Michael apologized over and over again to Damianus when he got back to The Abode. That was the name the vampires of New Order gave their underground city.

Damianus dismissed his apologies and told him that he couldn’t have known that would be the outcome anyway.

Then he asked about the history of the men he met at the hotel. He of course knew that the Unclan was one of them. His deductive powers were unlike any other and being an Originer, he could detect one of his kind from miles away.

He was interested though in the economic power that the man wielded. From the little he had seen of the human world, he knew that their rich were snobbish and the boy’s father wouldn’t have demanded that his boy apologized if the Unclan was not a man of affluence.

“He is the CAC chairman” Michael explained. Then he explained what CAC was about. They were sitting out on the porch of Michael’s house after Mathew had excused himself.

The bungalow was modest for a man of Michael’s worth and when Dam