Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 99

　　One hundred years later

　　Thaddeus’s POV

　　My name was enough to send most people running those that didn’t were fools, for they would feel my wrath. I am the king of darkness. The dark Tribrid they call me, the one that changed the world. I am destruction and countries have fallen by these hands. Forgiveness isn’t a part of my vocabulary; I didn’t grant forgiveness or mercy. It was best to stay on my good side. My mother thought she was protecting me, keeping my magic from me. That betrayal hurt the most.

　　She took a piece of me and I nearly killed her getting it back. I knew growing up I was different. I saw life differently. Sure, I came from a home filled with love and everything a child could desire. My parents would have moved heaven and hell for me. Yet that was their downfall. Their betrayal. From the outside, we were the perfect family. Our lives were great until my sixteenth birthday. I stopped aging at thirty, but the darkness made me feel every bit of the hundred and one years I have had on this earth. Sucking every part of me away until I become what I am now, I used to fear the darkness now I embrace it.

　　The darkness came for me on my sixteenth birthday, and I found the missing piece. The one thing I craved, and that was power. Power to control everything and everyone. My mother tried to save me, tried to even take me down. If she wasn’t my mother, the woman who literally gave her life for me. I would have ended her. That wasn’t her decision to make. I knew instantly my entire life was a secret; they kept from me.

　　Astral and the covens came for me once I possessed my power, my mother telling them where to find me. I slaughtered them all and have been on my own ever since. For decades I roamed the earth trying to find meaning, and I stumbled across my mates.

　　At first, they feared me. Everyone had heard my name by then, not a country left intact as I made my way through each one trying to figure out my purpose. I met Ryland first. He was just as evil as me and a werewolf; we continued our reign of terror until we met our other mate. I was hoping for a woman, not that I was uncomfortable with my sexuality. It is what it is, and quite frankly, I would fuck anything with legs to fulfill my needs and that of my mates. Orion though was different, weaker. He didn’t agree with my past and the things we had done; he was much older than both of us and knew of my grandfather. Orion is a vampire and a little old-fashioned, but he was mine even though he annoyed me and frustrated me to no end.

　　He hated me, but he came to see reason. Has remained by my side even when he doesn’t agree, trying to talk me down, trying to change me. Though now I think he has given up.

　　Sitting on the balcony of my penthouse apartment. I looked over the city, my eyes scanning as I watched the crowds of people below, unaware of the monster watching them.

　　I hear movement behind me, and my eyes snap to the glass sliding doors. She hands me a smoke and I light it breathing in deeply. Enjoying burn in my throat from its harshness.

　　“When are you going to go home, haven’t you punished them enough? They did it to protect you. It is time you stop this, whatever it is you are doing.”

　　“And what is that?” I ask her, looking back toward to city.

　　“The destruction, what are you trying to prove? Who are you looking for?” she asks and I sigh. Only she would get away with questioning me like this. I always had a soft spot for her. She listened and didn’t judge, no matter how much I fucked things up.

　　“I am not trying to prove anything. I don’t need to.”

　　“Then why Thaddeus, why all this?” she asks.

　　“Because I can, that is why,” I tell her. She shakes her head.

　　“Your mother said there was still good in you, that we just had to find it, that we could pull you back from the darkness. Now I am not so sure anymore. I can’t watch you destroy yourself, destroy everything you put your hands on. I am sorry, Thaddeus, but I can’t. I am going home, come and see me when you see sense,” she says.

　　“You’re leaving already. You just got here,” I tell her, growling at her. She steps back, frightened.