Bloodbreeders: The Revenge (29 page)

“Well, you sure scared the shit out of me, sister,” Derek walked over and laid his arm over my shoulder.

I was about to crack up, but then I saw Brandon walk over and pick up the small lifeless form of the baby, which we could all see was a little girl. He pulled his shirt off with one hand and wrapped her in it, then put her back in the chest. “I’m gonna go bury her by Ash, she’ll watch over her.” Then he left the estate. I told Derek to go get the others from the safe room and waved up to the chamber maids to come down and join us. My heart went out to Tammy, when she came out. She was visibly shaking and a far bit paler than her normal self. Johnny resumed his playing on the foyer floor with Jessie and Tanda, while the rest us talked about what had happened.

“He’ll run,” Tammy said. “He fears death more than any creature that I’ve ever seen.”

“Then he’ll be an easy kill,” Jacob crossed his arms and stretched out his legs.

“They’re leaving,” Brandon yelled running back through the doors.

“See, he is nothing but a coward,” Tammy added, gaining a new found strength.

“Do you know where he’s going?” I asked.

“Oh yeah, I know. If he thinks that I’m dead and not here to give his little secrets away, then he’ll be headed back to his hideaway on the coast of Georgia.”

“Georgia is the place where many of our kind have made a place of rest from there long travels over the water. Even you own a very nice home there, Renee.” Jacob spoke with his eyes closed.

“Yes, mother use to stay there with me when father would take Jacob to war,” Jessie concurred.

“Mother? You two have a mother out there waiting for you to come home?” I asked, now more confused than ever.

“Not a real mother, Chin’s wife. She wanted a child and he wanted a true warrior. When
they took our real mother’s village, they found her pregnant, not knowing she carried two. We were told she died giving birth, but we both know that to be a lie. Jessie would have been put to death, but Shea wanted a girl child to keep her company. They raised us as normal children until we turned fifteen. It was then that we learned of their true nature, and well, the rest speaks for its self, does it not?” Jacob stood with the sorrow of remembering on his face.

“Where is this Shea, now?”

“She has gone to her home in China. It is something that she does every twenty years to mourn the murder of her family,” Jessie replied, running her hand over the back of Johnny’s head. “It is the only time that I am allowed to spend time with my brother.”

“Do you think she knows her husband’s dead?”

“The moment that he expired,” Jacob raised one brow.

“This cannot be good,” Derek interjected, shaking his head and getting a pop from his brother.

“Then let me ask you this. Will she stay in her homeland and leave us be, or will she gather some, I don’t know, massive army to kill us?” I pulled the uncomfortable dress up and squatted to sit down on the step where Jacob had recently been on the staircase. Jacob looked to his sister to answer; I got nervous.

“She spoke often of wanting to be away from his abuse. She said that she wished he had never come to her father’s home that night, because they would not have died and her lineage would have lived on. She told me this in confidence, that she thought many times of taking his life, but she feared what he would do if she failed.”

The words she spoke made perfect sense to me, not to mention, taking the likes of an anvil off of my chest. The rage I felt for the death of my family brought my blood to a high boil. I knew exactly what Shea felt, when it came to wishing that her maker would have never shown up. I had wished the same thing myself many times.

“She would bow at your feet for freeing her from her prison. You have no need to worry her wrath,” Jacob explained, taking a seat on the floor next to his sister.

“Well, that’s one thing. Now we need to get ourselves ready to go after Tammy’s old Master,” I stated looking over to where she was now sitting on one of the high backed chairs, braiding the hair of one of the chamber maids.

“I really don’t want to leave my dad’s boat behind, Renee. Is there any way that we can tie it to the back of Jacob’s ship? If it doesn’t work, I can keep up,” Sydney said leaning on the wall by the front door.

“I’ll help him,” Derek added stepping up.

“Yeah, me too. I really like that boat,” Brandon said. “It has some good memories for us. Ash loved it.” They had lost a great deal. I understood them wanting to hold on to their good memories and the memory of Ashley and the boat held both.

“Alright, but once we get to the place that Jacob was talking about in Georgia, we tie it down and then we all go on as one.”

“Oh, thank you. You don’t know how much that old thing means to me.” Sydney smiled for the first time since that night and it was wonderful.

“The ship has several normals and we can place a few on Lord Sydney’s boat so that we can travel day and night.”

Things were starting to become as close to normal as any of us could expect and a plan was set. We were going to go after Tammy’s maker first. Then make our way to Chin’s old home and our new safe haven in Georgia. Jacob had said that the men who guarded the place would do anything that I told them to do, just by seeing him and Jessie with me. I hadn’t mentioned anything to the others of my intentions in finding Martin—not yet. I would make sure that we made our way up the east coast, after we took care of the matters at hand. I wanted to leave the younger ones in the safest place possible, because I would never make the same mistakes I made coming here. I would find him, even if it meant going all the way to London. I had created my own world now and Martin being my maker, was nothing more than a title. The feelings that flowed from one direction to another in my heart, hating then loving, were a completely different story.

The boat was fully loaded with all the livestock that we could carry. We also took all of the money that Yvette had in her safe, which had been hidden in her private quarters. We took it to pay the normals that we were going to be using along the journey. Those that gave aid to our kind, which opened another issue in my mind, one that Jacob would have to explain when we had the free time, because they would have to answer for their crimes as well. Chin’s boat held more than enough room for all of us and several more. The normals on what was now our ship, had to be re-marked by me, but welcomed my approach without fear. Although it was necessary, that didn’t mean that it didn’t make me gag. Some were in need of a bath and left a foul taste in my mouth.

The bloodbreeders that worked the ship were somewhat different in their reaction to me, until Jacob showed them Chin’s medallion. The one from his own family’s lineage, and one used only by Chin’s highest ranking ancestors. By the time I boarded the ship they had all taken a knee, and given me their alliance. I had not given any of them the order to stand. I wanted them to do as I said until the time came when I didn’t need them any longer. I would then set them free to do as they pleased, whether it be becoming one of us, or leaving to make a life of their own. They were to do as they wished, as long as they ran the ship as they always had, and under Jacob’s order.

Sydney wasn’t able to tie his boat to the ship, so he and my two little ones would follow close behind with two normals caring for them during the light of day. Dawn was close at hand when Jacob and Garvin finally made their way back to the ship and we were able to make way. I stood at the back of the ship as the sky became dangerously light, but I had to see the flames engulf the place that I considered worse than hell. I smiled thinking of Enrique. I imagined him screaming for mercy in the depths of its inferno. Smashing his one hand on the gruesome wall of his encasement, and kicking with his only leg as the gore attached itself to his body, until the final day that starvation would take his miserable life.

“Renee, you must come below,” Jacob said coming up behind me.

“Isn’t that the most beautiful sight that you’ve ever seen?”

He didn’t answer; he just smiled and took my hand. The lower portion of the ship was nothing like I had imagined. It was elaborately decorated and looked more like the inside of a castle, than a ship. There were two lanterns sitting in the center of an intricately carved table. It was placed in the middle of, but at the back of the large room. Jacob had called it the Master’s private sanctuary; now we called it our home on the water. Johnny was already asleep on the biggest bed that I had ever seen. It was more than likely big enough for all of us, and I was more
than sure that the three boys in the boat that followed were asleep as well. Jessie and Tammy were already down on the two black velvet sofas that were set on one side of the large room. Tanda and Garvin were holding each other and talking amongst themselves. It was the first time in their fifty years of being bloodbreeders that they had seen the freedom of the outside world, and the elation of it showed on their faces. The three chamber maids whose names I could hardly recall, stayed with the other workers on the ship, willingly wanting to serve.

I went over and curled my body around my precious little brother, who for now, called me Mommy. I kissed his tiny hand, then his forehead, thanking the stars that I had found him. I then said a quick prayer that he would grow and not stay in this small form forever, knowing my prayers would go unanswered. I felt the bed move shortly after, then felt Tanda’s hand on my arm and her head at the center of my back. A few minutes later Garvin slid in on the other side of Johnny. We laid there looking into each other’s eyes as Jacob turned the lanterns out, bathing the room in darkness. Soon after the pull of the day took me from my many thoughts, and for the first time in a very long time, I lay in peace surrounded by those that I loved and that I knew loved me.

In the depths of my mind was my mother cooking at the stove, smiling and waving out of the kitchen window at my father who was climbing up on the tractor. My brothers and little Edna ran around the yard playing kick ball. It must have been God’s way of showing me that they were at peace, and I was doing the right thing.

Robin Renee Ray is known as a Multi-genre Author. She's only been writing for seven years, but has come to love everything about the world of being a novelist. She began in the paranormal romance/dark fantasy genre, jumping into horror, then right into suspense thrillers. 20 novels and numerous short stories later, she is well on her way! She resides in Southern New Mexico with her husband, David, and lives very close to her two granddaughters.

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Other works by this author
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Bloodbreeders: Living in Darkness

Coming soon
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Bloodbreeders: Seeking Others

Bloodbreeders: Lies Beneath London

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Arrival of the Prophecy

Uncertain meanings

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The Tale of Two Toodlegnomes

Bren Woodard: Hatred With a Passion

When She Wakes

After Hours