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Contact; About Us; Tag Archives. Archive of posts published in the tag: Black Dagger Brotherhood. Click Get Books and find your favorite books in the online library. Create free account to access unlimited books, fast download and ads free! Jane tells him that her parents died in a plane crash on their way to a medical conference ten years ago. V comments that they'd probably be proud of her and she said that they'd probably be moderately satisfied.
When she was 15, her dad told her that it was a good thing she was smart because with her looks she wouldn't marry particularly well. She joins him on the bed to watch a movie and V chooses something boring for no particular reason, just that she looks tired is all. Layla meets with Cormia to begin her sexual education.
Normally, Cormia loves learning, but she's dreading what's to come. To ease her fears, Layla tells her that she's met Vishous and tries to describe him in a way that won't terrify Cormia. The Directrix enters and whispers something to Layla, who has to leave immediately.
She informs Cormia that she'll be taking over her sexual education. When Cormia asks if perhaps she should wait for Layla, the Directrix takes the suggestion as an insult, becoming quite malicious and petty towards Cormia. She says that since Cormia will outrank her soon then maybe Cormia would like to dictate who walks behind whom. John's going through his transition and Layla feeds him while Beth and Wrath watch. John has a flashback to his previous life, specifically the opening scene of Dark Lover.
Hearing Darius discuss Beth, John infers that he didn't know about John's existence otherwise he'd likely have been as protective of a son as he was his daughter. Vishous tells Jane to sleep and she refuses, telling him that she wants to do it while awake. He says no, only in sleep because it's safer for her that way. She's not into fantasy, so if he's not into being with her for real then she'd rather not bother.
When he protests that he doesn't want to hurt her, she tells him to miss her with the paternalism. To get some distance, she went into the bathroom.
Following her, he pushes her up against the wall, pulls her hair, and says he tried to be nice but it's too late now and they're going to do it his way. Unleashing his dominant side, he takes control while they have sex, but he does not hurt her save for biting her.
John comes out of the transition craving bacon and chocolate. Before Beth and Wrath leave him, she tells John that she's proud of him and for some inexplicable reason, he wants to tell her that he's proud of her, too.
Alone with Layla, she helps him into the shower and begins to wash him. Even though he now has a libido, his interest dies as he remembers his sexual assault and he still feels like less of a man because of it.
There are some red marks on Jane's skin, which bothers Vishous. Thinking he was too rough with her, he asks if Jane's all right, which is something he's never asked a partner before and begins to apologize for how he treated her.
Stopping him, she tells him that it was so amazing she's not sure she can even stand upright. Vishous asks to kiss her and feels nervous like it was his first kiss. Sensing that, Jane kisses him instead and he realizes he'd never allowed anyone any power over him before.
They make love again, and while it's still as enthusiastic as the first time, he's less dominant and it's the first time he's been with someone he loved. Unfortunately, it's his last and only shot at love, but at least she'd be able to go on with her life without remembering him even though the though hurts him. After meeting with the Directrix, Cormia is horrified because she'd been assured that lying with the Primale would be painful and yet she won't be permitted to cry, which would be a disgrace to all Chosen.
She isn't allowed to ever refuse the Primale and since the Chosen are always fertile in the Sanctuary without a needing cycle , she'll inevitably fall pregnant and then be subjected to the risks of pregnancy and childbirth that all female vampires face. Cormia knows that the Directrix nominated her for the Primale's primary mate because doesn't want to relinquish her autocracy; of all the Chosen, she's the least welcoming or accommodating, so her recommendation was an act of passive-aggression defiance.
Cormia comes across Layla who's crying because she failed to please John sexually, in her humiliation she'd fled before reporting to the King and the Directrix what had happened as per tradition. Layla has decided to abdicate the role of ehros and Cormia tries to reassure her that she might not have been at fault, but Layla says that, that would be impossible. Additionally, the choice is a personal one because she can't personally bear another rejection.
Cormia wraps her in her own outer robe to provide what little comfort is permitted within the strictures of the Chosen and to hide some of Layla's dishevelment. After Vishous' transition, the Bloodletter felt threatened by his growing powers.
Immediately after the change was complete, about 24 hours sooner than usual for a male straight out of his transition, he set up a fight between Vishous and a soldier from whom V had stolen food a few weeks prior. Naked and armed with only a broom, he faced off against an established fighter wielding a spiked mace. Either he had to resort to using his hand and confirming the fears of the camp or he would lose and be raped by his opponent, proving to everyone that he was no threat.
No conduct was prohibited; there were only two rules: fighters were to fight until they could no longer stand and the loser had to submit themself for rape. Despite the disadvantages, Vishous still won by watching his opponent's habits and dodging until he found an opening for a groin strike.
When the fighter doubled over in pain, V struck him on the temple, knocking him out cold. His father taunted him before the entire assembly for his reluctance to rape his opponent, and goaded by those words and with hatred in his heart for his father, he took out his rage upon his conquered foe.
His first sexual encounter was, as a result, something ugly and violent, all about taking power from another and establishing his dominance over them. That still wasn't enough for the Bloodletter told him that because he fought dirty and was reluctant to rape his opponent, he was a weak coward and, unable to take any more abuse, V attacked him. Threatening him with his left hand's power, Vishous made a prediction before the whole camp: "You shall see your end in a wall of fire caused by a pain you know.
You will burn until you are nothing but smoke, and be cast upon the wind. Before Jane, sex had been about power given up to Vishous to ensure that he would never again end up tied down at someone's mercy and unable to fight.
What had happened with Jane was an exchange and he wanted to repay the trust she'd given him even though she was scared and he could have easily harmed her. The first thing John does when he wakes up is text the good news to Blay and Qhuinn. He thought about apologizing to Layla, but decides against it because it's too embarrassing and she's so perfect that she couldn't possibly blame herself for his lack of erection. Phury wakes up to Bella in his room while she's up while enjoying her single hour on her feet each day.
They reassure each other that they're ok after their surgery and doctor's appointment, respectively. Zsadist comes in to check on his twin and mate. When they leave, Phury burns the sketch he'd drawn of Bella. Vishous wakes up from the gunshot nightmare, which Jane assumes is a flashback to the attack and brings Butch running at the commotion.
Seeing that there's no physical threat, Butch tells Jane that Phury had stopped by earlier to thank her and his eyesight, which had been a concern, appeared to be fine. Vishous tells Jane he'll take her home that night. Blay and Qhuinn exclaim over how big John's gotten, about four inches taller than them or Lash and as big as a Brother. Zsadist tells John that instead of their usual walk, that they need to talk later about what happened the night before.
All of the young males take that to mean John's in trouble and each blames themself for some of the choices that led to the night's culmination in the parking lot. While Blay and Qhuinn thank John for saving their lives, Lash ruins the moment by insinuating that they're in a threesome.
John stares him down and Lash laughs, telling him that he's still a weakling inside. As punishment for attacking him and to diminish the threat that Vishous posed, the Bloodletter had warnings in the Old Language tattooed along the left side of V's face, hand, and groin indicating he was cursed.
Then, when the Bloodletter tried to have V castrated with a pair of pliers before banishing him, his soldiers were only partially successful before V's entire body glowed white and incinerated those physically touching him during the atrocity. The entire camp was too scared to touch him after that, allowing him to drag himself out of the cave and into the woods.
There was salt mixed with the dirt of the cave floor which sealed his wound and set the scars on his groin. Using a branch to help him walk, he wandered through the cold forest where some civilian vampires found him just before dawn.
They took him in for the day, but the warning tattoos incited fear in them and he left at nightfall. He wandered alone for years, feeding from humans. A century later, he worked as a mercenary for a merchant in Venice where he fed from vampire prostitutes. In Rome, V came upon a Lesser attacking a female vampire and killed the Lesser not to save the female, but to save her pretrans son hiding nearby from having to watch his mother die.
While the female, who was a fallen Chosen, died, he saved the boy and found a home for him. The boy, Hharm , went on to become Tohrment's father.
Word got out that he'd saved a male of warrior blood, and Darius sought him out and introduced him to Wrath, with whom he hit it off, and then he was inducted into the Brotherhood. After hearing the rest of Vishous' tragic past, Jane admits that she still hates oatmeal after throwing it up all over her father at her sister's funeral.
She tells him that she respects him for the person he's become and it's ok if he still struggles with what happened to him because that doesn't make him weak, although Vishous doesn't quite see it that way. He tells her to gag and cuff him to the table so he will be as exposed for her as he could possibly be and give her something he's given no one else. At his direction, she uses candle wax and a cane on him, nerves easing for both of them as they discover pleasure together.
After cleaning up, they go to Jane's condo where they both stall in an attempt to delay the inevitable. As he makes cocoa for her, he explains that he'll replace her missing memories and she might get some flashbacks, but they'll feel more like a dream.
Both of their hearts are breaking and the rising sun forces V's hand. Jane's crying into her cocoa in her kitchen where she can see a large man standing in the light of a street lamp watching her.
The urge to chase after him as he walks away hits her, but she's dropped by a debilitating headache. Even though she's supposed to go to work, between the headache, exhaustion, and weakness from what she remembers as the flu she decides to call and let her department know that she's still down with the flu.
Some things are out of place, like her car parked headfirst in the garage instead of backed in like usual. John's in the weight room with Zsadist, watching him lift weights, and the Brother asks him about his transition, if there were any physical problems. John signs no and Zsadist tells him that Layla had reported that they didn't have sex even though it looked like he'd been interested at one point.
Only Zsadist and Wrath know of it, and they only care if there's some physical issue that should get checked out. Zsadist asks why he stopped and John, getting pissed, can tell that he knows what had happened to him. A copy of his medical file had been sent over when he started the program in case of injury or emergency and only Z has read it, which he locked up in a location known only to him.
Z understands that John doesn't want to talk about it and he's not going to force him to; he promises to ensure that no one else will get to see his record, even if he has to burn the thing.
Z says he'll tell Wrath it was just a case of nerves and that'll be the end of it. Z asks him to masturbate at least once in the next 24 hours to ensure nothing's wrong and if something is, to let him know and they'll deal with it.
If he doesn't hear from John, then he'll assume everything's fine. As for the situation with the Lessers, Z not only doesn't care that John was carrying a gun, in fact, he wants him armed if he goes to ZeroSum again. His performance was impressive and Z's proud of him for protecting Blay and Qhuinn, but not to go out hunting for Lessers.
If John's to go clubbing again in the next month or so, he should go to ZeroSum until he's strong enough. Before leaving, John asks Z if he thinks less of him for what happened to him and Z tells him definitively that it was not his fault and he did not deserve it. No one should have their innocence raped from them, and survivors are the only ones who get to determine how they deal with it since it's no one else's business.
The unequivocal support coming from Zsadist of all people surprises John and he appreciates it. Vishous is scheduled to go to the Other Side that afternoon for the viewing ceremony and Butch agrees to serve as the equivalent of a best man at a wedding. When Butch comments on the dehumanizing nature of the ritual towards the first Chosen, Wrath agrees that some things need to change, however, that's one area over which he has no control.
Cormia is subjected to a dozen different ritual baths and various facial masks that use rose, lavender, sage, and hyacinth. She's rubbed with oil while incense is burned in honour of the Primale and prayers are chanted. Then she's dressed in a diaphanous chemise, over that is worn a heavy white hooded robe embroidered with diamonds and gold.
The hood is drawn up around the head and the tail pulled down over the face then tucked behind the buttoned front of the dress, leaving her blind and faceless; some vents at the neck provide fresh air.
This is intentional to symbolize her as representative of all Chosen and not herself as an individual. Feeling trapped and suffocated, Cormia has a panick attack. Manny's tried calling Jane to see how her interview went, but hasn't heard back from her and assumes she's avoiding him, so he calls up his former mentor at Columbia to ask him.
When his mentor tells him that she'd had to reschedule, Manny began worrying until his assistant informs him that Jane had called in sick. Going back to the files on his desk, he comes across a picture of a heart with 6 chambers instead of 4. Vishous is getting ready for the viewing, dressing in loose black silk pants and a matching top that looks like a smoking jacket from the 's. It will be easier for Vishous to maintain his composure if his best friend isn't there, so he asks Butch to have Grey Goose ready for him when he comes back and he'll take someone else.
V takes Phury instead and, ever the gentleman, he greets the Scribe Virgin with respectful dignity; chuckling, she tells him she's not likely to receive as warm a greeting from her son. The news of V's maternity shocks Phury, but he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut while V verbally takes out his anger, disappointment, and frustration on his mother. When she loses her patience, she suffocates him until he promises to be respectful towards her in front of the Chosen.
Without a will to live, Vishous stubbornly refuses, preferring to die. She was the first to bend, allowing him to breathe just before passing out. In the amphitheatre, Vishous sits on a golden throne and the Chosen is tied spread-eagled to a sort of tilted slab and rolled out onto the stage where two other Chosen reveal the body of the first Chosen, leaving her hooded.
Once he's given his less-than-enthusiastic approval of her, another Chosen uses a white feather to waft incense over the first Chosen three times: once for the past, once for the present, once for the future. Underneath the hood, Cormia's dying of despair and mortification, calmer after the Directrix forced a sedative down hr throat. Her terror spikes when she hears Vishous' callous "whatever" when the Scribe Virgin asks if Cormia is to his liking; the coldness in his voice convinces her that he will be even worse than the Bloodletter.
To add more humiliation, Phury has to give his approval as well. Phury thinks that the whole ceremony is wrong and focuses on not looking at anyone, until the Scribe Virgin requires his approval of Cormia as well since he's there as a witness. Seeing Cormia, he's immediately aroused and ashamed of himself for his reaction. His approval is full of awe compared to Vishous', earning the Scribe Virgin's approval.
Two Chosen bathe Cormia in incense again. Both Brothers smell Cormia's terror and V calls for a stop to the ceremony. The Scribe Virgin tries to overrule him, but he gets up on the stage, covers up Cormia's naked body, and frees her. V tells Phury to go home and he'll meet him there; while Phury's natural instinct is to play peacekeeper, he knows he has no chance standing between the two of them. Having passed out, Cormia wakes up, still hooded and frightened to hear Vishous next to her.
He removes the hood for her, promises not to hurt her, and askes her name. Shaken, Cormia asks if he's a god because how else could he interfere with the Scribe Virgin? V deduces that she's unwilling and is shocked when she admits that she's never seen a male before.
Jane wakes up and makes herself some coffee, wishing that it was cocoa instead, and gets a mental flash of a man handing a mug of cocoa to her before leaving. Manny stops by to check on her and, seeing she has a migraine, checks her out.
He tells her she doesn't have the flu but recommends a CAT scan on her head because of her symptoms and when she agrees just to shut him up, he kisses her. Understanding how severely he'd underestimated how difficult the mating would be for Cormia, V apologizes and they both realize that neither one of them wants it, but will do it for the greater good. Amalya comes to check on Cormia and V orders her to take care of Cormia until he returns in 2 days for the completion of the mating rituals.
Returning to the real world, V goes to Jane's place and finds Manny there looking like he's going to kiss Jane. Before V can attack, Butch stops him and the two friends brawl on the back lawn with V covering them with his. Once they've beaten the crap out of each other, they lie on the ground, catching their breath. Phury had told the Brotherhood what happened on the Other Side so Butch deduced that V would end up at Jane's when he returned. V admits he'd probably have killed Manny.
Agreeing, Butch advises him to stay away from Jane for her safety. For the first time, Vishous admits aloud that he'd been in love with Butch, which comes as no surprise to the cop, pretending to be dramatically heartbroken.
Getting serious for a minute, Butch tells him that there's a reason they met and they're in it together, V's feelings for him had probably been more about him caring for someone for the first time. Butch tries unsuccessfully to get V to leave with him but makes sure Manny's left before taking off.
Jane wakes up to a familiar man in her room and her screaming headache returns but falls asleep again. In her dreams, she begs him not to leave and they make love. Vishous knows that it's wrong since she can't give proper consent; his need for her overcoming his misgivings. Returning home, he's determined to get blind drunk for the next two days. John takes a test drive of his new libido while thinking of Xhex and finds that his plumbing works just fine; it's the thought of involving someone else that leaves him cold.
At 1 am, Phury goes to ZeroSum to pick up a professional for his first time, however, he needs two martinis first, and they go into one of the VIP bathrooms.
They get a table that has a pair of martini glasses and before long a prostitute comes along to hawk her wares. Rehvenge shoos her away and explains to the boys that in the VIP area it's pay to play whereas the open access area is catch and release. He tells them he's the owner and while they're there, he's responsible for them so please make his job easy.
Before leaving, he tells John that Zsadist said to say hello. The comment relaxes John a little knowing that the scary mofo was an ally. Blay and Qhuinn go trawling, promising to bring someone back for John.
Xhex stops by to congratulate John on getting through his transition and he experiences his first awkwardly timed erection.
Phury comes out of the bathroom with his prostitute and he and John see each other. When Blay and Qhuinn return with 3 girls, John's too uncomfortable when one hits on him and leaves. The next morning, Jane gets up and there's evidence that she had sex the night before. She assumes it had been with Manny, but doesn't remember it. Phury hadn't been able to climax with the prostitute and, feeling even dirtier than before, he considers moving out of the mansion.
He convinces Wrath and Vishous has to convince the Scribe Virgin. Vishous tackles him in a hug of gratitude. At the hospital, Manny accuses Jane of avoiding him and she admits that she's regretting having slept with him.
Shocked, Manny tells her that they didn't and she admits that she's been having memory lapses, hallucinations, and other concerning symptoms. Confessing that she's scared, he hugs her and tells her to stay out of the OR and they cover by telling people she's still recovering from the flu. He's going to make a call to a psychiatrist friend in California and schedules her a CAT scan with a clinic across town to keep her secret. Like watching an accident happen, she knows that her career is over because of her mental problems.
Vishous goes to see his mother and she knows he has feelings for "that human surgeon. Phury's preparing for the ceremony when Bella comes in and starts brushing his hair for him when he yanks a brush through it, practically ripping his hair out. He tells her that he's going to live on the Other Side and will only come back to fight.
Crying quietly, he thinks back on his life and feels like he's always been searching and reaching for what he wanted, but it was always just out of reach. Even when he'd rescued Zsadist, he'd spent a century being his brother's keeper.
Bella tells him that she wants him to truly fall in love and not what he thinks he feels for her. She reminds him that he's not had experience with females and he throws what happened at ZeroSum and his drug addiction in her face. He deserves better than that because he's worth more than he thinks and he's being self-destructive, she says.
They argue over whether or not he's a male of worth, but before they come to an understanding, he asks her to leave before he breaks down. Vishous goes to Jane's and Butch calls him because his computers found that Manny had accessed Michael Klosnick's medical file at the hospital looking for pictures of V's heart.
When Jane gets home, Vishous removes her memory block and tells her he's not getting mated. Jumping into his arms, she tells him she loves him and that she thought she was going crazy.
They have sex and afterwards, he feels a sense of foreboding. Stoned out of his mind, Phury completes the mating ceremony with Wrath, Zsadist, the Scribe Virgin, and the rest of the Chosen.
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