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Watch Yourself

Chapter Three

Eve opened the door and pulled Adam into her arms. David followed close behind her as they moved from the garage to the manor. Once inside Tanis met them at the door and took the bag of weapons from David's hands. The bag contained numerous guns, grenades, blades, and extra ammunition all to kill any lycans that crossed their path. But they were all unneeded for once.

Adam stirred in Eve's arms but settled again a moment later. The fast movements of the car had lulled him to sleep. She looked down at her slumbering brother in her arms and smiled. He truly was beautiful with their mother's dark hair, father's cheek bones and the fair skin that came with being a vampire.

Sometimes she wished that he was the older one and not her. But then she wouldn't have David.

The old historian walked into the parlor just as David finished starting a new fire. Tanis approached Eve and offered to take Adam and put him to bed since their houseguest had awakened. She shook her head and clutched her brother closer to her chest.

"Love, you should let him rest," David said, sitting next to her on the love seat.

Eve shook her head again and looked at her husband. "No, David. You know how he is. He won't sleep in his room until Mom and Dad get back." David met her gaze and knew it was true. The last time Selene and Michael left the manor for more than a day he threw a fit and refused to step foot in there.

"You're right," he sighed, running a hand through his brother-in-law's hair. "We should let him sleep with us tonight then." Eve smiled and kissed David lightly on the lips upon hearing that.

Tanis turned his attention away from the two lovers and focused on the dark, shadowy figure that appeared in the doorway. "Good evening, Erazebet," he greeted, watching as she glided into the room and took a seat beside him.

Erazebet gave him a tight smile without really looking at him. She hated living there at Alvóház. She hated the entire coven of abominations. These hybrids were freaks, outcasts, among their society and yet they seemed to be so loved by many. Erazebet simply didn't understand how that traitor Selene could fall in love with that thing, that lycan, and have their two hybrid offspring.

And to think, she had liked Tanis as a sexual partner once upon a time. Now he's like them. A hybrid. A freak.

Tanis stared unabashedly at Erazebet as she glared into the fire.

It wasn't odd to see her do that. She didn't keep her hatred of him and the Corvins secret after all.

Erazebet was beautiful with her dark hair that was a stark contrast to her pale face. Her features were sharp, making her all the more alluring with her deep set grey eyes and pouty lips. She was petite and thin in the extreme, barely reaching his shoulder at his unimpressive five feet nine inches making him taller than Selene and Eve but shorter than both Michael and David.

He wished at times that Selene hadn't saved him all of those years ago then he would still be like Erazebet. And maybe he would have been able to sink his fangs into her delectable flesh and fuck her senseless just once. Then again, if Selene hadn't saved him he wouldn't be alive right now.

But if he was still a simple vampire it might not have changed her opinion of him since he consciously decided to live with the Corvins.

The small vampire met his gaze and her eyes softened for a moment with what he perceived as regret but couldn't be sure as her eyes hardened again becoming frozen pools of silver. Tanis opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong but paused at the sound of something growling on the grounds.

The four of them fell silent and listened. Six, maybe seven, distinct growls issued before the telltale howl of a lycan was heard.

"Shit," David hissed lowly. He turned to Eve and saw that she had transformed her eyes wide with anger and fright as she clutched tightly at Adam.

Eve ran the back of her hand against David's face, eyes softening just a bit. "Go. Do what you have to but come back to me, David." He nodded furiously at her request and kissed her hard, making her forget for a moment what was happening and change back. They broke apart and went their separate ways; Eve up the stairs with a still sleeping Adam in her arms and David to the armory in the cellar with an angry Erazebet and panicked Tanis hot on his heels.

Tanis watched David anxiously as the young vampire grabbed two semiautomatic pistols. He also grabbed his ulak blade. Erazebet was at his back, equipping herself with the ancient silver broadsword she had brought with her to Alvóház and a pistol of her own.

The old historian wasn't a fighter. Selene called him a coward on a daily basis and he didn't even try to deny it. He barely even knew how to shoot a gun.

David glanced over at Tanis. "I need you to lock the manor down and make sure nothing gets in." He nodded and ran off to do what was asked of him, grateful that he wasn't handed a gun and expected to fight.

The young vampire hybrid walked out and onto the grounds of the manor with Erazebet close behind him. They ran to the front of the manor just in time for all hell to break loose.

lycans came at them from all sides.

Erazebet was not a seasoned warrior but she was brave. She shot continuously at the three lycans that had surrounded her until the clip emptied. Two fell dead, transforming back into humans as liquid silver nitrate spilled from their bodies. She unsheathed her sword and swung widely as two more lycans replaced the ones she had killed.

They growled and hissed at the little vampire before leaping at her, teeth bared.

On another part of the lawn David shot and killed the lycans that targeted him with precision until both clips of his pistols emptied. One to the head and another two to the heart for good measure. Seven lycans fell dead. In the back of his mind, David wondered what caused this onslaught to happen. It wasn't an everyday occurrence that an entire pack of lycans decided to attack them at the same time that both Selene and Michael had left the manor.

Forced to discard his guns, he pulled out his ulak blade and went toe to huge claw with the first lycan he set eyes on. The filthy beast swung one of its massive paws at his head but David dodged it and quickly slashed at the throat before jamming the pointed edge of the blade into its head.

Blood sprayed from the beast, splattering his face. David hissed, eyes turning electric blue as his fangs grew. Without pause he gave the same treatment to the others that attacked him.

A scream sounded echoing over the trees just as the last lycan fell to the ground.

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