Sebastian stares and walks forward desperate to reach her. The rocks are still warm beneath his hand and his head is bowed in sorrow.
“Someone needs to give me a lift to New York.” Keane’s voice booms out.
Laughter ripples through the group as they all turn to leave. Aided by the Shadow King, Reese, they all join in the recovery efforts.
Chapter 35
One day later, Keane is in New York, finishing up the clean-up when Morgan arrives with Caius.
“This thing has much to discuss with you,” Morgan says shoving Caius forward. “I trust that you will put his knowledge to good use. If he doesn’t cooperate feed him to one of the animals.”
Caius wants to live more than he wishes to die. In his weakened state, he is unable to fight back. Meekly he follows the Guild members into the blacked out van. They watch it drive out of sight and Morgan turns back to him.
“True enough. I need to get back to Katie. How are the recovery efforts going?” He asks Keane.
“Well, enough. It will take weeks to repair the damage here and in the other cities around the world, but it is coming along nicely.”
Morgan bows and disappears.
“Where’s the van?” A Guild driver asks as he walks up.
Keane’s eye widen and he starts to cuss.
Sebastian drives the van, releasing the glamour spell he holds. He turns into a dark alley and puts the van into park. As he walks around the back of the van his teeth erupt out of his jaws and his eyes go black with vengeance. A hard pull and he jerks open the rear door. Sebastian snarls, revealing his dripping fangs and climbs inside, slamming the door behind him.
“Retribution will be mine,” Sebastian growls and the screaming starts.
Keane leaps into another van and tears off down the road. Each van is tagged with GPS locators. It doesn’t take him long to find Sebastian. He is leaning against the van, staring into the sky above when Keane pulls into the alley. From the blood covering his clothes and the satisfaction on his face, he doesn’t need to ask what he has done.
“I take it that you were waiting for this moment.”
“Of course, I had unfinished business to take care of,” Sebastian replies with a satisfied shrug of his shoulders.
“You’re going to go after the council next, aren’t you?”
A red flame flickers behind his eyes and Sebastian snarls in response, “Don’t try to stop me, Keane.”
“I understand.” Keane steps close, “Your daughter will worry about you. Stay safe.” They shake hands and Sebastian is surprised when Keane presses a slip of paper into his palm. “You will find what you seek at this address. Good luck.” He clears his throat and turns to climb inside the idling van and leave.
Sebastian grins and leaps into the night air.
The building is unlike most of the state-of-the-art facilities Caius held. This is a simple storage unit outside of small town, in Connecticut. Mostly used for boats, furniture and people moving, it is protected by a chain link fence surrounding the facility.
His heart is pounding out the ancient rhythm of revenge and nothing will stop him from claiming it. Slipping effortlessly through the fence he turns and walks silently through the darkened maze of buildings and stops with a hiss when she steps in front of him.
Anya smiles at her father, she can feel the pain and rage emanating from his spirit. “You won’t change my mind daughter. They will pay for taking your mother from me!”
“Of course, they will, but you won’t be facing them alone, Dad.” Anya points to the unit beside her and the door slides up like a garage. He grins and moves to step inside, but she stops him with a hand on his arm. “Wait,” she whispers.
A light appears on the back wall behind a stack of boxes revealing a hidden door. Quickly he pushes the boxes out of the way and Anya steps up to the panel. Punching in a code the door opens revealing stairs to a lower level. Moving swiftly down the stairs they enter a darkened room lined with glass front horizontal cryo chambers. Each chamber has a large silver tube in the center of the top leading back to a central computer.
“All eight of them are here.” Anya passes her hand over the computer tapping a few buttons, she locks the doors on each chamber.
Sebastian steps over in front of the closest glass door back lit with an orange light, Lady Faygin appears to be asleep. Sebastian taps the glass viewport and smiles when her eyes snap open in surprise. Lord Emmanuel is in the chamber next to hers. Her squeal of surprise alerts the other members. “What is all of this, Anya?” Sebastian demands.
“It seems they grew tired of drinking stale blood, so they joined Caius in these, I believe he called them, Viro Chambers. A person can be harvested, every ounce of them utilized and injected into the chamber and they absorb the essence. This is how Lailah was …
Sebastian hisses and rushes towards the first chamber and tries to rip the door open, only to have Anya stop him.
“No! Dad, we have two options,” Anya presses a button and turns on the speaker to each chamber, switching from the music they were listening to, to a joint speaker so they can hear her. Lady Faygin can see the rage in Sebastian’s eyes as he stands in front of her. Terrified, she struggles with the door and finds it locked.
“Sebastian, let us out! We can explain everything?” she yells.
“What options, Anya?” he says
