Searching for the Monster's Child :.Book 3 in the Delfunie Trilogy.:

Chapter 9

The next morning, things moved slowly. No one wanted to get up and no one was in a hurry to get going. Not even myself, as much I wanted to find my son, this morning was sluggish. Ragnar slowly made his way to anything he could use as a bathroom but I decided to wait until we found a gas station. I looked for Lucian but I couldn't find him. He seemed to vanish.

"Hey, I'm going to clean up the blankets in the car." I said as I limped over to the where the blankets were still laying out. I sat down on the floor and started folding them and putting them in the compartments under the seat.

Lucian came over the and sat down, helping me fold. I just looked at him in amazement.

"What?" He asked.

"Nothing." He didn't buy it. "It's nothing. Seriously it's just...it's just that I didn't even know you knew how to fold a shirt let alone a blanket." I answered laughing. He laughed with me for a minute before looking back towards the guys. He seemed to be thinking about something but when he looked back at me, I could see something in his eyes that just wasn't right. Not to me anyway.

That's when it happened. He leaned forward to kiss me. I leaned away as best I could which wasn't far but it was for enough for him to get the picture.

"Come on, Mavis. You're telling me you'd rather have my brother over me?" Was he serious?

"Come on. Don't think just let it happen." He tried again but this time I pushed him and he fought back. He didn't hit me but he was trying to restrain me.

"Lucian, let me go. Stop, you're hurting me! STOP!" I was able to hold my own but with my leg the way it is, it was difficult. I was only able to do so much and he was starting to win the battle.

"Lucian, get the hell away from her!" I heard one of the guys yell. Lucian pushed me so hard that I fell out of the car and onto the cold dirt.

"Ragnar, I was...she was coming on to me. I tried to restrain her to keep her away. I don't even know what happened. I'm sorry." Ragnar looked down at me and I saw no doubt in his eyes. Nothing that would suggest him being mad or angry with me.

"Ragnar, after everything we've been through, you have to believe that I wouldn't do that to you. It's not true." I said calmly. He dropped his eyes slightly before nodding one and looking back at Lucian. He started to take a few steps forward and only stopped when he was right in front of him. He looked him up and down and suddenly, hit him square in the jaw. With an expression of pain, Lucian hit the ground. I jumped slightly as he fell, really not expecting that to happen.

"Who the hell do you think you are? She is my wife. Don't you think you've taken enough from me that you think you're entitled my wife as well? I don't think so. Now get the hell out of my sight before I kill you myself like I should have months ago." I've never seen this side of Ragnar before and honestly, it scared me. Alex was sitting next to me, making sure I was okay and Richard was behind Ragnar, ready if anything escalated any further.

"Oh, you think you're better, because you have the girl and the kids? You really think you're better?" Lucian was suddenly angry if he wasn't before, he didn't show it. He stood, instantly getting in Ragnar's face. Back when I first met the both of them, before I ever knew they were brothers, Ragnar was terrified of Lucian, submissive to his master, but now he didn't even flinch, didn't even bat an eye at the man in front of him.

"Yeah, I am better than you. I didn't become a monster, I didn't force women into getting pregnant and killing them, I would never take a child away from its mother, and I would never kiss my own brother's wife, no matter how horrible they've acted." Lucian was suddenly nose to nose with Ragnar, looking into his eyes as best he could. Even human, Lucian is shorter than Ragnar by a few inches.

"You think you scare me, brother? Not in the slightest. I may be human now, but I am still stronger, Eugene." I tried to stay, to do anything that might stop a fight between the two of them but Alex held me down, he stopped me from standing knowing I was too hurt as it was.

"I will no longer bow at your feet, Lucian. I am no longer afraid of you. I no longer fear what you can do to me. Now leave. Walk away from us and never come back, brother." Lucian looked Ragnar up and down before realizing he has no power here. Ragnar is truly no longer afraid and that meant he had nothing left here, no dominance, no fear, nothing. He couldn't win.

"Lucian, I will only ask once, leave. And if dare send anyone to hurt these men or Mavis in anyway, I will kill you myself." With the threat out in the open for everyone to hear, Lucian looked to each of us once, seeing nothing that he could use against us, not even from me, so he slowly walked passed his brother and passed Alex and myself, deciding a fight was just not worth it, knowing he was outnumbered.

Suddenly, he bent down, punching Alex and grabbing me, pulling me to my feet as I screamed out. Ragnar, suddenly scared for my safety tried to help but Lucian quickly produced a knife and held it to my neck. Fear seemed to use my very blood to spread fear through my body. I had no idea what was going to happen next but I only looked to Ragnar with tear-filled eyes.

"You think this is a game? That I will just walk away? No, Ragnar. I spared you when I could have killed you with the rest of your pathetic family. With your horrid wife."

"And you want me to be grateful? Lucas, I wish you had killed me that night. I never wanted the life you gave me and you want me to be grateful for it? You're crazier than I ever thought possible. Now let her go and you'll get to walk away." Ragnar tried to take a step closer but Lucian quickly took a step back and I felt the cold metal on my burning skin.

I just wanted Jax. That was the cause of all of this. We are all in very real danger because I had to go look for my son. Maybe Lucian was right, maybe I should just go home and give up on ever seeing him ever again. I never wanted this to happen to any one of us. Not to Ragnar, not to Richard, and definitely not to Alex who had lost so much already.

"Just let her go, Lucian. That is all we're asking of you. Please, she's my wife." I was sobbing now, I could no longer see my husband's face but I could hear the fear in his voice. He's lost enough wives to this world, he didn't need to lose me too. I just prayed that Lucian could see that as well and would let me go, unharmed.

"Please." I begged, wondering if he even heard me. Finally, I felt the knife lower and I took a deep breath in before lowering his arms. I slowly walked forward into Ragnar's outstretched arms but before he could get a hold of me, Lucian suddenly pulled me back, changing his mind on releasing me.

I felt the knife once more as I yelled out in fear. Ragnar again tried pleading but we both knew it meant nothing to Lucian. I realized now that this whole thing was a set up. Ross wanted me gone and the only way to do that was to get me to believe that Lucian had changed, to believe that he actually cared for me and our son. He never did and he never will.

That was when I realized I had to do something. I needed to protect everyone because I'm the reason we're in the mess to begin with. I knew he'd never expect it from me when it worked and I got the knife from him and turned it on him, stabbing him, he was shocked, as were the others. I had never harmed a thing in my life and here I am, still holding the knife that was still inside my child's father.

I couldn't believe that it even happened. I was still in shock as Alex took me by shoulders and helped me to the ground. I just looked on as Ragnar and Richard checked on Lucian. I watched as his body struggled to breathe, to get oxygen to his lungs, the blood to his heart, anything his body needed to live, he was fought uselessly to get it.

Finally, Ragnar just looked up at me with wide eyes and then to Alex.

"He's dead. Lucian's gone."

I had killed him. He was finally gone.