The Vampire’s Servant novel Chapter 167

[Bellamy]

As I was dealing with my newest batch of paperwork to move more ex-packs into Lune Rouge, my phone started ringing. I picked it up off my desk and saw a familiar number. I hadn’t been expecting a call so soon.

“What’s up, Troy?” I asked.

“We just got out to the hunter issue in Hallowed Moon’s region. This is bigger than we thought. They look like they’re getting ready to attack a powerful enemy. We’ve been watching them for the past two days. There are over twenty different hunters we’ve seen in and out of the house.” He reported.

“Shit. Do you think they’re planning on attacking Hallowed Moon?”

“With how many weapons boxes we’ve seen go into the house, I would say they were planning to attack something bigger, like Lune Rouge.” Troy said.

Aurora and I went deadly calm. An attack on our pack wouldn’t end well for the hunters. I would ensure there were no survivors. I would kill anyone who tried to harm my family.

I quickly sent a link to the head of my rogue guards to have them increase patrols. They were a more secretive force. Much better for patrolling and making people think we only had the more visible pack guards.

“Do you think they found out about me and Lucien? That could make hunters focus on us as a target. Have you been able to suss anything out about their target or mission?” I asked.

“No. We’ll be watching them and trying to get closer. We’ve got Crazy Derrick with us. Some of the hunters go out to a bar. We’re thinking of sending him in.” Troy told me.

“Sending Derrick would be a good idea. They wouldn’t know he wasn’t human. Your mission is to find out their target and report back as soon as possible. I’m sending another team for backup. Any requests?”

“Send a group with females. The house across from them is for sale. Perry looks old enough to be my father. Get us a younger female and an older female and we can move in seeming like a family moving into the neighborhood. It puts us at a good advantage.” Troy suggested.

“Alright. Text me the information for the house and I’ll get it purchased. I’m renting you a moving truck. Go to a second hand store to start filling it. You’ll need moving boxes with everything needed for setting up house. Hunters are more observant than most humans. You’ll really need to sell it. Make sure you shave really well and go get a haircut.” I ordered.

“Yes, Queen Bellamy.” He said and hung up.

Sending Crazy Derrick in was a great idea. He would probably even be able to get into the hunters’ house. That would put us at a huge advantage.

Derrick loved his nickname. He even got it tattooed in silver on his chest. That’s how crazy Derrick was. He had silver studs pierced through his nipples, several tattoos using silver infused ink, and a couple more piercings that were rumored, but I had never seen.

On top of that, he did crazy stuff. Derrick told everyone his great grandmother had been a shaman with an animal affinity. He said he can understand animals.

I know it’s possible to be a hybrid of a wolf and a witch, but the affinities rarely went past the first generation unless more witch was mixed in. That was what made Derrick’s claims seem strange. And his wolf was just as weird.

He would chase squirrels. When asked about it, Derrick explained that the squirrels all talked shit about werewolves and he had to defend our honor. He ate any squirrel that he caught.

Most notably, though, was the time Derrick ended up in the clinic after eating a leaf of Wolf’s Bane. Someone had dared him to and he decided it would be funny. He almost died. He seemed to do that every couple of months.

Derrick was sure to impress the hunters. A lot of them would test with colloidal silver. A liquid that contained silver.

It wasn’t deadly, but it weakened our wolves and it burned like a bitch going down. Derrick would have drinking contests with his team. See, colloidal silver also made things have a stronger effect on wolves. He would drink alcohol with silver in it and it made him tipsy. He had built up a tolerance to silver laced alcohol.

If they put silver in his drink, Derrick would still be in his right mind instead of succumbing to the alcohol as quickly as other wolves might. That would be enough to convince most hunters that he was actually human instead of a wolf.

I pulled out my phone. It was nearly noon, so Victor would be asleep. I wanted to update him on everything as soon as possible. I set a notification on my phone to call Victor.

Trent was the next person who needed to know about the hunter threat. I dialed his number and waited for him to pick up.

“Queen Bellamy, to what do I owe the pleasure?” Trent asked.

“I’ve just received a call from my rogue team. They’ve seen something disturbing about the hunters in your area.” I said and told him everything my team had reported.

I gave him a rundown of the current plan. I wanted him to be prepared. More than twenty hunters usually meant it was a party planning to go after a pack.

“I’ll increase my patrols and have my warriors on standby. Gray’s stumbling into this hunters’ den may have saved our pack from an attack. Did he contact you about the further incident a few nights ago?” Trent questioned.

“Yes. It seemed like the girl was trying to figure things out for her apology, but I wouldn’t put anything past a hunter. No matter their age, hunters are dangerous. Derrick is our best hope for now. Send more guards to Victor’s home. The guards will have to figure out how to share space. I don’t want the kids unprotected.” I told him.

“You’re only a year or so older than them and you call them ‘the kids’.” He chuckled.

“Every one of those children has been protected far more than I ever was. I’ve been an adult longer than you have, Alpha Trent. They could be two years older than me and they’d still be children to me. I need to get a second team out to support my guys. Can you do anything about that house?” I asked.

“Yes. It’s owned by a company we work with. I’ll contact my friend there and see about selling it to you. We can probably get things settled in pretty short order. I’ll see if he’ll take it off the market for now. Maybe we can just rent it.” Trent offered.

“I would prefer to own it, but renting for now is acceptable. Call me if you need anything else. I’ll contact Victor. We need to take this threat very seriously.” I warned.

“Of course, Queen Bellamy. I’ll get some more warriors sent to the house for the vampires and get in touch with my contact. I’ll call you back later.” Trent promised.

“Thank you.” I replied and hung up.

I rubbed my temples. Werewolves didn’t get headaches, but I was pretty sure this was something like that. I was so frustrated that I wanted to scream.

Hunters being so close to my new friends frustrated me. I was grateful Dilly and Jean-Claude were back home, but also worried that it meant there was even less protection for Victor and his people. I was so torn as to what was the best way to protect them.

Quickly, I contacted one of my other teams and pulled them from the hunters they were tracking. These ones were highest priority as of right now.

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[Echo]

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It was a little after one in the afternoon when the buzzer went off in the entryway letting us know that someone was at the gate. We’d been in the living room making copies of the spell for everyone.

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