Acting childish

CAIN’S POV

I couldn’t believe that my father was trying to rob me of my chances with Amber, sending her to a wolf territory all on her own was basically handing her over to the wolves for them to devour her and have their way with her. I had told my father of my interest in Amber and he seemed to agree that we would make a good match but now I couldn’t understand the direction in which he was taking things, I just couldn’t understand his reasoning in the decision he had made. He had been bothering me about settling down and having kids and now that I was trying to do that he had taken it upon his power to sabotage that for me. I was even beginning to think that maybe he wanted Amber for himself especially considering the attention he had been giving her ever since she got here.

“Father, I need to speak to you..” I said as I stormed into his office he lifted his eyes to look at me and he had an angry expression on his face. He was in a meeting with one of the elders and I didn’t care I needed him to tell me what the fuck he was playing at.

“Cain, don’t behave like a spoiled brat,” he said calmly even though his calm voice was in contradiction with the anger and the storm brewing in his eyes“take a seat and wait until I am done with elder Sebastian” he added and I threw myself on the couch that was set on the side. I hated waiting especially if I felt that what I needed was more important, I didn’t even like elder Sebastian but to fair, I hated most of the elders.

He and elder Sebastian were going through everything that Amber was to do when she got to the wolf lands, they literally had her whole trip planned for her and I wondered if this was because they didn’t trust her to have a plan for herself. Basically, they were planning how to hand her over to the wolves like a sheep for the slaughter. I didn’t understand why they thought that they were in a perfect position to plan this trip for her when they didn’t even know what she was going to be faced with. How did this even make sense to the? I was even sure that none of them even knew the layout of the wolf kingdom except for what they had seen on maps that were given to them by spies, so what made them think they were in the right position to plan this and ensure that Amber wouldnt be killed in the process?

The more I thought about this the angrier I got and the more frustrated I got, I felt really let down by my father. I felt betrayed by my father because I thought he was on my side, I thought he wanted the best for me as he had always professed he did but now I was realizing that those were just empty words. He was probably just saying that to get me off his back so that I would stop bothering him. If he really cared about me he wouldn’t be sending Amber away knowing that she was the love of my life and there was nothing I wanted more than to be with her.

His meeting with elder Sebastian went on for what felt like an eternity before the old vampire walked out of the office but not before throwing me a disapproving look, as if I sought any approval from him. He knew I didn’t like him so why would he think I needed approval from him.

“Father, how could you do this to me? How could you..” he cut me off before I could even start complaining to him

“SILENCE!” he shouted and his voice echoed through the room but I was sure that those who were close to his office could hear him just as well as I could. my father was a very scary man and in this entire coven, I was the only one who could stand up to him, and that had a lot to do with the fact that I was his son and he couldn't really do anything to hurt me.

“Let this be the last time you will embarrass me in front of the other elders” he ordered and I nodded as I dropped my head not only in shame but also in fear.

”Now what is it you wanted to discuss with me and don’t go complaining like you just did, don’t complain like a little boy,” he said and I sighed trying to collect myself and calm myself down

”I apologize, father for badging into your office like this but I need to understand why,” I asked

”Why what?” he asked with such sharpness I almost forgot that I was addressing my father, it was as if for a second he was about to jump over his desk and squeeze the life out of me or rip my head off.

“Why Amber?” I asked him “why did you choose her to go to the wolf territory?” I asked him and he laughed

”And here I thought you wanted to confront me on a matter that actually mattered” he mocked

“Amber matters to me father and I don’t want anything to happen to her which it inevitably will if you send her out there all on her own,” I said, why couldn't he just see things from my point of view

You are overreacting Cain, nothing will happen to her he tried assuring me but what did he know

“Father I am telling you as her trainer that she is not ready for that,” I said hoping that he would listen to me if I pleaded as her trainer.

“And I am telling you as an elder of this coven and her chosen guardian that nothing will happen to her, do you now trust me anymore?” he asked me and I sighed

“I trust you father but you need to remember that you are my father first, before you are an elder or her guardian you are my father first,” I said and he smirked

“Your point is?” he asked

“My point is that it's your job to look after my best interest,” I said and he laughed at me as if I had said something stupid

“My job is to look after the best interest of this coven and this is one of them,” he said and then he leaned forward on his desk and motioned for me to come closer and I did

“Why don’t you tell me what exactly is going on here?” he asked me

“Father, I love Amber,” I said and he smiled as if he already knew what I was telling him.

“I know that,” he said

“If you know that then why are you sending her out there?” I asked him

“Because it's for the best of the coven, do you not trust her? Do you think she is strong enough to handle the wolves?” he asked me

“It's not that I am afraid that she won't be able to handle them, it's just that I feel that because she is a very beautiful and strong woman someone might take her from me” I confided

“No one would dare do such a thing,” my father said confidently

“That is becasue they know who I am and who you are but out there, no one care about you or me. The wolves don’t give a shit about this coven and will take our women if they could. Amber is so much like a human it will be easy for them to fall for her” I said

”That is the more reason why it's important that she does this, she was chosen because I trust her and I know that if anyone can handle this it's her. She was chosen because she will easily blend into the wolf community without any trouble or suspicious, like you said she is human in so many ways so you need to just relax’ my father explained

“I understand all that but that doesn't stop me from worrying about her, it doesn't stop me from fearing the worst,” I said

”Did she send you here?” he asked me “I am asking becasue she was also hesitant when we told her that this mission was hers” he said

”She is very afraid but she didn’t send me here, I am here because I thought as my father you might reconsider sending the woman I love out there to be devoured by wolves,

“I understand that you love her, will you make you feel better if I told you that she will be given to you when she returns?” he asked

”If she returns,” I said how was he so sure that she would return when anything could happen to he out there. For all, we knew they were already expecting her and they would pounce on her the moment we let her leave our sight.

“She will return and you are obsessing over this as if this woman has already accepted you, has she accepted you?” he asked me

“Not yet but I know she will,” I said

”Then you are worried about the wrong thing because there is a good chance that she will still reject you despite the fact that you have gone so far to fight for her,” he said and his words cut me deep because they were true to a certain extent

”You just promised me that she would be mine if  and when she returned” I reminded him

“Yes but that only applied if you let send her out there, I mean it's not like I need our permission because the decision had already been finalized by all the elders,” he said

”If by elders you mean elder Emilia then this is a joke, she is probably counting on her dying out there and if she does make it back home Elder Emilia would probably try to kill her herself,” I said and my father laughed

”Just make peace with this, it's not changing and I promised you will reap the rewards in the end” he promised

“What rewards are those?” I asked him

“Well, we are the most powerful family in the entire coven with me as the chair of the council and your and the head trainer, the only thing that we needed was someone like amber to cement our position in the coven. Let her go and come back victorious then we will be the most feared family in this entire coven, the entire clan, and even the world at large. Just sit back and watch Amber as she brings home that victory’ he said confidently.

"I hear you and I hope that you are right, I love the idea of power but I wouldn't want to sacrifice Amber for that power however I know that you wouldn't make a decision about sending her out there if you didn't think she would make it," I said choosing to trust my father

There were only two good things that were going to come from my father’s plan, the first was the fact that Amber was going to be mine at last and the second was that I would be the most feared vampire in the entire clan. I still had reservations about my father’s plan but if power was guaranteed then I was willing to let her go despite the dangers that she could possibly come into where she was going the truth was that I knew that Amber was strong enough to handle anything that was thrown her way and the wolves probably wouldnt even see her coming.