Primal Impulse (COMPLETED!)

25. Heir

    Stacy was gone. I woke up empty handed and could smell the water in the air. She was getting ballsy, showering in the morning and she's lucky I stayed asleep this time after what happened last night.

    I don't know why I did what I did with her. Stollen her first kiss, made her think that she was something more to me. She was just a toy I liked to play with. Something I liked to mildly torture that had to keep coming back to me. I should be focused on finding a vampire girl to bond with. A two way bond is what Father had said did the trick for him, but I might be able to get away with a one way, since my thirst isn't daily. I can already feel it returning though, and I just drank two days ago. I did the math, and this seemed right. I had to drink every other day.

    I got dressed for my meeting with Kohle. We had a walk through on the new lounge today. The frame was built and the rooms were coming together. He wanted me to get a feel of it before we started making decisions on the designers different schemes. I made sure to drink a big glass of blood before I left.

    I met up with him, and we looked like the typical business men. Black tailored suits and a bright yellow hard hat. We shook hands and had the architect walk us through the rooms. Everything was good, I just had them make an adjustment or two to include a proper room for the human girls that would be performing. He said it was no big deal and made a few notes on what I thought they would need.

    We then met up with the designer Kohle had hired and she went over a few schemes with us. He also decided that Lounge Bare put a frightening image out there and we changed the name to Bare lounge. He picked out black to go with the blue under-glow, while the designer wanted more browns and neutrals. I had to agree with the designer. My club had black and blue as a color theme and I wanted this to stand out a little.

    "Kohle, we don't want to copy cat my club. I want this to be a joint adventure, something fresh and new. Besides, this a lounge, where people go to relax and calm down. Neutrals are very calming, just take a look at you."

    "I don't think I like what you are saying Stoic."

    "Just that I've never seen you mad. Or show any emotion but calm. No wonder why Ruth didn't like you. I bet she couldn't get a rise out of you ever."

    "Veronica didn't like to mix business with pleasure." I could see a ghost of a smile on his lips.

    This guy had fucked Ruth. That was the first thing I got out of his sentence and the seemingly imaginary expression on his lips.

    "So she got a rise out of you all the time then. I didn't take you for the kinky kind Kohle."

    "We can go with the dark browns and the blue. Maybe some raw wood as well."

    Kohle pointed to one of the schemes I had selected. I nodded to the designer, and Kohle dismissed her. He waited for a few minutes for her to be out of earshot, not worried about the other guests who were eating at the restaurant.

    "I have known Veronica for many years. She was an old friend. I dearly miss her." Kohle said with a straight face. His eyes flashing from his glass to me. "As I am sure you do. She was your maker after all. Ruth was always worried about her prodigy. She killed her maker, and her maker did the same. Sometimes it is all in the blood."

    "I agree thoroughly. They have the new laws in place for a reason, although bastards like me slip through the cracks. How much does it cost to have a heir these days? I heard it was expensive." I had done a little research with my Grandpap, now that we were on the same level and we had discovered why Kohle needed more money. He had a few empires of his own, but not quite enough to purchase the papers he needed to be granted a heir. A vampire would have to be damn near a king to get such a blessing. I guess I am my own little prince.

    "I heard the same thing too. I was curious about the whole ordeal, when I lost Veronica. Did you know she and I are cousins of sorts. Her maker and mine were siblings, before they were turned. Family is so hard to come by, and you can't have any new members, ever."

    Now I saw what he wanted. He was hoping to either snag me as a kindred spirit in his kink parade, or make enough money off me to replace Ruth. Because I took a part of his family, he wanted me to help replace it. Ruth was a sick individual, there was no way I could join him in it.

    "Maybe one day you will have enough to buy what you need."

    "Perhaps."

I hate boring chapters.
I miss Kyle.
Pic of my second choice for this book cover at the top//side.