Chapter Seven

Months went by, Bradley and I finally made it one full year living in the city. I was living in Zahara's castle and Bradley stayed in the apartment. Bradley was fully in college and I was a full-time Guard for Zahara's business. Life was good for a long time, then I started to look for more of my family. More of my Father's family and mother's family. We found old information of all of them coming from a small village in Poland and all over western Europe. I got the information from Zahara and Litta. They had records of everything from the early days of human existence. I read that they were actually part of the empires of the time of the great wars of the old.

They even fought Zahara's family and her when she came into the world. From what I knew she was a cold bitch back in the day, now she's a kind ish lady from hell. To my surprise, everyone under the list of living members of my family was written yet. I guessed they had been off the radar for a long time and won't be found until they want to be found.

When I wasn't doing all that, I was given more roles in Zahara's company. Like I said before I was given the leading Guard's role which was Litta's. I was in charge of the building Itself. This sometimes got to me when the girls didn't follow my basic information when a client or guest walks in. Sometimes they just didn't send me anything so when I would lunch with Zahara. It scared and angered me when an unexpected guest was to arrive. So Litta had a talk with the girls about it and about a week later that they listened to me.

Life was good, with not too much interruption from outside sources. This made me a happy guy, not much was going on besides everyday life. Well, I liked to train on the weekends to get stronger. For If that demon ever returned, I'd be ready for his ass. Bradley joined me once in a while till he started to date that wolf girl, Lilly, the one who came to me when Brad got hurt by Lucifer. She was a nice girl, for the most part, She had her wild nature of a wolf. Like growling at the cat monsters around town, other than that she is a very nice girl.

The one part I want to share is the monsters of the world began to hear more about me. They heard I was stronger than Lucifer and I was married to Zahara, one of the biggest names in monster kind. This is when I realized she ruled more than the succubus. She had control over the monsters in Japan and most of western Asia. This made me the King of monsters, This was a lot to bear, but I could manage since I was just an advisor to my wife. Zahara did most of the work, so I just sat back and let her do what she wanted.

I started to get older, but, that's what happens to humans. Though I had monster blood in my veins I still had more humans in my body. This made me link back to my normal side more often than not. I still smelled like a human and I felt human, but I had the extra strength and power of a monster.

One day, though in the winter, I was outside the castle, smoking my custom-made Cigar. I was nice and smooth and no bigger, rounder than a U.S penny, and was as long a standard Sharpie marker. It had a thick smoke to it that caused the servants to cough so instead of making them feel like shit I went outside. I had gotten taller and I had grown a beard like a Greek god or a Viking. I got tanner and slimmed down from my training, I wanted to get stronger, but I also need to get faster. So, that is why I slimmed down a lot, I dressed more like a mob boss and everyone seemed to leave me alone.

Bradley had picked up smoking cigarettes, ones he's packed himself. They were bigger than the normal ones too. Almost like my cigars, but way easier to smoke. Well, I was just standing there overlooking the city, It was just early morning. The sky was beautiful and bright with the sun coming over the clouds. I was smiling about what was going to happen today. It was about two full years of living in this city, Going from working under a succubus to living and marrying the coldest bitch of all. Well, she wasn't too cold to me at least, or Bradley. Now I'm standing on a throne smoking the best cigars on an average cold morning.

Today felt way different from the others, It was strangely like I was going to find something out. My watch alarm went off and I started to get back inside the castle. I put in my Jacket when I got a call from the security office at the company. Someone was at the front desk asking for me and Bradley, "Yes, there is a young man about your age sir. He's asking for you and Bradley sir. " The girl said as I got into my car, I had bought an American muscle car about six months ago. It was a Black and red 1972 custom, Buick Riviera, it was loud and well made. It had a lot of modern parts in it and under the hood. Made my top dog King status more relevant for the people of the city. I picked up Bradley on the way to the company and parked outside the office.

When we entered the building I saw a gentleman sitting in the waiting lobby. I didn't recognize him right away, till he looked right at me. He had dark skin and was short, you could tell he was military from when he stood up. I only knew a few of my family from my mother's side, not very well mind you since I only met four people once. My cousin Jared, my Grandfather, and an uncle and Grandmother. As the guy stood up I knew It was my cousin Jared. He looked right at me and saw a very recognizable face. "Ah cousins, how are you guys?" He said to us as he shook my hand, then as I was about to speak when Zahara came into the building.

She smelled a different human in the building, her eyes lit up and she growled at Jared. She then saw Bradley and I were not in a panic state, or at least not yet. "Cousin this is my wife and you may already know her name." Jared shook her hand, then he looked around, He saw all of the employees but me were all female. "She's not who I think she is. Is she my Cousin? " He asked me when Zahara came to my side.

Zahara and Jared looked like two alley cats fighting over territory. I broke the silence, for it was getting awkward. "Hey, Jared, why are you here? Why all these years have you come to see me? " I asked him as he sat on the front desk, then he looked at us. "To be honest, the family heard you and your brother have been hanging out with monsters. Both families don't like this, they think you have turned against the humans. Is this true, did you turn against us? " Jared asked me as I turned to Bradley and Zahara, "Yes and no, I have no hostility to any human and I am technically a King of monsters. " As I said, that Jared got pissed of hearing that I'm a King. "The King part is technically right and wrong. You have no power over my servants, but they respect your power. " Zahara said to us, I turned to her, I smiled, then she said to Jared.

"I have not fought your family in a couple of centuries, I plan to keep it that way for Jacob." Jared looked at her and all he saw was a monster Queen, you could feel her blood lust overflowing around us. So, I broke the silence when they kept glaring at each other. "Jared, I can tell you this." Jared turned to me and was listening to me finally. "I Fell for her, no magic tricks and no curses. Just pure love, we even fought Lucifer himself once. " Jared saw deep in my eyes that I wasn't lying about that. Then he squinted at me when I continued. "I'll let you leave with this cousin If you or any of the family decide to come back without my or Zahara's permission again. Well, you just better not, I don't want to hurt my kin if I can help it. " Jared was getting angrier with me but understood.

He was leaving when he saw my car, I was right behind him. "Nice car, by the way, hope you have a good day." He got into a rental and was about to leave when he saw the whole city of monsters watching him. He looked at me and he saw that maybe I had become one of them after all. "Cousin here," I said to him, throwing him a flash drive with all my contact information on it. Then he left with a concerned look on his face, I wondered what he was thinking.

I assumed that maybe, he was going to tell everyone about me, or was he going to keep quiet about it? This I had decided on what he was going to do, All I knew was I would take on my family if I had to. I lit another Cigar before entering the building again. The front desk girls looked at me when I still had it in my mouth when I came back in. It was lit still but I wasn't smoking it, "Sir Is there something wrong?"

They asked me as I looked up at them. "Yeah, have some of the girls watch the borders for a few days," I said as I headed to my office near Zahara's. I had a thought that the family might come back and do something. This troubled me a lot, I told Jared I'd protect my wife and my city from anyone.

I sat in my chair and took a long puff on the cigar, I filled the office with smoke so thick you couldn't cut it with a knife. I smiled, then an evil thought came through my head. "If I had to I'd kill them all for even attempting it." Zahara came into my office after an hour and saw my vibe had changed. I looked like I was going to do something stupid. "Dear don't go thinking like that, those people won't challenge a Queen without reason." She said to me as she handed me my files on my cousin. I took it and looked at it, I read it and saw he was ex-military and was now working for a private company.

"Apparently, without knowing it, he's part of my other company in America that specializes in private security. He is the second in command for keeping a celebrity safe. A certain Keanu, he's been his security for years. " Zahara said to me as I was reading the same information. "Hey, we could pay that company a visit in the next week. To see If he's there or if the family lives in America. " I said to Zahara as she agreed to the request, Brad was heading to his classes after that small confrontation when I sent him the message. "Yo, Brad, We are heading to America next week, and yes that means you as well. We are going to check If Jared Is near the other family. " Brad looked at his phone and gave me a thumbs up and he went back to class.

I looked up at Zahara and told her, "Brads in." She smiled, "Good we could use all the muscle we got." We laughed for a second then she told me where Jared Lived and which state. He lived In LA and it was going to be in the city. I and Zahara went back to work till the end of the week where I had things ready for our trip. I got my car okayed for the states and had it to be ready for when we got there. It was gassed up and I got its oil changed for the trip. Zahara had her own hanger and plane so we didn't have to deal with the regular airport crap.

So I had a couple of things put on the plane, like new suits I liked and a crap ton of cigars. All the suits were dark red and I had a black shirt with each one. I filled up my lighter full of fuel and we headed to the plane. We were ready and boarding the plane, I was on the top step of the plane when I looked back to the city, to see everyone watching us as I stepped into it. Brad was right behind me with his regular clothes on. He looked like a real college student, He was all clean and held an energy drink in his hand.

The plane took off and then we headed right to the states for the first time in years. Since the incident with the gangsters, This scared me for a second, " What if the gang knew I was back in the country?" then I remembered that I am not the same person from those days. I have grown darker and stronger, No knife or gun would be able to hurt us anymore. I sat down across from Zahara and Brad when I stared at the cigar tray. I wanted to light up a one, but I waited. It was too early in the flight yet. We haven't even left the ground yet. I had music playing on and we spent the flight going over old memories.

It was nice and long like my cigars that I was still looking at. I really wanted to smoke them, but the plane would get filled up too fast with smoke. Zahara saw me looking at them again and she laughed at me when I looked at her. She handed me a pipe with tobacco in it and had me smoke near the back of the plane. I got up and went there as I lit the pipe and took a deep breath. I had a chair to sit in and a long time to sit so I watched the clouds for a bit.

It was going to be hours till we landed and I was getting tired of doing nothing. So I took a walk back to Zahara, she was asleep in her seat looking out the window. I saw she looked cold and so I put a blanket on her and sat in a chair on the other side of the plane to let her sleep. Litta was with us and she saw me do that. She had a huge smile on her face for a moment. "I've never seen her let her guard down as she does around you and Bradley."She sat next to me as she began to tell me more about her past with humankind and the last great war.

"Back before (Jesus) or whoever that was. Humans used to fear or still feared what was different, they would hunt weaker monsters and wage wars against the stronger ones. So after that man was born, the humans began to take over and the wars got worse. Both sides lost a lot of people, mostly innocent, Zahara's mother you know is one of the oldest rulers of the succubus kind.

She made her children fight with her in many of those wars, all of them have been around for at least one recent one. Which I think was about a thousand years ago. Zahara was an evil monster back then, but when things of this area calmed down. She began to get less angry and less evil, she seems to be more gentle now with you around. " Litta said to Me as I know some of the histories, I didn't want to interrupt her till she looked at me.

"I knew most of that, from her mother and father, I also saw a lot of the paintings in Lilith's castle. I didn't really care about the past much, Things happen, there's nothing we can do to change the past. I did some stupid things and had to leave with Bradley. Now that I'm stronger and I have back up, or at least help from those around us. I can do what is needed and not be so distracted. " I was getting tired and I began to fall asleep. I saw the sun begin to go down and I finally passed out for a while.