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“You have nothing we want. Now get on your fucking knees. We have an announcement to make.” Sawyer aims his knife at Augusta, getting him to back up. “If you behave, this will be quick. If you don’t, I will cut you up piece by piece and throw you into the sun. You’ve had your chance. We will not allow you to destroy La Vega. It is our city now.”
I watch in satisfaction as Augusta drops to his knees. He clasps his hands together in prayer, silently begging for mercy. But he has probably never given a single soul mercy in his existence. He will know what it’s like to be treated as less than. He will be made an example of. So will Biddeford. And the rest of their covens.
“We’re ready to roll,” Walcott says, setting his com device into the tripod that the leadership uses to send announcements across the city.
“Are you ready, Hayley?” I ask, turning to her. “This is it. You can back down. We have these assholes.”
Hayley shakes her head, her beautiful blue eyes flashing silver. Running her fingers through her shoulder-length hair, she musses the strands. “I’m all in. I want to bring the leaders to their knees. I want to send a message to Alexander.”
“Fuck yeah! I can’t wait for him to see us now. His placid little dolls are bad bitches.” Mya gives Hayley a little shake.
“Absolutely. The baddest of bitches. We will even add his disgusting cock to my collection.” Tatum joins the two of them, and I can’t help admire how beautiful Hayley looks between her two friends. I’m so glad that she has them. That we have them. I never thought much about that kind of thing, but I think Hayley is happiest when she has more than just me and the other guys. We’re going to need a damn babysitter too. I know that one of these days she’s going to give in to all of us, maybe even sooner. I can’t wait for that kind of bond with our coven. Am I a freak? Fuck yeah, I am. She deserves all of the love and pleasure her heart and soul desire.
“I will be by your side the whole time. If you feel as if you can’t do it, then just look at me. We can do it together.” Sawyer touches her cheek.
“We will all be by your side. We’re going to show La Vega the Bella Crew can’t be stopped. We are a family and that’s even better than a fucking coven created from power.” Knox guides Hayley toward where the tripod faces the wall. Walcott and Govan push the vampires toward the wall and force them on their knees. These deaths will lead to a rebirth of our city. We will finally have what we’ve been working decades for. We will finally have freedom. There will be no strip dwellers for donors. We will just be part of the La Vega population. And maybe we can show the world what we have created. We can show them that things can be different.
“We will have a couple minutes. We don’t want to give anyone a chance to try to get to us here. There’s still going to be a lot of enemies. But we will handle them. You will show them, Hayley, just how powerful you are.” Cooper joins the four of us, and we all turn toward Tatum, where she positions the video.
“As soon as the light flashes, you guys will be live.” Tatum smiles with her words. “Scare the fuck out of them, peen queen.”
Hayley laughs and tightens her hand around mine. The four of us each lend her our strength, and Mya, Govan, and Walcott lend us their loyalty.
I stare at the camera, watching as the light blinks on, and I see a projection light across the wall behind Tatum, showing us and what we look like to the rest of the city. Hayley straightens her shoulders and meets the video straight on, proving that she is as badass as I’ve always known her to be. She’s not just a dhampir. She’s my fucking queen, and I will force others to bow down to her mercy.
“Good evening, La Vega. I am the leader of the Bella Crew, and we have come to you tonight with an announcement. The leadership has been decimated. We are acquiring La Vega under our power. If you try to fight or try a hostile takeover, you will be immediately killed. We are no longer going to be a city built on the fears of donors. We are no longer going to be segregated by power and wealth. We have come to you with a plan of equality and freedom. We have discovered the truth of the most magnificent being in the universe, and she has risen from blood slavery to help rule by our sides. We ask that you stand with us and not against us. We would also like to introduce the face of our future, and the Bella Crew’s true mate.” Sawyer looks at Hayley and kisses her cheek.
“Thank you, Sawyer. For everything. To you, Monroe, Cooper, and Knox. I want to thank everyone who has stood by my side and helped me realize the truth of my existence. Because I am not a donor. I’m a dhampir, created by Alexander Aris, and he had planned to use me against the entire city. And I have come with a promise. I promise to bring peace among the city. And I will prove it today. Right here and now. Because it is time that the leadership pays for their injustice. It’s time that they pay for the disgusting behavior and laws that they were putting into place. As you’ve heard, they wanted to re-divide the population. They wanted to redistribute power. But what they weren’t telling you was that they had planned to turn every donor into a blood source, and only a blood source. But we don’t tolerate that. Because vampires were once human to. And the only way we will ever truly have an amazing future is if we can work together. Donors and vampires alike. The Bella Crew have proved that it is possible, and so have many other crews on the strip. So we are asking for a new uprising. Stand beside us and thrive. This is my gift to you, La Vega. As a dhampir and an immortal who not only gets strength from vampires but also from love, I’m here to follow through with my word. So it’s under the new reign of the Bella Crew that we sentence the leaders to death.”
If I could see the people in La Vega, I know there would be some cheering in some standing and other shocked silence. All I do is look at Hayley in awe, listening to how articulate she is despite these tumultuous circumstances.
Hayley exhales a deep breath and turns toward Augusta motioning for me to get behind him. She stands in front of him while he flails and tries to fight me. Sawyer and Knox join, and Cooper stands behind Hayley, making sure he can move her if he has to.
She locks her eyes on Augusta, and I stare at her brilliant depths as she captures his mind for manipulation. He slackens in my hold, and I’m the only one holding him up now.
“You will not fight. You will not scream. You’ll accept your death in silence.” Hayley bends his neck, sinking her teeth into the side of his throat. She watches me as she sucks his blood, using me to ignore the fact that her mouth is on a disgusting, piece of shit vampire.
I wag my eyebrows at her, encouraging her with just my presence, and she bites the bastard again and again until his flesh rips and I help her sever his head, sending him to the floor.
She turns toward the camera again, the blood staining her lips and trickling down her chin. “Do you see what I’m capable of, La Vega? I am here to change things. It is time for a better world to rise.”
And rise we will.
Chapter nineteen
Hayley
Consequences
Iwipemymouthwith the hem of my shirt, keeping my eyes trained on the camera. I wish I could see everything unfolding outside of this building. Because I know that my guys have hacked the entire system of the city and now broadcast this on every com device, TV, advertisement screen, and more.
But it’s not over. There are still others facing these consequences. And like the first fucker, the rest will face the same in silence and immobile, unable to do anything, just how they have treated donors for who knows how long. This is more than just justice. This is revenge. This is me making a point.
I turn to the other leader and stand before him, glowering down as the rest of his coven trembles. I wish I had the honor of taking down every single one of them, and mostly Alexander, but I will take whatever the world has to give me. And Alexander isn’t lost. I will end him. That is the one promise I’ll guarantee for my child. Because he knows. He knows that he is lost, and I am coming for him.
My stomach flips and flops and I clutch my belly. The leader stares at my torso, his eyes flashing silver. It makes me take an automatic step back. I don’t like the way he looks at me. There’s no way I’m going to bite him like I had the other guy.
I look toward Sawyer and hold my hand out. “We should execute the final leader together.” I hope my voice doesn’t sound as shaky as I feel, because something nags at me. My fear grows by the second, and the impending feeling of doom washes over me.
