Later that night.
Adrian removed his robe, he dismissed all his servants for the night.
Before going to bed he thought about her.
, He only just met her, but it feels like he has known her all his life.
The familiar warmth he felt when around was both strange and intoxicating.
Adrian was not the only one with something on his mind.
On the left wing of the palace, Damien was still awake.
He had been trying to sleep, but for a strange reason, sleep didn't come.
The reason was because he had been trying to solve a puzzle for days now.
But after every attempt, he ends up back in square one.
After battling with sleep for a few more hours, Damien put on his Regalia and left in his horse.
Damon was about sleeping when he heard a horse neighing.
He walked to the window, and he saw his brother leaving.
Without thinking, he changed and teleported to the stable.
In a few seconds, Luke came out from the shadows and hopped on his horse.
Adrian and Luke tailed Damien quietly from behind.
He left the palace, and was going into the woods.
Damien could feel their presence, he could feel people following him.
But he didn't stop moving.
After riding for a while, he stopped at a pleasure house.
Not just any pleasure house.
Lorena Yhayn's pleasure house.
The place is known for serving food, drinks, and women.
But that was just a cover.
The main purpose of coming here isn't for the food or sex.
It was for scheming and plotting.
It's a place where rulers of the underworld met.
A place where thousands of secret are buried.
Damien strode in, but before he entered the building, someone stopped him.
Someone who looks all too familiar.
They talked for a while and went in together.
Damien seemed to notice that eyes were on him, so he moved with courtesy.
About three meters away, Adrian felt his blood boiling.
He felt this strange kind of rage he had never felt before.
Luke noticed, and decided to calm him down.
" That doesn't prove that he tried to kill you".
Luke said, even though he was not convinced himself.
Adrian and Luke decided to hang on.
They stayed by a tree, watching to see if anything strange was going to happen.
Adrian was feeling restless, so he decided to eavesdrop on their conversation.
He had a strange ability that no vampire had.
The ability to hear things clearly, from meters.
With good concentration, he could hear from miles.
The brothel was unusually crowded that day, but Adrian heard something Damien said.
"Tell your boss to clear his tracks and watch his back ".
Adrian clenched his jaw, " Clear his tracks and watch his back".
Damien should pray to the Gods, if he was the one who tried to kill me... because I will make him suffer.
Luke swallowed hard.
He knows that tone.
That look, that's the look Adrian wears when he is about to wreak havoc on his enemies.
After a while, Damien came out.
He still felt something, like someone's cold gaze burning into his body.
But he just decided to ignore it.
However, Adrian had his eyes on the gate.
The moment the other man came out, Adrian approached him.
The man froze as he saw Adrian riding towards him.
He considered running for a while, but Adrian was already too close.
He climbed down from his horse and bowed in respect.
Adrian also climbed down from his horse, but the moment his feet touched the ground, he was in front of the man.
" What is your name?"
Callum Rodrigo the man replied now shaking frantically due to the coldness Adrian was emitting.
Adrian brought his hands to Callum's neck and gripped it highly.
He turned pale immediately.
Adrian chuckled, as if his fear was satisfying him.
In a way, it was.
" Who is your boss?"
Callum shuddered feeling the coldness in Adrian's voice.
Callum opened his mouth, but he couldn't say it.
Adrian pushed his fingers into his skin, blood gushing out.
Luke decided to intervene.
He studied the man before him for a while and said.
" He's sired".
He can't reveal his boss's identity because he is sired to him.
Adrian scoffed.
But in the next second, he did something that amazed Luke.
He brought his fingers to Callum's head, and pushed his claws inside.
He closed his eyes immediately.
Likewise, he felt himself drowning in Callum's memories.
Luke was stunned.
That was something only thousand years old vampires could do.
Not even all of them could do it.
Getting into people's head is easy.
But getting into the head of a five hundred years old vampire.
Not just any vampire, a sired vampire that was almost impossible.
Adrian was still lost in Callum's memories, not knowing which one to enter.
His brows furrowed slightly as he saw a familiar memory.
The memory of the night that he was poisoned.
Everything was the same.
The people, the place, the voices.
They all felt all too familiar.
Then he saw himself.
Nursing a drink that was given to him by Alexander, his cousin.
But that wasn't the poisoned the drink because Alexander drank from it too.
Then, his eyes caught a blonde in the dance floor.....
The trip down memory lane was caught short, Callum's body started shaking.
Adrian tried to hold on, but the memories were slowly fading away.
Everything turned black, as Callum turned blue in Adrian's hands.
Luke closed his eyes and dropped him near his horse.
He looked at Adrian, who seemed just confused like him.
Adrian retracted his claws and said.
" It wasn't the drink, I was not poisoned by the drink, it was something else".
Luke seemed to have known that.
Did you get the name?
He asked.
Adrian nodded.
" Killian Fernandez ".
Luke nodded.
However, someone was lurking in the shadows.
He had been watching them this whole time.
He smirked.
" Not so soon Adrian, you will have to face hell before you find out the truth about that night"