Chapter 50

Thana's POV

"Looks like it's two against one". Dexter said.

I have waited for this moment for so long. I wanted him to pay for everything he did to me. I wanted him to feel the pain he made me feel.

I clenched my fist and was about to give a smart ass reply when another voice butted in.

"That'll make it three". The voice said.

I flipped my head in the direction of the very familiar voice.

I found myself sighing in relief when I saw the guy that betrayed me... Fifty years ago. The person I was so in love with.

"I see, you managed to escape my men". Dexter said.

But there was something about the way he looked, he wasn't surprised that Cole had escaped. He looked... Pleased.

Like things were going according to plan.

Shit! I should have known! Of course, Dexter was a very cunning vampire. We weren't going defeat him easily. He had planned this for years.

I noticed the way his eyes roamed the room... Calculating. He was getting very close to achieving his goal, I could see how satisfied he looked.

I had to figure out what his actual plan was and I needed to do it real fast.

''You're not attacking".

Cole said in my head.

I noticed they were all waiting for me to make a move.

I needed to buy myself time to figure out Dexter's plan.

"How about we put all our weapons down and engage in hand-to-hand combat?" I suggested.

Dexter smirked. Arrogance oozing out of him.

Now it was my turn to smirk.

You see, there was something about me... I never showed anyone my full potential. Dexter knew I was very good with weapons but he didn't know how good I was at fighting. But he assumed I sucked at it because each time I fought in his presence, I always messed up. I always messed up because of the vile words he would throw at me each time I would try to engage in combat so he would at least tell me that he was proud of me. I used to be so desperate for his love.

Before I knew Dexter wasn't my real father, we weren't exactly close, we were the exact opposite. He always pressured me to be perfect in everything.  I managed to be the perfect daughter at other things, just like he wanted me to. But I was never good enough for him. I just couldn't deal with his bullshit during the combat classes I was forced to take because he was always there, tellng me to fight this way and not that way. It always got my head messed up. He gave up on trying to teach me how to fight after he saw that I wasn't making any progress. He didn't just give up on me, he made sure I felt terribly bad about the fact that I could not fight. He didn't care to ask for the reason behind my weakness when it came to combat. I made up my mind to learn how to fight. I did it! I learnt how to fight and he had no clue. I didn't want him to know anyway. He was just going to say vile things that would discourage me and dampen my spirit.

Cole attacked first. Throwing fatal punches at Dexter's stomach. The force of Cole's punch was clearly effective but not effective enough to bring Dexter down.

"Punches won't work for him.".

I told Malcolm and Cole in their heads.

They understood what I meant, we had to unleash the beasts in us.

But I had a feeling that it wasn't going to be a very good idea. I'd seen Dexter's beast unleash. Trust me when I say things always get bloody when his beast is unleashed. That thing could not be tamed.

Cole growled at him, baring his fangs at him, Malcolm did the same.

"Trust me, you don't want to go that route". Dexter said.

He was right. We had to consider it well, one of us could get terribly hurt.

It was too late now. Malcolm's eyes turned crimson red as his body size increased to two times his normal size. Muscles ripping as his body size changed. He was now in his true Vampire form. We call it "The Beast" because our true forms are ruthless and almost impossible to tame, just like a wild beast.

"Your beast doesn't look that bad". Dexter commented, earning a growl from Malcolm.

I saw Cole hesitate as he clenched his fists.

I put my hand over one of his clenched fists in an attempt to calm him down.

"We chose this route. We can't back down," I told them.

"I'm not backing down". He said through clenched teeth.

It finally dawned on me. Cole couldn't unleash his beast at will, he had to be aggravated enough for his beast to be forced out because he was a pureblood. His was the most ruthless of them all.

I sighed and allowed the feral side of me to be unleashed. I really needed it for this fight.

Loud growls, muscles enhancing, baring of fangs, fingernails growing and I was finally there. I felt the presence of the feral side of me. I growled at Dexter. I hated him like shit, my feral side hated him even more.

He cocked his brows at Cole.

"You are not going to unleash your beast?" He asked but something told me he knew the answer to that.

I was getting impatient, as well as my beast. Eager to tear off his skin, I charged towards him, successfully tackling him down.

"Hmm, not bad". Dexter said, smirking.

It happened so fast. One second, I was on top of him, ready to dig my claw like fingernails into him and the next minute, he was on top of me, baring his fangs at me, his eyes completely dilated.

"A reminder for you, Thana, you suck at combat". He snarled as he dug his nails into my skin.

I whimpered. Memories of what he made me go through just so I could be perfect enough to fit his scheme. Memories of how he killed my fiance. All the bad memories flooded through my head, affecting my beast as well.

"Thana!" Cole yelled.

I hadn't realized I had snapped my eyes shut till he called my name. Tears were flowing freely down my cheeks. Dexter was still on top of me, grinning in satisfaction. I let him get to me. I gave him what he wanted.

I saw Cole blur over to where I was, tackled under Dexter.

Cole forced his nails out of my skin and clawed at Dexter's back, inflicting pain on him. Dexter roared out in pain, clarifying the fact that Cole's nails went deep.

As soon as he got off me, I attacked him.

He growled at me angrily and slashed his long nails across my left cheek.

There was no doubt that it was bleeding but I felt it heal soon enough.

I watched Dexter stalk over to his next prey, Cole.

His beast was unleashing but it was not fully unleashed. The only signs that his beast was getting ready to unleash were his dilated eyes and his predatory steps.

The moment he got to Cole, he hurled him across the room.

Cole groaned at the impact.

I charged forward once more but Dexter's reflexes were too fast. He grabbed my waist tightly, digging his long nails into my soft flesh as I was only putting on a black sleeveless cropped top.

I whimpered. My beast wanted to keep fighting but my body betrayed both of us. It suddenly felt like I had forgotten my relentless trainings at night. My struggle to get strong, not only physically, also emotionally.

He clawed deeper into my skin. I bit my lips hard to stop tears from falling.

He held me while he finally unleashed his beast. I watched in horror as he grew three times larger than Malcolm's feral side. I felt myself being lifted off the ground. Of course, his nails were growing longer too.

I screamed as his nails delved unbelievably deep into my skin. His eyes were black and void. Not only his muscles ripped, his clothes ripped apart too as the clothes he was putting on were tight-fitting for his normal frame, not to talk of his beast which was three times larger than Malcolm's beast.

"Ignorant little things. Let's see how you deal with things now". He said.

His voice was dark and loud as he spoke.

He dropped me on the floor only to pick me up again. This time, with one arm encircling my waist. His hand couldn't encircle my waist completely so he delved his nails into the space surrounding my bellybutton and my back.

I let out a piercing scream. Fighting him wasn't going to help so I let it be.

I saw Cole's beast unleash too. Unfortunately, his beastly side wasn't as huge as Dexter's. There wasn't much difference in size between them but Dexter's was still clearly bigger. I smiled when my eyes came in contact with his beautiful golden eyes. It made me calm. They were the eyes of a true leader.

Both Cole and Malcolm charged towards him at the same time, each targeting a different direction. Cole dug his sharp claws into Dexter's stomach while Malcolm easily slid under him so he could stand behind him.

Cole's attack didn't seem to do much damage. Dexter suddenly roared in pain. For a split second, I thought he was going to throw me down, judging by the force at which he swayed his arms. He had also swatted Cole over to the other side of the room.

He reached for his back and took out a knife.

Malcolm had stabbed his back. Malcolm's eyes widened when he realized that the knife wasn't made of silver. Shit.

Dexter seemed to acknowledge that fact too because he smirked.

He plunged the same knife into Malcolm's leg.

I screamed in horror as I watched Malcolm fall on his knees.

He reached out to take out the knife so the healing process could speed up but Dexter clearly had other plans.

He wrapped his hand around Malcolm's neck, plunging his long nails into his Malcolm's neck at the same time, choking him.

Dexter threw him down after making sure he had gone back to his normal size. He tamed Malcolm's beast forcefully.

Malcolm landed on the floor, coughing out blood.

Dexter picked up a gun and slammed it into Malcolm's head, knocking him out cold.

By then, tears were pouring out of my eyes uncontrollably not only because of the pain he was inflicting on me but also from the fact that I had to watch him inflict pain on Cole and Malcolm without being able to do something.

I watched Dexter's beastly form stalk over to Cole's.

"Little pureblood". Dexter's beast said. "Did you really think you could defeat me? Oh, you were terribly wrong".

"I'm definitely killing you. But not until your little Devereaux lover arrives". Dexter's beastly form said once again this time with an expression I didn't see before.

Cruel anticipation.

I finally put the pieces together.

When he kidnapped Brittany, his plan had been to use her as a bait to lure Cole here since they were his main targets. At some point he knew Brittany was going escape but then resorted to believing she couldn't escape since Cole already came to get her. He didn't expect that Brittany was going to make her grand escape that same day so he had to start the plan all over again, this time using me, Cole and Malcolm as baits to lure Brittany here.

He was going to kill us right after Brittany's arrival.

He slashed Cole's back with his long nails. I started in horror as blood oozed out of Cole's back but it healed fast.

He picked up a knife... It was clearly made of silver...

What was he going to do? He sure as hell wasn't going to kill any of us... Not without Brittany. He wanted to inflict pain on Cole, both physically and emotionally.

He sliced the knife through Cole's thigh as Cole yelled out in agony. It wasn't going to heal. If left for long, it could kill him. After a few minutes, I watched him fall out of consciousness as he turned back to his normal size.

Someone had to do something. I had to do something.

I looked down at my hands and realized that I had turned back to my normal self so I did the only thing I could think of.

I bit deep into his flesh, stupidly hoping it would do some damage to him.

Of course, it didn't affect him. Then I remembered that he was naked. His clothes had gotten too tight when his body size increased.

Seriously? I was going to die and the only thing I could think of was that the fucker was naked?

Ew.

He grabbed my hair roughly. I wondered how my hair didn't pull out from its roots.

He dug his nails  deep into my skin again, earning a deafening scream from me. Those stupid nails.

"Daughter, you know I might consider sparing your life if you just willingly submit to the reason why I adopted you in the first place". He said, holding my hair tightly.

"Okay, firstly, I'm not and will never be your daughter. Also, I'd rather allow you to kill me than agree to aid you in soaking your hands in innocent people's blood". I spat.

"Your words, not mine". He said.

With that, he let me go.

Pain seared through my body as I hit the floor. I felt the wounds I got from him digging his claws into my stomach and back close up.

Next thing I knew, he slashed my back with a knife that was definitely made of silver.

I screamed at the impact of the silver slitting my skin. I felt my eyes burn, as fresh tears started running down my face.

I groaned in pain as I felt all the organs in my body weaken as a reaction to the silver.

I screamed again as my stomach tightened painfully.

"Just agree to aid me and I'll save your life". His beast said.

He sounded like he was several miles away from me but I still heard him.

My body had began shutting out everything. It would only take seconds before I slipped into unconsciousness.

"I'd... rather... die... than... succumb to your... evil... desires". I said, breathing heavily between each words.

"Okay then". He said.

Then I heard someone shout.

"Stop!!!"

I tilted my head slightly and my eyes widened when I saw two females. One of them had to be Brittany. I couldn't make out the other female's face because my vision became blurry as I finally slipped into unconsciousness.

They shouldn't be here.

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