All Chapters of ICE PRINCES OF HELL: Veins Of The Omega: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

EZRA'S POVI knocked three times and stood outside, waiting for the house owner to open the door. After wandering for what seemed to have been hours, I just had no choice but to come over here. I heard him shuffling from inside as if he was colliding with the furniture. Then Cole's voice, muffled and indistinct, saying something that wasn't directed at the door so much as at the general situation of having to be upright. The door opened. Cole was still wearing yesterday's shirt, one sock and the expression of a man who had made several decisions the night before that his morning self was still auditing. His hair was doing something architectural. He was holding a glass of water with both hands like it was keeping him anchored to the earth. If I were to be in a better mood, I would have found this pretty funny. "Ezra." He called out and burped. "You're here. That's..." he blinked, trying to clear his eyes. "That's good. That's a good thing? Are you okay? I searched thoroughly f

EZRA'S POVThe bonding mark on the woman's neck was three lines. That was it. Three curved lines, fine as thread, sitting just below her ear in a pattern that looked almost like it could be a scar if you weren't looking for it. She tilted her head to give Cole a better angle and he leaned in with the focused interest of someone genuinely trying to be helpful. "It appeared the morning after." She said, She was maybe twenty-five. She appeared very relaxed in a way that showed she had answers to the questions they'd been asking. "I woke up and there it was." I looked at the three lines. I thought about the gold circle on my chest with its five-pointed star and its claw mark and said nothing. There was a stark difference between the two. I didn't show her because I wasn't sure if anyone else other than those responsible for its appearance and also Cole was to know and see it. "How does the bonding actually happen?" Cole asked, glancing at my side. She looked between us. "You kn

AUTHOR'S POVEzra knocked on the door multiple times that Cole had to shout at him from within before opening the door. "What the fuck is wrong? Do you want to break down the door?" Cole eyed his friend's apprehensive state. "Are you alright? You look like you've just seen a ghost. You're pale." He opened the door wider for him. "I am fine." Ezra looked around, behind him too and quickly entered. "Uhm...no, you're not." "Just close the door." Cole checked outside again and then shut the door. "What happened? What did you see? Was the date terrible?" "I had to act like that because I had a feeling that someone was following me." Ezra sat on the couch and pulled his jacket off. Cole's eyes twitched. "You've got a stalker?" "I don't know. It's just a feeling that didn't seem to decrease so I hurried over." Ezra tried to wave it off, not wanting to escalate the issue unnecessarily because what if he was just overthinking it? "Alright." Cole plumped d

EZRA'S POVRiven crossed the room in the time it took me to blink and his hand closed around the vampire at my neck. He pulled him backward with a force that sent them both into the opposite wall. The impact cracked the plaster. The vampire hit the ground and Riven was already on top of him, methodical and completely without hesitation. He began to land punches across this vampire's face while yelling, "How dare you touch him with your filthy hands?" A punch. "Fuck you!" Another punch. I shut my eyes and turned my face away from the brutal confrontation happening right in front of my eyes. As for the others, they scattered except that scatter wasn't quite the right word because they didn't have anywhere to go. Dorian had the exit, Lucien and Caius were already moving through the room and the five vampires who had seemed so certain of themselves thirty minutes ago were desperate and capable were not the same thing. It dawned on me that they had no form.They fought like people who

EZRA'S POVI remained right there on the floor. My knees had totally given out and I couldn't feel my whole existence for a while. Nobody moved for a long moment at all. Cole had gotten beside me with his hand on my back. The vampire was still against the wall with a dagger through his chest. The door flung open and the brothers made their way in. When I yelled earlier, they instantly went out to search for clues or whoever could have done this. "We didn't see anyone. They didn't even leave their scent." Lucien announced. I didn't say anything. I just sat there, staring at the body in a daze. There was a knock seven minutes later on the door and we all turned our attention to it, tensed. Everyone went still. Dorian calmly went to the door before anyone else, hesitated for a few seconds before he pulled it open, just enough to fill the frame with his body which entirely blocked whatever was behind him from whoever was in front of him. An older woman who turned out to be my neig