Goodbye My Lover pt 28 (Nickles is back)

Noel

I took Nickle to the back of the shop so we could catch up. He walked to the loveseat and spread his arms out.

“So, what is going on? You never reached out for me.”

That was true. I was angry that my father had slept with a normal and created him. It was childish. When he was younger he wanted to be around me a lot. I just looked at the hurt on my mother’s face when she saw him.

One night when he was asleep, I heard a sound in his room. Dad wanted him with us to learn who we were. I silently went to his room and stopped my mother from killing him. He never knew what had happened since he was a heavy sleeper.

She told me that he was an abomination and should be destroyed. That was when things started to formulate in my mind.

I was an abomination, and she did not want me dead. He was my brother and I treated him badly because of how she was feeling but he did not ask to be here.

From that night on I tried to build a bridge between us. Once he reached a certain age Dad said it was time that he go to his mother’s people and stay with them.

It was true I never reached out to him because I knew he was better off with them. Now things have changed.

“Nickle I do apologize for that.”

He tilted his head and smiled. He still kept that innocent smile.

“What’s up?”

“A war is about to happen and I need help.”

“War?”

“Yes, I never claimed the city openly and my old associates are back. They want to take over the city.”

He leaned forward and stared at me with an intensity I did not know he had. It reminded me of our father.

“Do they know about me?”

“I never talked about you.”

“Good.”

“What are you thinking?”

“Being unknown has its advantages. Being a Dhampir has even more.”

“Have you ever killed one of us before?”

“Brother now you ask thatt? We have not seen each other since I was a lanky teen. My life was not innocent. I had to do some things that you would be disgusted with. So to answer that question it would be yes.”

I did look into Nickolas’s mother’s family. They were killers and no doubt trained him to be one.

“I need you to know everything. That way you are prepared.”

“Catch-up time? I think we should have something strong to drink for this.”

I smiled at how grown up he was.

“You mean not hot chocolate?” I teased

“No how about tequila straight.”

He leaned forward and I got a good look at him. He was tatted up but I think it to cover all the scares he has. He noticed me looking at his scars.

“Doesn’t matter. I’m alive and well and thirsty.”

“I got the hint.”

Darlene

I wanted to get to Noel as soon as I could. I just feel like I will not make it home. Every time I passed someone they would be glaring at me. Complete strangers look at me as if I should be dead.

I decided to take a cab to the coffee shop and suddenly there was traffic when there wasn’t any before.

I pulled out my phone to call Noel and both doors in the back opened. Two people I recognized got in.

“Wow can you believe this traffic?” she said as she looked at me.

I didn’t answer instead the man to my left answered.

“Yeah, it was not difficult to create. I killed this man, pushed him in front of a vehicle, and whela it’s traffic.”

He just admitted to killing someone.

“Oh Peter her pulse is racing. Do you hear hit?”

“Yes, Eliza. She is making it hard to resist taking her blood.”

“She does smell tempting. Tell Noel that Eliza and Peter said hello and that I approve of his choice to replace me.”

The man laughed and left the cab. She followed right after. I wanted to be sick but I calmed myself enough to breathe through it.

Noel has to explain what is going on. Nighter’s were not allowed this far into the city. The driver seemed to be nonreactive about the two people that entered and exited his cab.

“Miss, I will not charge you for this. We should get there within the hour.

Nickalos

It’s been a while since I have seen my big brother. He seems different from what I remember. He did not like to have a lot of attention on him and now he wants to claim publicly his birth right?

Who is he fighting for?