The Venantium Auallonia Trilogy: Summer Tide

Chapter 8: Decisions, Decisions

         "Dawn , could you please answer me? I really want to know what's going on here." he scowled and glared at Emery in disgust. Emery growled in response.

I looked up at Maverick with my eyes narrowed, where the courage came from I have no idea, but it was there; pulsing clearly in my veins. "Emery wanted to surprise me since he missed my birthday, and I accepted the invitation. I can tell you have a problem with it, I know you hate him, but that does not give you the right to barge into my personal discretions kicking and screaming about what you want. Grow up already!"

"You were not invited, angel. So I suggest you take your leave like a gentlemen for the benefit of Dawn's presence." Emery growled deeper as he talked through his bared fangs. His eyes looked lethal, and his expression screamed hunter and protector.

Maverick turned on him after looking at me in mute shock for defending Emery, but his look changed to a fierce mask. "Oh really? You want me to 'take my leave'? If I leave, I'm taking my girl with me. You got a problem with that?" he moved closer to Emery to the point where they were looking each other only inches apart, "Come on, vamp, show me how you can protect her. I know the sunlight still stings you. I bet you still crave human blood. Bite me, I dare you!" Emery stiffened in response, posed to strike. He hissed, and threw

an unnoticeable punch across Maverick's face. "I don't drink such wasted lives, and blood from a child of the light will kill me, you fool."

"You son of a---" Maverick shouted, clearly ready to fight him. Seeing the rage in his eyes made my mind click into action, leaping between them, I thrust a firm hand on both of their chest to keep them from fighting to the death...well not so much in Emery's case.

"STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!" I screamed at both of them, " What has gotten into you two? I came here to spend time with Emery, and you just pissed me off by coming here just to start a fight with him! Now tell me what the hell it is you want before I really get mad."

Emery growled again, so deep in his chest that it was extremely menacing, but it didn't scare me. Not even while is eyes glowed like a predator, and the testosterone filled the air like smoke.

I decided to threaten him, "If you don't glue your fangs shut, and silence that damn growling, I won't think twice about kicking your ass. I'm not kidding!"

His incisors showed as he smiled at me, and his eyes dimmed down to their normal color. They were wicked. "I'd love to see you try, sweetheart," he teased.

Maverick looked at me with accusing eyes, and I just glared. This was not what I had planned for tonight. Let alone finding out that my boyfriend was the walking dead with fangs. He looked directly from my eyes to Emery's stern expression. "Fine, I came here, because I got word for The Light Council that a few of their Guardians have disappeared mysteriously in the past few weeks in this immediate area. They contacted The Dark Council in order to sort out the conflict, but the shadows have no idea where it could be coming from. The only coven of vampires in this area is civilized, a family of three. The Dark Order has no idea of your existence do they, Emery?"

A deep grumble reverbrated in Emery's chest, his grip tightened on my arm, and he yanked my behind him, leaving me to peek over his shoulder. He looked Maverick straight in the eye without even blinking; I don't even think he was breathing. "Dawn does not know of these weaknesses and faults, and I wish her to never know. Now I suggest you leave at once before I do something that will upset her."

"Oh! You didn't tell her the specifics of our hidden worlds? I'm surprised with your history, Emery," Maverick looked down to me in a smile, he liked this a lot; revealing secrets about Emery that I never knew. It must be his way of payback. "You see, The Dark and Light Councils are the democracy of the Hidden World. In other words, everything but animals and humans and ordinary plants.