Chapter 25

Vladimir's Pov.

I didn't know what to feel at the sight of him, Rage, relief, excitement, or irritation.

I didn't expect him to be here as well but the real question was why the fuck was he burning my Clan and acting like a cold beast from hell.

"Draven!" I rushed towards him with force and knocked him so hard with the back of the sword I was holding and he smiled darkly.

"I've missed you Vladimir, it took you so long to fucking arrive!" He growled in anger and lunged towards me at once, the impact of his punch had me staggering but I didn't let him enjoy the show as I sunk my sharp claws in his neck and he groaned in pain, grabbing my cotton jacket to set it ablaze.

I cursed and threw the jacket off my body, leaving me with my shirt and pants. He looked terrified in rage while the state of my Clan made me mad. We clashed against each other, I slashed his face with my claws and he was good at sending me blows to my nose, kicking my legs so hard to make the sword fall. Draven gave me no chance to recover because the minute he picked up the sword and slashed my skin repeatedly to make me wince.

I caught a nearby tree that wasn't too far from where we stood and, pushed him with my super speed powers to slam his head hard on the tree and he cursed.

"Fuck! I'll fucking kill you?" He yelled but I whooshed away from him backwards.

"Why the fuck are you destroying my Clan!" I raised my voice at him, trying to buy time to heal but Draven knew that and came after me. His eyes burned gold as he glared at me, his long hair now flowing effortlessly across his shoulders and at every movement he took, while he oozes out smoke.

"I should be asking you, silly impatient dog!"

" I didn't do anything, you have no right! Where's my mate!" I asked him curiously, I was mad as hell about him but the fact that he could only mean that Evelyn was closed and I had been very stupid in rushing into decisions.

"You didn't do anything?" He scoffed and twirled a ball of fire with his fingers, ready to slam it into my face. "You took poison to my Kingdom to kill my people and you dare lie to me? Just because you thought I wasn't going to bring Evelyn?" He yelled and threw the ball of fire at me but I dodged and it met with the tree instead.

"I was going to do that you punk because I didn't trust you a bit. But luckily, you're smarter than I had estimated you to be and your Kingdom is safe."

Draven stared hard at me as if I was lying or bluffing to get away from him until he saw my serious eyes and scoffed.

"In other words, you would have still destroyed my Kingdom if you had access right? You're so fucking stupid! And I wished I had wiped out your entire Clan before you came back! Just because you happen to be a stupid selfish idiot, doesn't mean others can be the same!" He spat out and quenched the fire and a sigh of relief escaped my lips. Draven was anything but scary with his fire even without revealing his full dragon.

"I'm not stupid, I just wasn't patient because death was knocking on my door and you spent two freaking days!" I yelled and sat on the field, staring at the fire going up and up in flames reminding me of how stupid I am.

"A lot happened, do you think I love staying in the human realms where I don't get to use my power? Evelyn was bullied in the city and sexually molested by someone who claims to be her boss!"

Angry blood rushed hotly down my body and I glared... "Tell me you burned him!"

He sat down on the floor and shrugged.

"My mate was too soft to witness the scene, I made him sign the company to her but burn him up at a hotel with other police officials when they came to fetch me out"

I nodded in satisfaction and suddenly felt weak, I was never going to apologize to Draven even if I wanted to because of the mess he made and I knew my people would go into a hot riot the next day when all of this had died down.

"Clean the mess, you're lucky I didn't break the pillars of the main mansion and burn it up before you arrived." He smirked and stood up, making me scoop some sand into his eyes and stood up too.

"You're always impatient!" I spat out and he grinned. "At least we share something in common, you should be glad."

"What did you use in protecting your Kingdom, my men were thrown like rag dolls to the sky and it's a slap to my face and personality as a King," I asked him shamelessly, definitely expecting his cocky talks but hoping that he answers me.

"I met with your Priestess?" He replied and shocked me at the same time.

"What?"

"Hmm.. I heard she has special powers and before we agreed to have our mates at a time, I needed something to keep you and Lucian out of my pack. She asked for my dragon oil in exchange and I gave it to her!"

I hissed at the bitter source of his powers, how could the blood Vane Queen help this punk?

"But guess what?" He chuckled darkly and stared at Luke who was coming in our direction I'm worried.

"What?"

"I gave her a Wolf's oil instead."

"You're always a crazy psychopath!"

"I don't trust you, Vladimir, how on earth would I trust your Priestess who wants something close to my dragon? Besides, I was only messing around and didn't expect whatever she gave me to work out, I think she's falling for me."

I groaned and shook my head and his awarded ego attitude when Luke bowed to examine me.

"Are you okay King Vladimir, we were able to put the fire off but the people are extremely mad and crying at the loss of their homes and the distraction of the blood moon ritual." He reported to me and I nodded.

"I'm fine, I just need my..." I dropped down to the floor instantly as if my legs were paralyzed with hot scorching fire that circulated my entire body and dark ink began to appear from my skin.

The symbol of my blood moon powers! It wasn't supposed to appear! Luke knew about that and I gasped in hot pain.

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"What's the time?" I asked no one in particular but Draven unapologetically replied blankly.

"It's five minutes to midnight, I think this is where you die right? The blood moon is directly above you Vladimir!" He commented and my heart squeezed as if It was being fried on fire.

"Where's my mate Draven!" I groaned in pain and he smirked.

"Give me one reason why I should tell you."