Here is the first part of chapter 3. I will post the rest of the chapter once it is edited. I would like to thank Kalamazoo707 for all of her hard work in editing and beta reading this chapter for me. Lastly I would like to thank all of you for taking a moment to read my story. so with out further delay here is chapter 3.
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Before Andrew could answer, Amelia shouted, "hey asshole! What makes you think that I'm going to let you live?"
Victor couldn't believe Amelia's insolence.
"You may have just signed your death warrant bitch; your death will be slow and painful."
Suddenly, Victor felt a crushing pain in his head. Blood ran from his nose as he dropped to one knee, his head in his hands. Catherine's eyes were glowing brightly but were dimming. She couldn't stave the fatigue off long enough to finish Victor off. Finally, she gave in to the exhaustion and went down to one knee panting hard.
Andrew took advantage of the distraction to launch another attack and charged the vampire standing between him and the women. On one level, he knew that it was a mistake not to go after Victor but he needed to protect his mate and her creation. He hit the vampire from behind, savagely jammed his fingers into the back of his neck and severed his brain stem from the spinal cord. While it wasn't a killing blow, the vampire was definitely out of the fight.
As Andrew started his attack, Amelia used the last of her strength to push into the mind of the vampire that had gone to help Victor and ordered him to attack him. Using a fingernail, the vampire slashed Victor across the chest tearing deeply into the muscles. It was the last offensive move that he would make. Victor, recovered from the effects of Catherine's mental attack made short work of the vampire, tearing off his head with no effort.
The odds were turning in their favor but they were all exhausted. Andrew hadn't gotten away without being injured. He had several gashes that were bleeding and one eye was swollen completely shut. Amelia's arm while not broken was sore as well as her wrist from when the vampire had tried to disarm her. She also had a couple of deep gashes. Of the three of them, only Catherine was virtually untouched. She only had a gash on her right arm from when she ripped the side of a vampire's neck out.
The next problem was that some of the vampires while injured were healing enough to rejoin the fight. Andrew realized that they should have killed them instead of incapacitating them. It was a lesson that he hoped that they would live to remember.
Victor felt better now that he had six other vampires in addition to himself. It had been a painful battle. His eye would take weeks to heal and he intended to make Andrew pay for the insult to him by crushing both of his eyes before killing him. He wanted to spare the women and have them work for him. Catherine in particular.
"You fought well." he said to Andrew. "I will only extend this offer to you once, if you surrender yourself I will let the women live and your death will be quick."
"Fuck you dick head!" Catherine responded her voice dripping with venom.
Victor was about to respond when he heard laughter ringing through the air. It was soft female voice that he knew well and made him cringe when he heard it.
"Victor darling, I thought that you and I had a date. I thought that you were going to teach me how to be a whore like your wife." Gloria said.
"Victor!" Susan called out, "did you tell your men that these three are under the protection of Charles Black?"
His men were shocked. Every one of them knew that their lives had just ended and those with mates knew that the lives of their mates were over as well. They all looked at Victor as they raised their hands in surrender.
Susan continued speaking, "I will forget the face of anyone that I saw here if you leave here now and you may take the dead with you. Victor, you aren't included in that offer." she added.
Victor's men scattered like roaches when the kitchen light was turned on. Victor knew that he was dead but was hoping to find a way to save the lives of his line and that of his sires. When he started this fight, he knew that it was a gamble but he figured that he would kill Andrew, Amelia and Catherine with no problem and then remove the bodies leaving no evidence. However, they had been much stronger than he had imagined.
"Susan, would you grant me two favors for old times sake?" he asked.
Susan looked at him for several seconds before responding, "What are the favors?"
"Leave my sire and the rest of my line out of this and tell me who sired these three." Victor replied.
Susan thought for a moment. Victor had always been a bit of a flake but at one time he had been a friend but that was before he mated Candace.
"I warned you about what would happen if you touched them, I told you that you would lose. Charles will be the one deciding your fate and has ordered that you be taken to him. Because we were friends at one time, I will grant you the lives of your sire and of your sister. I cannot however; answer for your line, that decision is for Charles to make.
As to who sired them, you really should take more of an interest in reading the human papers. If you had, then you would know whom you were going up against. Amelia and Andrew are Diamond's parvulus; Andrew is first, Amelia second. Catherine is Amelia's first."
Victor now understood why they were so powerful. Until Amelia and Andrew, Diamond had never sired another vampire in her long life. While she wasn't the oldest of vampires, going almost a thousand years without siring was rare to say the least. He had heard the rumors about her getting out of hand and that she was going to be put down. He saw Gloria approach and spoke to her.
"Well whore, it looks as though you've gotten a reprieve, at least until I get back."
"I doubt that you'll be getting back." Gloria said with a smile. "Do you really think that Charles is going to let this slight go?" she asked.
"Then I guess killing you is free." Victor said as his eyes became black orbs and the skin of his face became drawn and leathery. His fangs dropped as he readied himself to attack.
Susan's eyes went black and she used her mind to stun him.
"Enough." she said, "If you cannot control yourself, then I will do it for you."