There’s nothing stopping our master from taking over the council now – so much influence and power.
He doesn’t look like much, but hey, Kirill can always keep the lights off and his eyes closed. Imagine how much power a god’s blood would give to our master. Ooh, I see great things for our coven.
If the coven members weren’t bad enough, the slimeball Yakov made Ra’s skin crawl just being near him. It’d always fascinated Ra, how all beings could be born with a pure soul, and yet some of them turned out to be lower than slugs in terms of their behavior and the way they treated others. Yakov was worse than a slug. He gave slugs a bad name.
“Well, lookie here.” Ra looked over to where Zeus was busy sitting in front of a computer and tapping on a keyboard that was far larger than the one Ra tried using on his phone. “Yakov, you really have been taking advantage of your master’s absence, haven’t you?”
“I adore our master and am supremely loyal to him. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Our master will be furious when he knows someone’s been messing with his computer. No one is allowed to touch it. No one.” Yakov was still bound with the lasso Zeus had fashioned for him. It’s a shame it didn’t come with a gag.
“What did you find?” Ra turned back to the window he was staring out of, suppressing his urge to wipe Yakov’s face off. I have every right. That man chained my mate to the walls of his own coven for a week!
“In the week Kirill was imprisoned, someone, namely Yakov, has been busy sending out missives to other covens, seeking investment in what he’s calling a “pleasure palace” project.” Ra heard Zeus tap a few more keys. “It would seem our little rodent wasn’t content with trying to keep Kirill from his beloveds, he also wanted to leverage Kirill’s name to get money from other coven masters for a building development he describes as ‘a luxurious setting where vampires can be true to their nature’.”
“How do you mean, leveraging Kirill’s name?” Ra swirled, his eyes flashing.
“Exactly that.” Zeus tapped the screen. “Yakov has been writing to coven masters, as Kirill’s representative, claiming that his master felt shackled by the constraints of modern society, and wanted a return to the old ways.”
“Where blood was taken from the source rather from bags.” Ra clenched his fists. “Zeus…”
Ra didn’t get a chance to say anything else because there was a tap at the door, and one of the Anubis guards stepped in. Tapping his chest and bowing low to Ra, the guard straightened. “My Lord, there is something on the grounds we feel you must see immediately.”
Closing his eyes for one moment, Ra allowed himself a split second of Please, no, not what I think this is before snapping his eyes open again. “Get one of your brethren to take him.” Ra pointed his finger at Yakov who was now doing an impression of a grounded fish. “He is to be relocated to my realm and secured with Osiris. Inform the Lord of the Dead this person is not to be released for any reason without my command. And take the vampire he was being intimate with when we arrived too.”
“My Lord.” The guard bowed, and then pushed the door open, revealing two other guards who swiftly and silently did as they were ordered.
Yakov wasn’t going quietly. “You can’t do this,” he screamed as he struggled with the guards who didn’t seem concerned by his efforts. “You have no idea what shit you’re bringing down on your heads. I have friends far more powerful than you – friends who will take two washed up gods and render them powerless. Kirill! Kirill! Save m…” His last word was cut off and Ra sighed as Yakov left the building.
He looked up to see Zeus watching him, a worried look in his stormy eyes. “You sure you know what you’re doing, Ra? That’s awfully close to interference, taking mortals to your realm.”
“I haven’t killed them, and I don’t intend to, at least not yet. This is a matter for my beloved, not me. Are you coming to see what was found on the grounds?”
Zeus stood up, buttoning his jacket. “I’ll come but we already know what