Chapter 21. Innocent

Nero

The problem started to pile up just as I was about to go back to my apartment and spent the rest of the evening with Tessa.

Ammar was supposed to be on it, but then he lost track of Rigel. And then a small group of hunters managed to behead two of our younglings just because they party too hard and killed all the people in the party bus. Their sire called it a misunderstanding, a containable mistake he said. A bus of people, all dead. It was easy enough to say that the bus was en route to crashville, a perfect escape to get the vampire younglings out of the mess. Until the hunters were on to them.

God, I'm too old for this mess.

It took me two more hours to watch as Ammar took charge of the situation and calmed the younglings' sire and hold him off. It happened under my territory and the young sire was living in the area, a couple of blocks from