Jordan
“My head is fucking killing me “, I linked to Damien, as we sat in this boring ass meeting with some of our shareholders.
“So is mine”, Damien linked back. Usually, with any injury, our wolf/vampire line will just heal within seconds, and we will be good as new. Perks of being hybrids. We were born on the red moon, or the blood moon as some liked to call it. Normally, we would have been simple wolves, had we been born on some other day. However, because we were born at the exact peak of the red moon Eclipse, our wolf DNA merged with that of the power of the red moon, turning us into hybrids. I find it funny that our brothers were born the same way a year before us, just under the blue moon.
I am the younger brother of Carter. We are just alike in so many ways, and are close, but I was never as close to him as he is with Seth. They are like a second skin. I would have been jealous of it, had Damien not been born as my twin moon brother. We are all linked by the moon in one way or another. All four of us were blessed by Selene, brothers in some way. Why we have the powers we do, I would never know, but maybe one day we will find out.
Damien is to me, what Seth is to Carter. The other half of my soul. Carter linked us, letting us know he had found his and Seth’s mate. I was happy for them. We all always suspected they would share a mate, just like Damien and I suspect we too will share a mate. I didn’t mind, but I knew Damien didn’t want a mate period. He is always too focused on our business and never lets himself cut loose. I figure it is the alpha blood in us that makes us feel this way, but ever since we were born, he has always been reserved. Kept to himself. He only opens up to me. He is a lot like Seth in that way, but even Seth allows himself to have fun with some of our pack members. Damien is much more animalistic than us, whereas I am more in tune with myself. We balance each other out. Always have.
I know that when we do find a mate, he won’t reject her, because he knows it will hurt her bond with me. He has even said he is willing to put up with her if it means it makes our powers stronger, which, we figure, will. For twenty-five years, we have lived, and not one person other than me has ever been able to penetrate the thick layer around his heart. It will be fun to see what our mate can do, if we ever find her.
“This shit is really annoying ” Damien linked me, and I couldn’t agree more. Why were we both having them? It hadn’t started until we reached Miami. Damien and I had been finalizing plans for one of our buildings in Jamaica. We came across our parents, who had been sightseeing. Now that Carter and Seth were the alphas of the pack, it gave our parents much more time to travel. Damien and I were lucky to have been born as second sons, because that has gifted us the ability to do as we pleased. Like our brothers, we wanted to leave behind a legacy of our family name. In doing so, Damien and I opened our business “Black Diamond.”
” We already have twelve Diamonds opened across the globe”, one of our investors said. He was one of the ones that pulled his funding from five of the diamonds already. We didn’t really need his funding, as our pack’s finances were healthy enough, but Damien and I didn’t want to live off money from home. We already had the best in everything. School, training, arts. We wanted something we could proudly call ours and ours alone. Built from scratch, and that is what we did. We took money saved from two years of working as cops for the city of Miami, saved up the money, and opened Black Diamond. Our closest friends were inspired by the idea and decided to invest in our business plan and soon word spread that a stable nightclub that catered to all shifters had finally been opened in Miami.
Nightclubs rarely catered to all shifters, but with Damien and I being hybrids, we knew this was the best way to convince people to make it popular. Fights always break out between shifter species, but not in the black diamond. We had a guard for every type of shifter possible, and they each had a responsibility to keep their shifter brethren in check or kill them on the spot. That is why no one disrespected our rules. If you want to fight, then fine, but do it off our property.
Business boomed better than we would have ever thought and, with our steady rising income, Damien and I were millionaires by the age of 23. Every shifter shareholder on the council benefited from the income they received monthly, and we all knew expanding into Jamaica was the right move. It was the home of the snake shifters, and we were on good terms with them. However, Joe, the one arguing about it, was not. Joe was a fox shifter. Everyone knew foxes and snake shifters hated each other more than any other race. Damien narrowed his eyes on Joe.
” Are you really going to let this prissy ass hate you have with the snake shifters prevent you from becoming richer?”, he asked Joe, looking at him with his menacing face. Joe looked nervous and he had a right to be. He brought up some bullshit ass complaint at every one of these meetings.
“Of course, not…” Joe said, trying to choose his words carefully.
“Then what the fuck are you saying, Joe? This deal is happening with or without you. It is a good deal. One that will bring every investor at this table a lot of fucking money. Do you like being an investor, Joe” I questioned him. On top of our headaches, he was pissing not only us off, but other investor shifters here as well.
“Fine…. I … I am in”, he said, looking at me before mumbling something, most likely an insult.
“Good, now that that is out of the way, meeting fucking adjourned”, Damien said, and the holograms of each investor nodded in harmony then they clicked off. One of the investors was famous for hologram meetings, and we decided to put his business to good use. Saves everyone the travels.
“I was two seconds from getting on the jet, flying to Europe, and literally eating at Joe’s heart. ” Damien said, rubbing his head.
“I would have gladly watched ” , I told him. I linked beta Jax to set up a meeting for us with Agatha. Agatha was a seer. The only woman on the entire earth with the ability to give messages from the God’s. She is also well versed in magic, though she is only half witch. If anyone knew what was wrong with us, it would be her.