Chapter 63: Chapter Fourteen

Cassius

~Greece 79 AD~

~What do we do with them?” I stared at the children completely dumbfounded. I possibly hadn’t thought that through. They needed parents. They needed something.~

~“Well, we can’t eat them,” Mason grumbled, crossing his arms.~

~He’d been hungry for two days, but tough shit because we’d been at the docks for the past forty-eight hours to make sure nobody escaped.~

~We couldn’t take the chance that any of the infected humans made their way over land or sea—to the general population.~

~The screams of the dead caused my head to ache. It couldn’t be avoided. Their souls were upset.~

~They had a reason to be upset.~

~It wasn’t their time.~

~But it couldn’t be avoided. I always dealt with a heavy hand. Not that I took it lightly. Humans needed to know there was a reason to fear the immortals.~

~To double cross us was to invite death.~

~“The princess.” Eva sighed. “The Demon came for her when you started burning the city.”~

~“And what did Timber have to say for himself?” I kept my eyes focused on the horizon as smoke filled the air.~

~“He screamed at me, though he was able to take her as far as the door, Mason took care of the rest.”~

~“You killed him?” My eyebrows shot up. He was a powerful Demon, just as old as us, he’d been alive since the fall of man.~

~“He ran.” Mason sighed. “I got two bites in before he disappeared.”~

~“Damn.” The horizon wasn’t changing. There were no boats. Only blackness.~

~“So…” Eva’s scent was altogether too intoxicating. I moved away from her so I could think. “What are we going to do with the children?”~

~“Sariel can never know.” I breathed out an irritated sigh and glanced at Eva out of the corner of my eye. “Understood?”~

~Blood must always be spilled. And once judgment was passed, mercy did not exist.~

~Because of my weakness for a woman I could never have—I allowed it.~

~Eva’s green eyes blazed as she gave me a firm nod. A Vampire’s word meant everything. I knew she would take it with her for eternity.~

~“And I imagine the children will do what children do…” One last look at the horizon, and I snapped my attention back to Mason and Eva. “It shouldn’t be too hard to find them homes, but Eva?”~

~She was already hugging one of the boys who’d started to cry for his mother. “Yes?”~

~“They aren’t your children.” I said it slowly.~

~“The minute they have homes, you are never to see them again. Children notice more than adults do; it would take them mere days to figure out something was different about you.”~

~“And I’m not sure how Sariel wants to proceed. I imagine we are going to need to be more careful regarding to whom we reveal our true selves.”~

~“All right.” Her eyes went back to their natural brown color as she started singing to the little boy.~

~My chest felt like someone had cracked it open, seeing a small boy in her arms, that’s what it would look like.~

~If she were mine.~

~But that existence wasn’t for me.~

~It would never be a part of my future.~