Surrendering(104)

He’d taken several long-term human lovers over the years, although that was infrequent. They were all beautiful women and great lays, but he was forced to break it off when they professed their love, even though they’d mutually agreed no strings at the beginning. His last long-term lover had been nineteen years ago now and another nineteen would be too soon for him.

He was actually looking forward to seeing what females the Midwest had to offer and planned on checking out Dev’s clubs while in town, particularly his new one, Dragonfly. Maybe he could get a few ideas for his own clubs. Between the three lords, they owned over three-dozen nightclubs, with Rom holding the bulk.

They still hadn’t found all of the missing girls, and the nine doctors and eight scientists Dev’s team recovered from Xavier’s lair were now his and Rom’s responsibility. Dev and Kate had their hands full with the shelter and the rescued women.

Xavier had done some pretty fucked up shit and Damian still couldn’t believe what they’d discovered.

Xavier was running a baby factory, that much had been verified. And they’d found a way to impregnate unbounded human females. That still boggled his mind.

No babies had been recovered, however. So where were they? None of the recovered humans proved to be helpful in that regard…they were all held against their will as well. They only knew, once delivered, the babies were separated from the mother and taken off-site. They were still sorting through the boxes of the paperwork, computers, and flash drives that had been recovered, but the gist of it was Xavier had kidnapped countless young women over the years and had only started looking for dreamwalkers within the last decade.

Their main objective these past few months had been to find the remaining missing girls and babies, so the subject Kate’s parentage hadn’t received much discussion. Quite frankly, they didn’t know if the humans they’d recovered would even know anything about it.

So what he’d found out today had floored him and he’d made the executive decision not to discuss it with Dev until his return. He was sure Dev would cancel his honeymoon and Damian had every confidence he and Rom could piece together more of the puzzle in his absence. Dev and his mate needed some time away from this madness. Unfortunately, it would all be here when they returned.

Damian replayed his conversation with T this morning. Since Giselle had been so despondent lately, refusing to continue her research with the human detective, Damian offered T’s services instead. That vamp was wicked good at research. He was also very persuasive during interrogation and they spent hours a day interrogating the humans, but there were so goddamn many of them, it was an arduous task.

“My lord, I have some new information that I thought should be shared with you first. The detective does not know and I thought that best for now.”

“What is it T?”

“Dr. Marcus Shelton, Xavier’s lead physician and researcher, revealed to me that Xavier is unable to sire male offspring.”

“What? How is that possible?”

“According to the doctor, it’s a genetic anomaly. No one knew besides Xavier and himself. In his spare time, he was trying to find a cure, but he hadn’t been able to yet. And that’s not even the best part. Dr. Shelton was the one given the task of eliminating unwanted female vampires. The female babies sired by Xavier.”

“Holy shit. Vampires? As in, plural? As in…there are more?”

“Yes, my Lord. During the first ten years that Dr. Shelton was held captive, he indicated Xavier sired at least a dozen females. He hasn’t sired any for the last two decades or so because he stopped participating in the insemination process.”

“So there are over a fucking dozen of Xavier’s female offspring running loose in the world?”

“No, my lord. At first, Dr. Shelton did what he was told and disposed of the babes. He said he couldn’t bear to kill any more innocents and began hatching a plan to save them. He is also apparently quite skilled with computers, and found different families on nearby adoption registries that had been waiting many years for infants. He began showing up on their doorsteps late at night, hoping they would accept a child, no questions asked. He had successfully the first child, when he ran into issues with the second. The family was suspicious and called their adoption representative while he was still at the home. He fled, leaving the baby there. He doesn’t know what became of that baby. He placed a third successfully a couple years later. After that child, Xavier gave up the insemination duty to his other rogues. Obviously if Xavier ever found out, it would not only put the doctor’s life in danger, but that of the doctor’s family.”