there Max.”
He stops and says “Calm
down little wolf, no one is going to hurt you. Let Ben
go.”
I laugh and say “Like fuck
you aren’t, I’m not some naïve child like you seem to think I am.
All of you want to feed from me and with ten of you and one of me
you’ll drain me dry. I’m not stupid. I told you I was old Max.
Didn’t you believe me?”
Max shakes his head and
says “Of course not. You wouldn’t say how old you were. You played
it off like a joke. Only a young person does that when they want to
appear like they’re older. On top of that you talk like a younger
person and you dress like a twink. So, I just assumed you were in
your hundreds.”
I stare at him blankly
before laughing harder than I have in a long time. “Oh wow, that
was good. You got me there. You’re totally right I’m in my
hundreds.”
He raises an eyebrow at me
and says “I am?”
I glare at him. “Of course
not you fucking idiot. I’m half a millennia over 3000 years old.
You do the math while I kill all your friends.”
I started with Ben. I
gripped his head with my legs, flipped backwards, and twisted,
decapitating him in a complicated maneuver most people couldn’t
have pulled off. I dropped to the ground and started shooting
lightning from my fingertips at the rest setting them aflame before
they even knew what hit them. The ones I don’t get with lightning I
behead and add to the flames, finishing Max off last. Once the
bodies are burned I use my power over the sea to draw water from a
nearby pool and put out the flames before it spreads.
I look up at the stars and
sigh. That so did not go as planned. Better call Valik because I
know I’m going to get my ass chewed. I pull out my phone and dial.
“Do you have any idea what time it is?”
“ Time for you to yell and
scream at me about how stupid I am then send someone to pick me up
before I get arrested for arson?”
He shouts “What?! What
happened? What did you do?! You weren’t around humans were
you?!”
I sigh. “I tried to lure
out a couple of the rogues so that they would lead me to their
hideout but they led me to a vacant lot and eight other rogues
instead. They planned to drain me dry. I killed them all and burned
the bodies in said vacant lot. It isn’t far from a human
neighborhood so I’m sure someone saw it. I put the fire out of
course but I have no way back to my hotel. It’s too late for a taxi
and I took one to get to the club instead of driving my SUV. So, I
need a pick up.”
He sighs and says
“Sometimes, I don’t know what to do with you. I’ll send someone to
your location. If you hear sirens hide before they get to you and
update me on your location.”
He hangs up without giving
me an ETA on the pick up so I know I pissed him off a little bit. I
walk to the edge of the lot and sit on the sidewalk to wait. It
takes a full hour for my pick up to arrive and by then I’m pretty
sure I could have walked back to the hotel or teleported. I don’t
teleport very often only when I really need to. I usually only
teleport to my home island when I don’t feel like taking the boat
and also to Olympus when I want to visit my uncle and father. It
takes a lot of energy out of me to do it.
By the time I get back to
my hotel room I’m exhausted. I strip out of my clothes and drop
myself into a scalding hot bath to relax for a while. If I fall
asleep and drown then so be it. Not like I’d die from it anyways.
I’d just wake up in a pool of water like it was no big thing.
Sometimes it’s a pain in the ass being immortal and invulnerable at
the same time. It’s not the good kind of pain either. God, I need
someone of my own. I really can’t stand being alone
anymore.
Pretty soon I’ll be
picking up men when I should be working instead to ease the
loneliness and that’ll be bad for business. If things take a turn
down that road I’ll end up getting my ass kicked by Valik or worse
his brother. Krealik. He even scares me and