The Bewitching Countess of the Villa Ersandmyne

Pg. 71

As the Elders came out of the castle Magnus looked and saw so many that had come or were already there and although he didn't show it his insides felt like throwing up what he had drank for breakfast at thinking that the son that grew up in his home, his son could cause so many people such hurt, pain, and affliction.

How? Why? What had these people done to him for him to do the things he had done? Why couldn't he have been like Lucius who was quiet and was a likable moroi, someone who didn't look for trouble and no one ever came to say anything bad about him, no, it was always about him that people talked. 

But what was done can't be undone and it's time to get rid of this thorn once and forever as well as the rest of his followers fuckers. He had received word that almost all of the vessels and all others that helped in the different towns of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Bilbao, and San Sebastian and other towns around there had been captured and were on the way to Rioja with a moroian guard escort because otherwise, they would not make it as they would be killed on the way.

Those would be judged at a later time as they would not make it tonight thought Magnus. "Elijah, please fetch the prisoner, Nathiel go with him." "Yes, Elder Magnus." All the other prisoners were already there and they knew that they shouldn't have taken a vow because things had changed. They didn't dare look at Valentina or Isabella. They had seen them fight on the field and knew that what Bartholomew had told them was a lie maybe if they threw themselves on the mercy of the court maybe the Elders would spare their life.

Elijah was bringing Bartholomew out and everyone looked at him thinking about how he said he would never be in shackles and now here he was in shackles and about to face the very people he had stolen from be it food, monetary, or by taking the lives of their loved ones, people that he beat just for the hell of it, and people he did so much other evil doings to and he considered it something playful but to them, it was suffering and when they saw him come around they only had one thing to do... HIDE!!

Now they had the chance to speak and stop hiding, a chance to show him that they hid to keep their families alive but no matter where they hid, or what they did he snatched their souls from even their children damning them to hell.

When Bartholomew lifted his head he saw all the people who were there either to testify against him or just see him get his punishment and he didn't give a fuck. He had enjoyed his eons and he didn't regret anything he had done. All the Elders could kiss his ass including his fucking father whom he didn't give a shit about. He was so into his thoughts that he hadn't noticed the agonizing look Magnus had on his face and this was because Valentina had somehow reached into his mind and made his thoughts deep within each of the elder's minds and they had 'heard' every word he had thought in her mind.

"Bart, why do you have to cause me such heartache? Why did you have to see it in your heart to bring such pain to all these people who have never done anything to you? What could you have possibly gained from the evil you created, from the stealing, the killing, leaving destruction and tears in your path? And a question I have been waiting eons to ask you, Why did you feel the need to murder your brother and his wife doing it in front of his beautiful daughters, in front of my beautiful granddaughters? Why Bart?"

"Granddaughters? You call those test tubes wanna be moroaică your granddaughters? Huh, I laugh, Did your precious son as I know you don't see me as your son." "Bart, enough of your stupidities, you are the one who has removed yourself from my once beating heart as up to this day I'm sure you plotted with Cavalchi to murder your mother as you did your brother and sister-in-law."