Chapter 18: I Think You Broke My Nose!

  Crystal held her new baby boy against her chest humming a lullaby her mother used to sing to her. It’s been twenty-four hours since she gave birth, Madam Chan said Crystal did an amazing job giving the circumstance. Madam Chan made up one of here stock rooms with a rocking chair, an inflatable mattress, pillows, and blankets and an old bassinet she had got when she was pregnant but unfortunately miscarried, she never had the heart to get rid of it. It wasn’t safe for them to go to their home or to Roberto’s condo.

  “How’s the little one doing?” Elle said as she brought in an arm full of baby gifts.

  “Oh my gosh you guys are going to spoil him.” As she pointed to a stock pile of gifts ranging from diapers to baby toys.

  “We take care of our own.”

  “Thank you. And to answer your question he is doing good. Madam Chan is an incredible midwife, and she said he is doing well and is healthy, but we do want to go get him seen by a doctor here soon though. Roberto wants to wait though and make sure we aren’t being followed once we leave here. Besides we have nowhere to go at the moment. Madam Chan said we can stay here as long as we needed, but no matter how nice we make it this is still a stock room, I can’t keep my baby here for to much longer.”

  “That’s totally understandable, we are working on finding you guys a safe place to go.”

  “Thank you. Would you like to hold him?” Elle eyes lit up at the offer.

  “Of course, let me go wash my hands.” Elle came back with clean hands and a big smile. Crystal got up from the chair to let Elle sit down, she handed her the baby.

  “What is his name?” She said cradle him against her chest and slowly rocking in the chair.

  “Roberto Jr.” Crystal laid down on the mattress as Elle rocked little Roberto in her arms. Elle went to ask Crystal where Roberto Sr. was but Crystal had fallen asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. So Elle decided to let her sleep and she would just sit with the baby. She didn’t mind anyways she loved kids.

  Roberto, Daniel, Sean and Lamar sat in Lamar’s workshop trying to figure out there next move.

  “I say we still stick with the original plan and go after the Eastside, I mean we have the werewolves on our side” Lamar said.

  “My dad knows about the plan so that might not work, he is going to be ready for us.”

  “That’s true.” Agreed Daniel.

  “What do we do then, there is no way they can go home, and there is no way they can raise a baby here.” Sean said.

  “Is there any way that your father wouldn’t come after you?”

  "If we kill him." Roberto said coldly.

  "Are you okay with that?" Lamar asked.

  "To protect my family, I'm going to have to be."

  Roberto excused himself so he could go see Crystal and the baby. He felt bad for putting her in this situation, but they were here and he had to make the best of it for her. He'll check back in with the others later to see if they had a plan.

  "I got to talk to you guys about something," Lamar went to his laptop to video call Mycal,

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  "What's up." He said answering.

  "Are you alone?" Lamar asked.

  "I'm fine, the drive was good as well, thanks for asking." He said sarcastically.

  "Sorry but I have to tell you guys something," Lamar set up the laptop so Mycal could see the whole room and they could see him, Daniel and Sean were sitting on the couch while Lamar stood there.

  "What's up?" Sean asked.

  "You know how I left with Elle to see her friend, well her friend was Councilman Thomas. And they had a couple of interesting things to tell me.”

  “Like what?” Daniel asked.

  “Like I’m only part dusker.”

  “Wait, how can that even be,” Sean asked.

  “Apparently my mother is a dusker, but get this my father is an archangel.” The room was silent until Mycal burst out in laughter, the others followed.

  “I mean it makes since.” Sean said wiping a tear from his eye.

  “How so?” Daniel asked.

  “Just think about it, Lamar is crazy strong even for a fifth class, there no way he is just a normal dusker, and angels, let alone an archangel possess incredible power.”

  “So what does this all mean?” Mycal asked.

  “Your guess is as good as mine.” Lamar replied.

  “One thing for sure is that we need to keep this to ourselves.” Daniel suggested and they all agreed.

  “What was the other thing interesting thing you had to tell us?” Asked Mycal.

  “Uh, well they brought up you and the fact that I was able to bring you back, they’re worried that you might not be you, that you might not have your soul.”

  “Why would they think I don’t have a soul.”

  “They questioned if I used blood magic to bring you back and that if I did it could be bad, Thomas told me about some mage in the 1800s that used blood magic to bring his wife back and it didn’t end so well.”

  “Did you use blood magic; we all know you have before and If you did this time, you can tell us.” Sean stood up and walked over to Lamar.

  “Like I told them, no I didn’t use blood magic. You guys no very well what that had done to me in the past, I almost killed Chris. I would never do something that stupid and reckless again.”

  “To be fair he did cheat on you, like a lot.” Daniel said.

  “Not the point.” Lamar snapped back. Daniel threw his hands up in the air as if he was surrendering.

  “So if you didn’t use blood magic, then how did you bring me back?”

  “Hell if I know.”

  “Not Hell, but maybe Heaven, we know now that you are part angel, what if angels have the ability to place a soul back in its body. We already know you are a crazy strong healer because of your mom, so healing that wound would have been an easy task for someone with your power.” Sean replied.

  “It’s a good theory, but how do we test it?” Daniel asked.

  “We don’t.” Mycal answered.

  “We might have to sooner or later, that’s the other thing I needed to tell you guys about. Thomas said what I did disrupted Mycal’s natural order, and if the council finds out they will want the balance returned.”

  “Meaning?”

  “Meaning I would have to kill you. Which I told them wasn’t happening.”

  “Are we going to have to fight the council?” Daniel questioned.

  “We just might if they find out about Mycal.” Sean stated.

  “I can’t let you guys do that, not to save me again. I obviously don’t want to die, but I’m not going to put you guys in harms way either the council is full of the strongest and I don’t think we are strong enough to them all.”

  “So you would want me to kill you?”

  “If it comes down to it, yes.”

  “How can you be okay with that!” A voice from behind Mycal said, it was his wife he was practically in tears, she ran out the room slamming the door. Mycal closed the laptop and went running after her.

  “Gemma wait.” Mycal called after his wife. He reached out his arm to grab her shoulder from behind, she threw a back kick connecting with his chest, which made him drop to his knees, she then turned around and grabbed his head with both of her hands and kneed him in the nose causing blood to spray out.

  “What the fuck is your problem?” Mycal said holding his nose trying to stop the bleeding.

  “My problem is that my husband is so willing to just give up his life. Do you even care about what that would do to me, did you think about that for one moment?”

  “Of course I did,” Mycal got off the ground, he took his bloody shirt off and held it against his nose. “I’m trying to protect you, if the council comes after us they are going to kill us all.”

  “I’m a dusker too.” She shouted.

  “What does that have to do with anything?”

  “I don’t need you to protect me.”

  “Clearly.” He said pointing to his nose and laughing.

  “Oh so this is just one big joke to you.”

  “No but I don’t see the point of getting this upset, fine I won’t just roll over, but when the council kills us both you can’t blame me.” Gemma decided to go back inside, she body checked him as she walked pass.

  “I think you broke my nose!” Mycal yelled before she could shut the door.

  “GOOD!”