Necessary Evil

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Necessary Evil – Mychael Black

Legends of the Romanorum, Book 5

Lance Shaw knows life with his lover Triarius is anything but dull, but when Triarius tells him about a vampiric son named Aldrich, Lance isn’t sure what to think. To make matters worse, Triarius’ trusted friend and general, Apollonius, has arrived to help with bringing Aldrich to justice for his crimes against the Romanorum, and Lance finds himself drawn to the man. He’s not the only one, either. Just as Lance, Triarius and Apollonius come to an arrangement, however, Aldrich pays the Inferi Brotherhood a visit, ready to take over his father’s rule by force. Can Lance, Triarius, and Apollonius keep their people–and their hearts–safe? Or will an announcement from Triarius seal their fates once and for all?

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EXCERPT:

“A Son. You have a Son?”

“Vampirically speaking, yes.”

Triarius didn’t seem inclined to elaborate, which meant I had the rather unpleasant task of hounding him until he talked. Since he returned from his brief visit with Diocourides, Triarius had been quieter than usual. I had the feeling his Son, whom I’d heard nothing about before, had something to do with it. “You’re angry.”

“A bit,” I admitted. “You having a Son doesn’t bother me. It’s the fact that you kept it from me.”

Triarius sighed and stood. “What’s done is done. You know now.”

“Goddamn it!” I grabbed his arm before he could walk away, ignoring the look he gave me that would’ve scared the piss out of anyone else. “When were you planning on telling me?”

“And say what? Admit that I failed as a Father? That Aldrich was my worst mistake?” Triarius jerked free and backed me up against the wall, voice low. “Or would you rather I told you with his blood on my hands after I slit his throat?”

I swallowed. “You’re going to kill him? Why?”

Triarius spun on his heel and started for the door. “Because he threatened to destroy everything my Father and I have worked for,” he shot over his shoulder before slamming the bedroom door behind him.

What had just happened?

I blinked, still standing in the middle of the bedroom, wondering what I’d said to piss him off so much. A lot of parents, even vampires, I imagined, go through the whole ‘I’m a bad parent’ thing, right? So why was Triarius making such a big deal out of it? I sighed and raked a hand through my hair. There were times when I really didn’t understand the man and his moods. He was over two thousand years old, sure, but he still acted like a damn teenager sometimes. Then again, having done the math, I’d finally realized a while back that he’d been eighteen when Dio turned him.

How I managed to get myself into these things, I didn’t quite know.