She blinks at me. “Like…the mafia?” she eyes me from head to toe and I feel her aura grow warmer. Smell her blood hotter and thicker.
“Yes,” I reply simply. I turn and start to lead her down the hallway toward the staircase that leads upstairs.
“You’re a crime family of demons…why would you need to be a crime family if you’re demons?” she asks me uncertainty.
I laugh softly. “Why wouldn’t you? We have advantage over almost everyone.”
She walks up the stairs beside me and looks around at the lavish estate with a glittering in her eyes. “I don’t think I’ve been in a house this expensive before.”
“Get used to it,” I say with a chuckle. “For now, anyway.”
“So, your family…have they always been…like this?” she asks. I lead her to a door and open it without even touching it. She gasps in surprise.
“How did you do that?” she asks with an excited look on her face.
I sigh, getting a bit tired of the questions. “Please, just go inside and get changed. Don’t mess anything up. Don’t go into any rooms with closed doors. The library is open for you,” I inform her. “I need to get to my meeting.”
I turn around to head back down the stairs.
“Wait!” she says quickly.
I turn to look at her. “What?” I narrow my eyes.
“You’re not going to answer any of my questions?” she folds her arms. “You brought me here.”
“I’ll answer plenty of them after my meeting,” I step closer to her, looking down at her with a dark expression. “Don’t forget I brought you here, alive. I can easily remedy that.”
She blinks and takes a step back. I watch her throat move with a hard swallow.
She smells…so good when she’s scared. Something about her draws me to her like nothing else. I tell myself it’s the scent of her blood and that’s it. That’s all it is…
But even as I head down the stairs and back into the meeting, she is all I can think about.
“Are you done with your human, brother?” Kane asks with a cheeky look as I step back into the room.
“I doubt she’s human,” I say simply and sit back down. I grab a cigar from the middle of the table and light it with my finger before taking a long drag. “Are you telling me you didn’t smell her?”
Kane glares at me. “She’s nothing special. Not if she summoned you.”
“Alright, that’s enough. We have business to discuss,” Lucas insists. “We must decide whether or not to take the Michaelson’s down before they take us down.”
“I think it’s an easy decision,” I tell them. “They’ve already threatened us once. I doubt they’ll be backing down anytimesoon.” I tilt my head to the side and look at my brother and uncle curiously.
“We’ll have no trouble at all,” Kane insists. “After all, they’re merely interspersed with warlocks, they’re no match for us.”
I nod. “Don’t be too cocky, brother. It’s true they’re no match against us power wise, but…they do have bigger numbers than us,” I remind him, and Lucas.
“He’s right,” Lucas taps his claws on the table. “We must go about this quickly. In the night while they’re off their guard.”
“I’ll call in all of our guards and the cousins from their posts to join us. It won’t make up the numbers completely, but it’ll be something,” I insist.
“Very well. Once they’re here, we can talk strategy,” Lucas agrees.
I take another puff of my cigar before putting it out on the table and pushing up from my chair. It only takes a split second for me to appear at the door out of thin air.
“Don’t get distracted with this girl, Mercurius,” Kane reminds me.
I roll my eyes. “Have I ever?”