“Is she alright? Where is she,” Nick asked, looking alarmed and that caught Lily’s attention.
“Mom’s always fucking okay and she had to go back,” he replied bitterly. Nick nodded but glanced around him to the guests. There was something he didn’t want the others to know.
“Hey Nickie, how about you get these guys settled and I see to your kid,” she offered, having a feeling this was Bonnie’s kid. Both the kid and Nick scowled at her.
“Only if you promise not to call me Nickie or Nickie baby for forty-eight hours,” he offered and Lily grinned.
“I think I can do that Alpha Jerk off or should I just say Nick,” she teased, calling him the nickname she’d used when they first met.
“How about Alpha and Sir,” he said and she snorted with a scoff.
“Nick it is,” she said, giving him a salute. “Come on Kid, let’s go,” she said to the boy.
“I’m not a kid,” he growled at her and she rolled her eyes at him.
“Close enough,” she retorted, earning another scowl but he walked off towards the hotel. He led her to a small room that stank of cigarettes and alcohol. Lovely, she thought and thanked God at least there wasn’t dirty underwear on the floor. “So your Bonnie’s kid right?” She asked and he nodded as he threw himself into a chair. “So tell me what did she say?”
“Like I’m going to tell you, Pocahontas. It’s for my alpha only,” he snapped bitterly and she crossed her arms over her chest. This kid reminded her a lot of herself.
“Yeah. Well rebel without a cause, or should I say without a brain, what mommy has to say may have to do with my supposed sister so start talking,” she shot at him.
“Supposed sister?” He repeated with a smirk and she suddenly understood how Andrew felt when he would have to deal with her mouth. Poor Guy.
“Yeah, supposed sister. It’s complicated and before you say something smart remember you’re the brat whose mom gave him to a psychopath to play doctor with,” she told him. He flinched with a briefly hurt look that told her she’d hit a nerve. “Sorry… I shouldn’t have said that,” she replied.
“Fuck you,” he replied bitterly.
“Sorry, you’re cute but not enough for jail time,” she told him with a grin then sat down. “Look, Zander was it? That girl has gotten into a shit load of trouble just because we share a mom. Now these people want to mess with her like Xavier did to me but here’s the catch she won’t survive. She’ll suffer unimaginable pain until she goes mad. I want to stop that and I am sure Rebel that under that I’m such a badass thing you got going, you do to.”
He scoffed and got a scowl on his face. “My mom already pulled the fucking guilt trip card. It’s not going to work for you,” Rebel shot back then sighed with a look of boredom on his face. “They’re holed up in Xavier’s old lab. At night, vamps are crawling all over the place but during the day, there are a few humans and rogues. Only my mom can get to the girl,” he explained and Lily could almost kiss him.
“Mom says she’s not doing so well. They’ve been draining her a lot,” he added, looking oddly guilty.
“Thanks, Rebel,” she told him and waited for Nick to return. They needed to act soon. Lily couldn’t let that girl get hurt any worse than she had been already.
It was sunset by time Nick and James came into the hotel room. Lily grinned when she saw three who followed them. Dorin Stancu, Evangeline, Caesar, and Donovan the only remaining members, that she knew of, of the actual Aequivalere. Dorin was a vampire, one of the few Lily found trustworthy. He had the telltale pale skin, dark eyes, and hair, he was in good shape but no body builder.
Evangeline was a succubus but she looked more like a crazy cat lady with her oversized clothing and hair that looked like it hadn’t seen a brush in years. Caesar was a fire demon, he had a tanned complexion, blindingly bright red hair with almost completely black eyes.
The last, Donovan, was big with muscles on top of muscles. He had dark hair and a beard with gray eyes that misses little. He was a great warrior and a fairy. Fairies weren’t like they were in Disney but rough and bawdy warriors.
“Donnie,” Lily said, fist bumping the fairy and then hugged the succubus. “Leech,” she spoke coolly to the vampire.
“Dirty Hybrid,” he replied and they both smirked at each other. Her smirk turned into a frown when she saw that behind James was none other than her biological father.
“What are you doing here?” She demanded, not trying to put any warmth into her tone.
“I was here first actually,” Bill Nawassa replied. He was a little taller than her with dark black hair, streaked with gray. He hadn’t aged much since she was a little girl. She supposed that was the effects of the vampire blood that he apparently been taking for about two hundred years. “I heard Alpha Daniels might have some news and it’s best we work together,” he added.
“Also, I asked him to introduce us,” a silky smooth voice announced. A vampire entered the room and offered them a tight-lipped smile. He wasn’t tall, only a little taller than Lily. His long blonde hair tied behind him loosely and his eyes were dark, almost black. He wore a long dress coat over a dark suit. However, Lily could almost feel the power coming off of him.
“Who?” Lily asked confused.