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Chapter Twenty-Five
Meanwhile in the men's restroom~
Jake was sweating like a pig as two pale men who had entered the men's room he had gone into and made him prisoner, stared down at him with smug smiles on their faces. The spiky haired guy pulled out a semi-automatic pistol from under his jacket, glancing sideways with an evil smile at him as he followed its path towards his head. "Please don't kill me, I haven't done anything wrong!" Jake begged hysterically as the Italian's bigger and taller dark haired partner chuckled in a not –so- nice voice.
"You think you didn't do any wrong doing, Jake. But," He said while Demetri pointed the gun at the sweating mortal and clicked the clutch. "You slept with Rina who has a very pissed off husband." Felix grabbed the man by his shirt and slammed him against the wall. "How does it feel knowing now she's married and he want you quietly killed off, Eh?"
Jake groaned in pain as his head hit the wall and began to spin like crazy from the impact. He shook his head to help clear the fog as he slid down the wall to the floor in a slump. Felix rolled his eyes at Demetri. "I thought you said you were going to finish him?" He whispered out the side of his mouth. Demetri pointed downward with his finger at the gun's ammo chambers. "It's not loaded, Felix. It all for scaring the shit out of him so he can leave her alone." He replied in Italian. "We are allowed to scare him to death, but not kill. Master's orders."
"Fucken shit ass motherfucker. So you deal with him mafia style and what do I get to do?"
"Beno, nothing But, you canbeat him up till he gives in, then pay him four thousand dollars afterwards and leave." Jake tried to get up but was pushed back down with a shiny booted foot. "Take him and we are dead." Demetri added in a bright voice. Felix punched Jake in the face and kicked him in the ribs. "Do you know what happens to those who fuck with the big boss's prize?" He spat in English while Demtri motioned him to prop the human on a toilet seat. Felix stepped back and watched Demtri pull out a thick wad of money from his pocket and wave it in front of the bleeding face with a smirk. "You're lucky that he didn't want to see you and was willing to pay you big bucks to break it off with her. I personally, being Italian and such, prefer to slowly cut off your nether regions while you lie strapped down to a table, cut out your tongue so you can't scream out for help," Jake whimpered in fear as he stared into the crimson eyes that looked back at him with glee. "Oh, and then let the boss deal with you personally while I get to shot your balls right in front of your face."
Felix winced in pain from behind as he tried to not picture Demetri shooting up anyone's balls like he just described. Felix's cell went off in his pocket and he excused himself from the pair to a corner as he picked up without glancing to see who it was. "Yeah?"
"Are you two done yet?" Caius growled. Felix glanced back where Demetri was stuffing the money in the guy's pants pocket and then turning to him with a curt nod.
Felix looked away. "We're done. Demes just gave him the money and guy looks like he's gonna puk any second now."
"Good, get out of there and head toward the parking lot. We are waiting for you in a black porsh." Caius hung up on him and Feilx swiftly motioned Demetri to follow him out. "Master says to get our asses out of here and head to the car." Felix informed him while Demetri put his unloaded gun away.
"Perfecto, let's get going then." He grinned. Jake sighed with relief as the pair left him alone with a bloody nose, black eye, swollen head bump and four thousand dollars in cold cash in his pocket. He struggled to stand upright and fell back on the seat with a groan. At least they decided to not kill him for his unwise actions with Rina. He didn't even know she was married anyhow with the kids and saying she was a single woman looking for a big cock to fuck.
And where did it all get him? Beat up by a mafia boss's bodyguard and paid like a sex slave for his services. Four thousand dollars right now though, didn't seem all that bad after all. He thought as he threw up on the tile floor and fainted against the wall.
Felix and Demetri walked normally towards the car with it tinted windows with dread of what Caius was going to do to them once this was all over and they were going to head home. Caius unlocked the doors before they reached them and started it up as they got in and buckled their seatbelt in the back seat. Aikiterina was oddly quite up in the front during the ride towards the hotel Caius and Atheodora were staying at currently and said nothing when he told her the twins were with his first mate. Felix kept his mouth shut as they walked into the room and found Atheodora on the floor, playing peek-a-boo with them. Cassia looked up from her with a frown as they entered the room and stopped what she was doing. Aiktirerina held her breath as she watched her and her twin brother stand up on their legs with eyes trained on their father's tall figure. Roman grinned happily and walked, unassisted, toward Caius with his arms wide open for a hug. "Papu!" He cried. Roman looked up at his mother with his dimpled cheeks when he reached Caius who had knelt down to his level with a small smile. "Papu came home, Materia?" Roman asked her questionably with wide eyes before looking back at Caius. "Papu, you don't like us anymore?"
Felix coughed slightly and looked away from them as Aikiterina felt tears brim her eyes. Caius motioned Roman forward along with Cassia, who carefully watched her brother with her frown that was so very like her father's. She came up to him and stood beside Roman with her thumb in her mouth as she sniffed the air at their father's scent. Caius felt like a dumb ass for being so harsh on their mother, but what had happened still made his fear of losing them all more apparent and painful.
"Of course I do, asikbos, I love both of you so dearly." He quickly assured him as he pulled them into his arms and kissed them tenderly on the head. "Papu does not want you and mama to go away and…" he trailed off as the twins began to cuddle into his body and wrap their small arms around his neck as they buried their face in between his neck and shoulder. Atheodora smiled sadly as she watched him close his eyes for a moment to compose himself before lifting them into his arms together and walked closer to Aikiterina. "Your Materia and I need to work out our differences so that we can be a family again." He finished softly as he looked directly into Aikiterina's eyes. Felix nudged Demetri to follow him into the kitchen area to give them privacy for a moment. Atheodora followed the pair as they slowly let out relived breaths of not having their heads rip off.
Yet.
Caius nuzzled his children before setting them back down once he heard their stomachs starting to growl. "I see you're both hungry." He observed. "What do they eat, Rina?"
"I've given fruits, veggies, fish, meat, the normal sort of thing since they are older and are demanding more food to satisfy their appetite. Cassia seems to like bread a lot, but I don't give it to her much out of fear she may…get slightly fat on the carbs. Roman, he'll eat anything you give him." Caius chuckled as he felt two pairs of sharp teeth bit into his hand. "They are hungry for real blood, Rina. Feed them normally for the rest of the week on human food and then I'll go get some human blood while I and the others are hunting for them to feed on."
"I've only been giving them animal blood, Caius." She said firmly in Greek. "I won't have them feed on humans. Just the animals." Caius wrinkled his nose in disgust but merely shrugged. "If that is how you feel about their diet, then I find no harm in it." He allowed. Aikiterina sighed in relief at their first agreement and smiled own at the twins who began to pull her towards the front door with incredible strength.
"Mama, me want ricey and chicken." Cassia demanded. Roman tugged on Aikiterina's dress with a pout on his lips. "I didn't get milky, Materia." He told her as the others quickly followed behind. Caius lifted the boy into his arms and kissed him soundly on the cheek. "No milk for the rest of the week, my son." He said firmly as everyone got into the car. "Felix, where does she live again?"
"At the main luxury complex near the sixth quarter, master." Came the quiet reply. It didn't take them long to rach Aikiterina's apartment and Caius was rather impress by her Greek style décor mixed with the baby things all over the place. The only thing that was bugging him, was the scent of another man. Lover boy, Felix had dubbed him.
Well, he could easily fix that in two seconds flat.
"Papu, are you gonna kill Jake? We hate him." Cassia said sweetly as their mother's head snapped up in alarm. "Cassia! Watch your mouth at once!" She shrilled with a glare at Felix and Demetri who both happened to be chuckling with smiles on their faces. They hastily wiped them away with grumbles and crashed down on her white leather sofa with deep sighs of satisfaction.
"Hey, you got cable on here?" Demetri called behind him while flipping on the wide screen TV. Felix chucked him one as Caius growled a warning at the pair. Cassia was still demanding her father to answer her question while Roman followed his aunt for a bath in the bathroom when all of a sudden the doorbell rang. Everyone froze in their places as they heard four female voices demanding Aikiterina to open up the door or else they were going to bang it down. Aikiterina sent a panicked look at Caius from the kitchen fridge with a pack of raw chicken in her hands. He silently signed her in Greek to go ahead and opened it. Felix shut the TV off, flickering to go hid in one of the rooms with Demetri close behind while Atheodora came back in with a naked Roman in her arms.
"Aikiterina! We know you're in there. Open up!"
Aikiterina rushed over to look in the peep hole and gasped. "Ni! They have the landlord with them!" She cursed softly. Caius shook his head and pulled out several thousand dollar bills from his wallet. He walked over with his daughter attached to his right leg. "Open the door, Rina." He ordered with steel eyes. She unlatched the chain lock and stepped back as her female friends and the burly landlord with a balding head, barged inside only to come to an abrupt stop when they saw she wasn't alone. Caius glared his coldest at the group as Cassia sucked away on her thumb with wide hazel eyes at his feet. Roman began to growl in his tiny chest at them but Atheodora hastily covered his mouth with a cold hand and whispered something in his ear about behaving himself.
One of the women peered at Caius, open mouth before tuning to Aikiterina with wide eyes the size of saucer cups. "Who is he?" She asked with a French accent pointing at him with an accusing like finger while the others stared at him, Atheodora and back at her.
"He's my uh,…uh"
"I'm her husband." Caius said with a slight smirk when she shot him a dark look. The women gapped at her.
"What? Your husband?" They exclaimed together in disbelief. Aikiterina's face flushed red as they stared at her for an explanation.
"Well, I was leaving him quietly and I guess…he wants back now." She explained sheepishly while going back into the kitchen and cutting open the package of chicken with a sharp knife. Cassia made a small noise at her father's feet but made no other indication of her understanding what was going on as she made smacking noises with her lips. "Materia, hungry" She cried. Caius lifted her into his arms with a chuckle.
"Mama has to cook it first." He glared at the women and silently gave the landlord the bills in his hand. "I would leave if I were you sir. My wife needs her rest, surely you understand this, right?" he whispered in the man's ear. He gave Caius a glare that quickly turned into surprise when he glanced down at the amount. "Er, yeah. Sure. Uh, I'll just get going now." He said dazly as he quickly exited the apartment with a backward glance at everybody before slamming the door shut. Andrea, who been staring the longest at Caius, turned on Atheodora. "And who might you be?" She said suspisouly as she sized the vampire female from top to bottom. Atheodora smiled cheekily at her, widening her razor sharp teeth as she did. "I'm her new hired nanny. What are you? A party hard stripper?"
Loud gawphs exploded in the other room as Andrea tried to not lose it with this strange woman holding Roman as Caius again chuckled darkly and kissed Atheodora on the cheek. "Hey nanny, go get the twins cleaned up so they can eat dinner."
Atheodora threw a dirty stare at the four women as she took Cassia into her other arm and stalked off with her nose in the air. Felix walked into the living room with Demetri in tow behind him. Caius shook his head wearily. "I thought you guys were watching the TV in there." He growled at the pair. Demetri pretended to not hear his master as he walked over to the shocked women with his best smile and offered his hand.
"Valicimo! I'm Demetri and what are your lovely names?" He beamed as Felix snickered behind him and flickered into the kitchen when they weren't paying any mind to him. Aikiterina silently signed to him to get rid of her friends as each one made her round of introduction with a drunken laugh. Felix winked at her and smoothed back his hair. "I'll drive them home and he and I can hunt afterwards for a few hours." He whispered to her before walking back towards the group with keys in hand.
"Ok, where does everyone live, let's get going now, don't want to miss out on your beauty sleep, do you ladies?" he said as he had the flirting Italian usher them out while they protested on wanting Aikiterina to explain her husband. "I'm sure she will tell you tomorrow morning when everyone has a good old hangover." He joked as he slammed the door shut behind him. Caius sighed as he slowly walked up behind Aikiterina as she filled small rice pot with water at the sink. He roamed his hand slowly over her hips, drawing her against his body with a light nip at the neck as she laughed slightly and turned off the water.
"At this rate, Caius, the twins won't get fed if you keep that up." She reprimanded him in Greek as she put the pot in the cooker and turned it on. Caius washed his hands and took the knife from her. "I'll do this, you just get the other stuff from the fridge." He pointed with the knife as she raised an eyebrow at him. "What? I can still cook after three thousand years, you know. When Demetri couldn't do it at times, I did, woman." He said defensively as she grabbed celery, carrots, and snap peas from the fridge. Aikiterina gave him a kiss on the cheek as she set them down beside him while he swiftly cut the chicken into thin slices.
"Thank you, Caius." She said softly as she watched him lightly season the cut up meat with salt and pepper before throwing them three at a time in an oiled pan with olive oil. Caius smiled at her as he in a flash, wash the cutting board and knife in the sink and starting to work on the veggies while at the same time keeping an eye on the chicken as they quickly cooked. "I need to work with you on our relationship and the twins, Agape. Like I said back at the club, they need their father and he needs you to be by his side with him." He told her as he took the browned chicken from pan and placed them on a plate nearby. He took the pan off the burner and turned towards her with crossed arms. "When you left, I felt like I died inside. My body was numb, my mind in a whirlwind of wondering if I did something to make you run away from me, Theo, and my brothers. Hell, Felix and Demetri nearly drove me insane with their constant mistakes on things running smoothly back at home while I tried to keep my mask on and do my duty as a co-ruler. Things weren't the same without your laughter and the children, by the gods, I love them so much." Caius reached out, pulling Aikiterina into his strong arms as she began to quietly cry against his chest. "If you want to stay here, I'll let you stay here with Roman and Cassia. But I'm staying too if such is the case." He murmured in her hair.
"W-what a-a-about your duty as lord in Volturia?" She stammered. "You can't just leave because of me."
Caius smiled coldly. "Aro knows then to mess with me. No, I'm not the type to abandon my throne to someone else. We leave here for the spring, go back, stay till fall and come back here for the winter. Or, you return to Volturia and we get married." He added as he turned back to his cooking. Aikiterina sighed and leaned her cheek on his back as he worked swiftly.
"Only if you promise to not get made if I have another vision of something that involves you." She said.
"That is when you tell Theo about it and she would be able to explain the visions to you." Caius informed. "What you saw was your deepest fear of my vampire side. You feared my inhuman power of being who I am and so ran out on me. If I had known you were having such thoughts, I would have assured that such a thing would not happen unless I change you."
"Papou, Materia!" The twins cried hungrily as they rushed in a blur into the kitchen and climbed into her arms. Spite clean and dressed in pink and blue smocks, they watched Caius expertly flip the veggies into the pan along with the season chicken. Cassia cooed at her father's sharp vampire reflexes, begging him to do it again while her brother tried to imitate him with his short arms with a scream of delight. "Again papou! I want see." Roman babbled. Caius chuckled and handed him and Cassia a piece of chicken to tide them over until he finished cooking. "Why don't you go change and I can watch the twins till you get back, Rina." He told her. Aikiterina put Roman and Cassia down just as Atheodora walked into the kitchen looking for them.
"Oh there you two are, I was wondering where you blurred off to." She said smiling. Aikiterina gave her a small thank you kiss on the cheek. "I'm glad you came with Caius, Theo. Roman and Cassia seem really happy to see you here." The vampire watched the twins walked over toward the living room together as they snacked happily on their chicken. "They are a special gift from the gods to you, Rina. Caius and I only want you to be happy." Atheodora flickered into the living room as Aikiterina shook her head and headed toward her bedroom to go change into something more comfortable.
Needless to say, she was still in a tizzy from Caius's unexpected arrival in France in order to find his family. She felt relieved on one hand that he went through so much to search for them, but could she really overcome her fear of his vampire side and look upon him as the same man she had loved all those centuries ago? Given she was unable still to fully recall their shared ancient past and how they might have lived together if it hadn't been for his untimely 'death' and her own brought about by unimaginable grief over her loss over him. Aikiterina stared long and hard in the full length mirror at her reflection of the young woman she had grown into in the last year. Ask her at the beginning of the year if she believed in fate or destiny, and she would have said that no such thing existed, along with vampires, the other legends and myths that were apparently, so real in her world of where humans like her laugh and make movies out of.
But now…she was a part of the mythical world that he lived in. His flesh and blood, wife, soul mate, and the mother of his seeds. Aikiterina turned away from the mirror and changed into a revealing blue silk lacy bra and panties that enhanced her slender figure just a touch to give the eyes a place to follow. She combed and brushed her long hair out, plaiting it into a loose Greek bun and securing it with her ivory pins he had given her one day after giving birth to their children. He seemed to prefer that she didn't wear anything scented on her person but for tonight, she sprayed a small squirt behind her ears and wrist of rose scented perfume and threw on a floor length chikton secured with sterling silver bands over her upper arms and shoulders. Satisfied with the results, Aikiterina reached for her purse on her nightstand and withdrew the sun medallion into her hand. Cold at first when not touching her skin with its dark gleaming ruby jewel. It softly pulsed to life as she slipped it around her neck the medallion nestled in between her small breasts with its soft fiery swirls of light within. Tonight was the night when everything changed for the both of them, but not only for her and Caius, but also for all who was involved in their lives. She smiled at her reflection one last time and briskly walked out of the bedroom.
Caius was placing her and twins dinner on the table when he looked up and nearly dropped Roman's plate on the floor if Atheodora hadn't reached out and caught it in time. She glanced up to see what had caused him such a distraction, smiling inward to herself as she caught sight of Rina, dressed in a Greek style dress and looking her best as she came over and sat down next to the twins. Caius tore his eyes from the beautiful sight of his woman with a clinched jaw. His cock was beginning to harden in his pants just thinking of the way she was dressed. "Leave it to a woman to rule the horse". He quoted his favorite line from Aristotle's love poems. "And you shall rule with her as one mind and soul." He forced himself to appear calm and reserve outwardly as he sat down and helped Cassia learn how to eat without making a mess all over the place. Being they were only ten months old, they still were a long ways off from fully learning at a human pace of how to eat properly without all the vampire growls and snarls at each other. Cassia began to cry when he didn't allow her to steal from Roman's plate, but with a sharp reprimand from her father, she quickly learned that stealing would only make him made and get Roman in trouble when he bit her hand for doing so.
"My lord, this is really good, Caius." Aikiteirna praised brightly at she hungrily ate away at the meal he prepared. Caius smiled secretively to himself while wiping Roman's messy mouth with a napkin. She was going to like something even more so afterward when the children were asleep and he was giving her punishment full dose.
"Told you I could cook. It's not like it's a lost art among us vampires, Rina." Cassia was licking away at her plate as Roman copied her with a gleeful gaa! "The twins need to learn manners on the other hand." He said mildly as he took their empty plates away while Theo wiped their mouths clean.
"Materia, what dat?" Cassia asked when she was able to talk again, pointing at her mother's glowing necklace with a chubby finger. Roman reached out and touched the medallion with his hand before pulling away a second later with squeal of pain. Caius flickered back in the room in a heartbeat as he heard his son's loud crying reach a fevered pitch.
"What happened?"
Aikiteirna was holding her son in her arms while he let out a gut wrenching howl with bit tears streaming down his chubby checks as Cassia joined in full fever. "I don't know! He touched the necklace and then started to cry a second later." She replied in distress. "Roman, let daddy see your hand." She coaxed in a soft voice while holding onto his little arm. Roman whimpered in baby protest, but did as he was told as his father whispered soothing words in Latin to him as he gently took his son's hand and pried open fingers. The baby's little inside palm had a strange sun mark on the inside with seven rays around the edges. There were red wilts where he had been burned but where quickly disappearing to thin black lines like a tattoo as Caius turned his hand this way and that in the light with a deep frown on his face.
"This is a mark for the sun god Apollo." He exclaimed in surprise. Atheodora gasped sharply as her husband's words slowly sunk into meaning in her head.
"If one is marked by the Sun god, than the second one is not far behind on the other half." She breathed. They all turned as one toward Cassia and found her staring down at her own hand with wide hazel eyes.
Caius reached over and smiled at her. "Cassia, let me see your hand, baby." He encouraged. Cassia was no longer crying as she let him take her hand and stared at her mother for comfort. Aikiteirna smiled at her and nodded her head. "It's all right now, daddy's going to make it better." There on her palm also was a mark, but this one was the moon with eight stars around the circle in silver and gold ink. The mark shimmered when he turned it towards the light above to see better.
"Aro will want to be informed of this soon." He sighed as he stood up and gave the twins a kiss on the head. Aikiterina 's face paled. "Will he want to see if they can…" She trailed off staring at the twins as they solemnly looked back at her with their wide baby eyes. Caius shook his head. "Nie, they are much too young to be able to display such powers, Rina. But this puts me at a hard end of a rock and a cliff. Should someone know of our children outside the castle walls, Roman and Cassia, including you, are in danger."
"But surly one would not dare hurt me and the twins, right?" Aikiteirna said in a panicked voice. "They are only babies for God sake! Your children, Caius." The blond vampire's face openly showed a brief flicker of what she was feeling before he hid it behind a scowl. "There are some in this world that would be glad that I and my brother didn't exist as their so-called rulers over the vampire world. We only work to keep our kind a secret from the humans and live at peace with them. But, should one learn of a particular's weakness, then they would pounce on the opportunity given to them like a pack of hungry wolves on a dead deer. I would let anyone hurt you and our children, I swear to you on my honor as your mate and father of my flesh."
"We will need to depart for Volturia as soon as possible, Caius." Atheodora advised as she scooped the twins for bed. "But for one night, shall we just forget what has happed and enjoy one another's company? I'm sure you and Rina wish to be alone for a while." She said with a smile as she walked towards the twin's bedroom. Caius and Aikiteirna stared after her before Aikiteirna sighed heavily and walked off towards her bedroom. Caius followed her silently as they reached her door and went inside. He firmly shut the door behind him as she walked into the bathroom and softly the bathroom door from his sight.