Chapter 8

"How is his mental state?"

"He does not look like he's back to destroy."

"And you are certain?"

"No, I am not, Jacob, but he is our family and he has come back to us after all these years. I will not turn my back on him. I will not abandon him."

"You will bear the consequences if he causes carnage."

"We will all bear the consequences if he gives in to his wrath."

Jacob Thorne, Head of the Thorne coterie to Tamara Thorne about Aiden Thorne, upon his return to Canada, 20 years ago.

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Aiden’s POV

I stood before Jacob, my uncle and his knights. Heads of sub councils headed by a Councilor.

Every continent had councilors, a group of six deadly vampires who exercised control over their own territory divided into equal parts, and had sub-councils in each country who oversaw the activities of vampires and answered to them. Jacob Thorne was on that Council, his home base a fortress in Quebec. A fortress I'd walked into to interrupt a ph