Chapter 30

Klaus:

“You will protect my mate with your lives, do you understand?” I ordered looking at my guards who were in the throne room “while I’m inside this throne room until Verone leaves, Kiara is not to leave the chamber”

“Yes sire,” the guards said at once, I nodded dismissing all of them before taking a deep breath trying to control myself. Kiara was not aware of Verone coming to the castle. I couldn’t see him out of the castle, it would be risking many people’s lives, however, I couldn’t risk the fact of him and Kiara being in the same room. If I knew Verone, then I knew that he would do his best to annoy me using my mate. He would sense and see my annoyance of him being here, and he would be using it to his advantage.

But, I sadly needed to negotiate with him, especially after forcing his heart to grow back. He could come back for Kiara, he could come back to annoying the people, to trying and killing the people, I couldn’t risk something like that. I didn’t even want to think of it.

I was too busy in my thoughts that I jumped when the door was knocked. I looked at the door for a second before calling ‘come in’, the door was opened revealing Ian who bowed when he saw me sitting on the throne, he may have been my younger brother, but I was still king over everything. And when I was in the position where guards and servants were around, I was to be respected as so.

“King Niklaus, King Verone has arrived,” Ian said and I nodded, already catching the scent of the bastard, he was standing in front of the door. Probably looking at the paintings which were in the hall, it was a habit that he always had, and though I couldn’t understand the reason for it, I knew that it was a habit he’s had since we were kids.

“Let him come in, and I don’t want anyone disturbing us as we speak,” I said looking at Ian who frowned in confusion, I nodded at him assuring him. He nodded and bowed before walking out of the throne room, I could hear his heart racing as he worried about what was to happen. But if I was going to have a conversation with Verone, it was going to be in private. He and I had our secrets, we had our strengths and weaknesses, we knew of one another’s secrets as no one else could.

Of course, we would, we were born of the same stomach.

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“Now, I want to understand why you have come Verone?” I asked looking at the man who was once considered my brother. My twin brother to be exact.

“Is that how you speak to your brother Niklaus? It is bad enough that you hide the fact as if it were some sort of dishonor…”

“It is a dishonor for me to be a sibling of a monster who wishes nothing but the death of everyone in front of him,” I said stopping Verone from speaking, he and I were sitting on the white leather couches which Verone had made appearances in the middle of the throne room, keeping a small distance between us in the middle seat, his stance calm as I had my eyebrow raised at him, both of us spoke the same language, I hated to admit it, but both Verone and I spoke the same language.

“You have forgotten that you and I were on the same path once,” Verone said calmly, his eyebrow raised at me, he wasn’t one to usually raise an eyebrow, but when he did, he was stating a fact that he and I knew, or something that I needed to know and was unaware of.

“And that has ended a long time ago”

Flashback:

“Verone, stop! You are killing innocent people” I said looking at my brother who has been on a kill streak for days, it scared me, he scared me.

“They refuse to listen to the simple orders we give, they will be suffering the consequence of their actions,” Verone said raising a man and his family in the air, snapping their necks using his magic before dropping them to the ground. A girl, around the age of thirteen, caught sight of the terrorizing vision in front of her and screamed covering her mouth. The word mum left her mouth and my eyes widened when I realized that the people who were killed were her family.

Verone vampire sped in the girl’s direction, but me being in front of him stopped him, his eyes widened and his fangs were suddenly out as he threatened me, but his threat meant nothing to me right now, he was hurting innocent people. He was about to kill an innocent girl “Verone, stop it, now!”

“Move aside Niklaus” Verone growled before I pushed him back with a force that had him sent back against the wall, his body hit the wall and slid down before the vampire sped toward me again. I glared at him and pushed him back again.

“Run child, and don’t look back, I’ll keep you safe,” I said looking at the girl just as Verone rose to his feet again, my eyes glowed yellow as my wolf made himself known, both Verone and I running in each other’s direction. It was then that I realized that he and I could never share the same path, we were forced to choose sides, and I would NEVER choose a dark one.

End of Flashback.

“You chose a child’s side over your brother’s Niklaus…”

“I choose good, instead of bad Verone…”

“Oh? So, I’m bad, and you’re the saint, aren’t you Niklaus?” Verone asked angrily, I growled at him but said nothing to respond to him, he was crossing his limits by raising his tone, and this was my territory, he was forced to respect it. Whether or not he liked it, the king was to respect me, he was forced to do so “why have you called me here Niklaus?”

“Why have you come out of your hiding spot? You have been hiding for years, protecting yourself from death? Why are you here now?” I asked calmly, Verone raised an eyebrow at me and smirked, his smirk was one that I wanted to punch out of his face. But I sadly knew that I still needed to be civilized.

“If you are worrying that I’m here after your mate, then I am not. But I have come to claim what is mine” Verone said calmly, his expression changing from a smirk to a serious one, his once blue eyes had shifted to red.

“Which is?” I asked raising an eyebrow, my blue eyes now on his redone.

“Your throne”