Challenging a Cold Heart

Chapter 24: Values versus Love

Vincent's POV

I watched the tattoo artist finishing the reminder of the tattoos that he had started on my neck and hands. They weren't permanent of course unlike the ones on Azul. I looked at myself in the mirror. I was wearing a leather jacket over a white t-shirt and leather black pants. It felt weird as I looked at myself with the black wig they had placed on my head. My eyes still stung from putting in contact lenses. I don't know how people seemed to make it look like a breeze. Tears were still seeping from my eyes and they looked red now. I even ruined the makeup. Yeah. Azul wore eye liners and had a ring in his nose and several piercings on his ears. They've put the same on me and I kept controlling the urge to scratch them. I don't know how he lives will all the piercings and chains and what not! He looked like some bad boy punk.

"Is it done now?" I heard Azul's voice.

"Almost." The makeup artist said.

I glanced at a peeved looking Azul in the mirror.

"Is everything ready from your side?" Jax asked him.

"Yeah and no thanks to Lucas's bloody phantoms." He said sourly.

"Hey, they follow Lucas. Don't take it too hard. We can use our men for this." Jax said with a shrug.

"Actually I would beg to differ. Lucas's phantoms contain some of our best trained people. I bet Alexander will have something up his sleeve. If we want to get out of it without injury, we need trained people." Azul said.

"We also have trained people Azul." Zevlon said as he came into the room.

"Yeah. Just not as trained as Lucas's phantoms." Azul said.

"Why are you in such a pissy mood?" Jax asked.

"Do you even have to ask? My sister is probably suffering this very minute while we are joking around. She had been serving those bloody phantoms since she was thirteen. How could they do this to her? Not a single person wants to help." Azul said angrily.

"Well, Hugo, Jared and Kronos were always extremely loyal dogs. Roma wouldn't go against Kronos and Mairi just doesn't care about other women. Your sister was originally competition to her since she was offered to Blood Phoenix as a gift to Lucas." Jax said.

"Don't remind me of what my bloody father did. It boils my blood." Azul sneered.

"Heh..I am always amused at how over protective you are over your sisters even though some of them are prized assassins." Jax said with a laugh.

"Asshole don't talk when you don't have sisters. It just makes you sound pathetically jealous." Azul said. Jax flipped him off.

"Will your sisters help us?" Zevlon asked him. Azul looked more pissed if it was possible.

"Those women don't understand family responsibilities. They are happier whipping away Belle's slaves." Azul said. I glanced at them, secretly intrigued by their conversation.

Jax laughed at that. "At least Belle treats them as part of her alpha girl club instead of a toy like Zev's sister." He said.

"Well, no offense but my sisters could knock any man off their feet in seconds. They are nothing like Zev's sister. Belle detests simpering women." Azul said and glanced at Zevlon.

"Why are you looking at me? She was a betrayer. I don't care to defend her." Zevlon said.

"I don't get why you didn't come after Lucas for her death. I would have." Azul said.

"She ratted us to Alexander. Lucas was not responsible for what happened to her." Zevlon said.

"Well then. At least you get to take revenge on the man who killed your sister and niece tonight." Azul said. That made me whip my head towards them.