such an idiot, but ironically enough I never would have guessed how right on the idiot was because I’ve recently discovered that the invisible Banks really isn’t that invisible.

She’s actually been standing right under our nose the entire time in plain sight. In fact, I’ve seen here on numerous occasions. I’ve just never seen her for who she truly was. No one did and I never would have known her true identity either, if it wasn’t for my sweet ole Auntie requesting, or more like demanding that I invited the bitch of a step-cousin of mine.

Night Falls, who I’m forced to treat like a sister of mine and her even bigger of a bitch best friend by the name of Biggs, or should I say her legitimize name, which is Berretta Banks.

The shit is just mind-blowing as fuck. You see, I’ve got a special arrangement with the hunters, due to my aunties relationship with her beloved that everyone respects out of respect to my aunt, even Luscious because no matter how much he hates the hunters, and trust me he hates them a lot but his love, respect, and devotion to my auntie is the only thing in this world that overrides his hatred.

Oddly enough, which brings me back to my special arrangement.

I’ve promised Ghost Falls that his daughter and her group will be under my full protection and my good ole friend promised to honor my promise as long as they stay out of vampire politics affairs, which means Night Falls group is off-limits. We can’t touch them as long as we don’t have any evidence that they are conspiring against us.

Then here comes Berreta Banks, a sworn born in enemy to my species, but more importantly, my brother sworn enemy who happens to be not only a member of their gang but also their lieutenant.

Yup! They are dead. You see, one of the biggest agreements between us kings and this particular infamous Hoax gang is that we were to be aware of all of their members, which means those sneaky little fucks outsmarted us.

Not only did they give us false names because let me be clear if Berreta Banks’ name was on that list. My not so sweet sister gang would have been wiped out of the face of the planet a very long time ago. This also makes me question what else my so-called sister slash, cousin in law is hiding.

That sneaky little bitch she has bought me around her soon to be dead best friends Biggs on numerous accusations.

The problem is I just never knew that that’s who Biggs actually was and I never would have known that price of critical information if it wasn’t for my aunt, which also makes me wonder something else. Who side is my auntie really on, but I'll pass?

I’ll let that family business stay family busy and deal with all of the theatrics that this scenario shall most certainly cause because let me be clear this shall be one hell of a show, especially now that I forced Forrest to bond with a new charge.

Yup! This will be one hell of a show indeed because now that Forrest has a new charge anyone who shares his blood will feel the need to protect her. Plus, I have Forrest and his charge in my custody, and on top of that, I have Forrest last remanning relative in my possession, literally at this moment in my Kingdom currently mingling at my event.

So, what does all of this mean for Luscious?

Hmm. Well for starters, this means that he owes me one. A big one!

For providing him with the golden ticket to complete his life mission once and for all.

Checkmate.

At this moment, I’m the puppet master and if Luscious wants to run my show he’s going to have to give me a good deal. It’s very simple, a favor for a favor. So here we are.

Before I decide to respond, the two of us just sit here for a while. In all honesty, we don’t even have to say anything.

There has never been any reason to explain what’s already known. So, I’m just sitting here staring at him with a wide smirk plastered on my face.

Luscious, my dear oh friend is now indebted to me and he knows it.

“Oh, you cut the crap!” he finally snaps. His voice is now nowhere near measured.

“I’ve been told that you have Forrest and that you forced him to create a new charge, give them to me now. His blood belongs to me.

“I’ll tell you what,” I say, now the one crossing my legs and mimicking his actions. “I’ll give you the both of them, plus one, on two conditions. ”

Almost instantly, Luscious eyes flash bloody. “I’m supposed to be your brother. What type of brother bargains with their brother?”

“A one in need,” I snap back and my voice is nowhere near measured as well. He has a nerve. We all have our fairs hair of bargains with each other on numerous different accusations, especially him but that’s a story for a mother time.

“Of course, you are!” He spits out, madder than a hatter. “You’re always in need, in need of brotherly protection from dogs, in need of favoritism from our King, in need of protection for your bi-,” he goes to say, but before the word could fall from out of his lips my monster zooms overtop of the black coffee table, placing our frame directly in front of him.

“I suggest you mind your tongue if you want to keep it,”

Luscious’s head goes flying back as his monster sinister laughter fills the air, “Yeah! Right, you’re not going to do shit and we both know it. Now, who’s the one full of crap, cut it! And tell me what the fuck you want.”

You know what! I don’t have time for this.

I’ve got to get to Embry, fast, and that one thought is all it takes to make my monster negative energy dissolve, just so I can get straight to the point.

So, I take a step back and run my hands smoothly over my tux before making my way over towards the window. Then, I stare out of it for a long while before I finally respond.

I can feel Luscious dark eyes spitting fireballs to my back the entire time.

“First thing’s first,” I say while turning around to face him. “I need your word that your relationship with my aunt stays in tack after you find out this critical information,”

“What the fuck are you talking about?” he snaps. “Your aunt has been more of a mother to me than my own mother and you know that. I would never cause her any harm. No on us well! Why the fuck do you think that you are still alive?”

This time, I’m the one to knock my head back as sweet laughter flows from out of my lungs. “Cut the big boy act, you little bitch! ” I spit as my monster once again comes to the surface. “You’re no match for me and you know it, but that’s beside the point. And quite frankly, I’m running out of time and so are you. So, do you want this critical piece of information or not,”

“What critical piece of information,” he snaps back, jumping out of his seat. “Give them to me now or so help me, Blood God,”

“I’ve already told you lunatic, that you can have them, plus one! Now, shut the fuck up and listening to my terms,” I say while making my way over to him. Once, I reach him I get straight to the point. “First things first, I’ll let you go and collect your prizes as long as you don’t make any contact with my beloved,”

This time, Luscious is the one to roll his eyes, ” And how am I supposed to do that,” he says. “If she truly is your beloved she would have felt my presence the very moment I stepped foot into your territory, unless,” he goes to say while briefly staring at the moon.

I follow his lead also staring at the moon as a phantom of a smirk falls upon my lips. “You were saying,” I regain his attention.

“Fine!” he spits. “I don’t like the smell of wet dog, anyway.,” he calms himself down with a joke, but at the same time rilling me up. My monster releases a warning growl. We’ve had enough of him.

“Lighten up, Cyrus, ” he quickly defends himself next while making his way over towards the bar.

“I know,” I spit. I could tell by the tone of his voice and as my beloved would think, voice tone says it all, but this isn’t a joke.

My love for Embry isn’t a joke and Luscious better make it best to remember that.

Luscious just nods his head. His movement is brief but it’s still laced with annoyance and I can’t help but laugh.

He has a nerve. I should be the one annoyed it’s my union night. Plus, the strawberry moon which s extremely important to my beloved but here he stands to be the annoyed one.

Trust me. I know the pain just like I know him.

That’s exactly why it doesn’t surprise me when he heads towards the bar in the middle of our conversation in search of a drink. “Okay, I got it.” he agrees.

“No more dog, I mean wolf jokes,” he adds in while searching for the bottle of Good-ole Jack. Nicklaus and Luscious choice of poison consists of Jack Daniel, especially Nicklaus. He prefers his drink on the rocks with a shot of honey. Luscious on the other hand, prefers his Jack neat.

Once, he finds his preferred poison. He picks up a rocks glass, pours the Jack neat, and then takes it to the head before pulling him another glass.

See. I told you, I know him too well.

After he finishes calming his nerves he turns back around to face me. “I’ll stay out of her sight, for now,” he says. “Now, what else do you want,”

Whelp! Here goes nothing. I think to myself while making my way over to him. “I want you to promise me that after I give you this golden ticket that you won’t act out on my land.”

“What the fuck?” he spits.

“Your word,” I cut him off, ready to get to the point. “In the name of our bond,”

Suddenly, Luscious head snaps in the window direction, obviously thinking over my request. He’s no fool just like how I know him. He knows me and he knows that if I’m making him promise on our bond not to react that I’ve got something big. The only question is well he honor it after he learns what it is, or more like who it is?”

We stand in silence for another long while before he finally gives in. “Fine,” he says. “You have my word, now tell me what it is,”

“It’s no what it is, brother but more like who it is,” I tell him with a wide smile. “Forrest last remainder relative,”

“What about her?”

“I know who she is but most importantly where she is,” I say while turning to face my brother.

“She’s here,”

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