Welcome to the Family

Part 7

*Damon’s Point of View*

“Hey man!” Manuel said as I walked into the Las Bestias underground bar. After Jezebel left the clearing, Sasha and I stayed and played for a bit.

“Hola. How’s everything around here?” I bent down and unhooked Sasha from her leash so she could go play. All of the members knew what she meant to me, so they all got along with her. Some even kept treats with them.

“Good. Ivan is feeling better. Andres is with him now, being his older brother and all. He’s still a little bit pissed.” Manuel gave me the full run down of everything before handing me a beige file.

His hair was buzzed off since he got it cut a couple of days ago. Manuel had muscle, seeing as he was the President he had to be able to protect himself and others. Strangely enough Manuel had very light almost hazel eyes. They are nothing like his dads or moms so we think that his mom might have whored herself around. He’s tall as well.

“Gracias. Has Ivan’s initiation been planned yet?” Glancing through the file that Manuel just gave me, I didn’t find anything important. Just a mafia meeting that was being held in a couple of weeks. The same type of meeting that I met Jezebel at two years ago.

Oh Jezebel. Just thinking about her has my stomach in knots. I’m a man so I don’t get butterflies. Hell that is a lie. I get butterflies a lot when I think about her. It probably isn’t healthy that I love her so much. Is it love? Or just an obsession? I don’t know her well enough to pin point if it’s love. Probably just an obsession. An unhealthy one for sure.

“Si.” Manuel cut me out of my thoughts. “They want it to be tonight. I told Andres that I would talk to you first.” I motioned Manuel over to the bar to our right so I could get a corona before answering. I was thinking about emailing Jezebel tonight, but I could do that after the initiation.

I looked around the dark red walls of the club before replying, “Yeah I’ll do it tonight. Don’t tell Ivan about it yet though. It needs to be a surprise.”

“Sounds good. I’ll make the arrangements.” Manuel scurried off with his beer. Probably to make some calls. That boy loves everything organized and making lists. If all Family members were disorganized and chaotic, nothing would ever get done.

I took one last drink of my beer before standing up and whistling for Sasha, who came over quickly. She was a well trained dog. My father trained her for me when I was a kid. Oh Papi.

Exciting the club, I got into my Jaguar and pulled out of the parking lot. This was sort of our secret place. We held all of our meetings in a room that was in the basement of the club called Krave. We were in the process of moving our location. My father preferred to have it here, but since I’m King now I can relocate us to our own building.

It only took 15 minutes to get to my mansion in the woods. Luckily I was 18 when both my parents died. So I got to stay living in the mansion instead of getting put into the system. Now I only lived with my butler Chester.

The front door of my house was big and a cherry brown color. The outside was huge and sometimes when it was dark enough and there were no lights on upstairs, it blended into the dark forest. There was a white fountain in the middle of the round about drive way, my mothers touch. During the day when there was plenty of sun, it was bright. Usually though, outside of the house was dim considering that the trees were very tall and blocked out the sun.

I parked my car and made my way to the door with Sasha at my side. She never did like it when I wasn’t with her. I unlocked the wood door because I didn’t want to bother Chester. He basically raised me with my mom since my dad had to be away for Family business all the time. Outside of the house it looked dark and scary, but on the inside was designed differently. Big furniture, sculptures, and bright colors.

I threw my keys on the little end table near the door before making my way to my room so I could put Jezebel’s email into my computer. After Ivan’s initiation tonight I’ll email her. And soon hopefully I’ll be able to get her number or the very least the email that she uses more frequently.

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We saw him walk out of the grocery store by himself with only one bag. Thankfully there was an alley close by so we could shove him into there without any fuss from bystanders that are trying to be heroes. Getting out of the car with Manuel and Andres we blended into the shadows while making our way to Ivan. It was more fun when the initiation was a surprise.

He didn’t see us coming. We were all dressed in black plus it was really dark out. Manuel and Andres were on either side of him in a flash and pulled him into the alley when he was getting close to it. I entered the alley three seconds later.

“Pinche de su madres! Dejar ir!” Ivan rambled on furiously in Spanish. He was squirming a bit, but Manuel and Andres could handle him.

“Ivan are you ready to be a part of Las Bestias?” I asked him in a commanding voice that my father taught me a couple of months before he died.

“Damon? Is that you?” Ivan immediately stopped resisting once everything clicked into his mind. “Si, yo soy.”

I drew the knife from my back pocket and Manuel pulled up Ivan’s shirt. I stepped closer to him and positioned the knife to his left side. This was going to hurt a lot. Ivan seemed a little nervous, but props to him because he kept contact with my eyes until I glance down to his stomach. While the breeze started to pick up I slashed into Ivan’s side. All cuts that the members got during initiation were on the left side. Ivan gasped a little bit, probably thinking the cut wouldn’t be that deep.

“Welcome to the Family Ivan.” I told him with a smile while running my hand that wasn’t holding the knife through my brown hair. The wind was making it go into my eyes.

“That’s it? I’m apart of the Family?” Taking his shirt off and pressing it to his wound, Ivan couldn’t keep the smile off of his face.

“Now all is left is to get the tattoo hermano.” Andres told him. He was excited to have his brother in the Family with him, I could tell.

“You can get it on your chest or back.” Manuel put in.

“Catch you guys later, I have some things to tend to. Congratulations Ivan, you have two weeks to get your tattoo done.” I started towards my bike that was parked a couple blocks down. I needed to get home so I could send that email to Jezebel. Doing it on my phone wouldn’t be good because I already know I’ll be smiling the entire time I write it.

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Sorry Damons chapters aren't always as long as Jezebels. I just have trouble with his point of view I guess.

Song of the day: Truth or Dare by Marianas Trench. I've had this song on repeat the entire time I've been writing this chapter. Be warned it's kind of a sexual song ;)

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