Grant and Dylan let out a sigh. Devon's heart stopped beating after his step-brother left his room.

"Dylan, quick bro, we should not delay it anymore." Grant shook his head. Uncle G turned to Devon, then back to Dylan.

"Yeah." Dylan took off. He went near the wall of Devon's room. He touched it with his palm, waited for a few seconds then changed his position.

Dylan started walking around the whole room with his palm against the wall. He walked till he stopped in front of Devon's bed.

"Forget your breakfast, kid. We should send you back before anything happens.. more importantly if Darell plans something weird and dangerous."

Devon did not reply, he got up from his bed. He wondered what his dad had for him in surprise.

"Grant, can you wait here for a second? I will bring a fresh blood flask for him." Dylan glanced at his elder brother.

Grant gave Dylan a nod and walked near the wall Dylan was standing before. Dylan, within a blink of an eye, vanished from Devon's eyes.

'Damn.. I never knew dad was so fast!' his mind was blown. Devon sat on the corner of his bed and kept staring at his father's after images.

"I never thought Dylan would create a hidden room in your room," Grant muttered while trying to push the wall with all his might. But the wall did not break, it did not even move.

"What room?" Devon asked. It seemed like Uncle G knew something Devon did not.

"Oh right. You were on some planet for your whole life. You do not know about secret passages created inside the castle for a sweet escape."

"Huh? When did that happen?"

Grant turned to Devon with a serious expression, "Before I was kicked out of the family." he muttered in a low voice, loud enough for Devon to hear.

"....." Devon looked down, "You.. you were.."

"Hah?" Grant could not figure out Devon's words.

"You were not kicked out, uncle G.." A frown appeared on uncle G's face. Devon lifted his head, looked straight into Grant's eyes, "You proudly left the family. Please do not say you were kicked.. you decided to choose your own path."

"Haha, right. I was the crazy one who wanted to become a beast trainer. I left the family to become a rogue vampire.."

"And that is the best decision you ever took." Devon added, "I want to leave this family as soon as possible.. I also want to do something proud like you.."

Grant had a piece of sadness on his face, "You should.. you should.." he said twice, "But only if you have people or at least one single person who trusts you and supports you."

Devon tilted his head. The first image that formed inside his mind was Uncle G's face, the second image that then appeared in his mind was of Brandon's face... And.. the third and the eventual image that met him was the face of.. Ryan.

"Believe me, living a life of a Rogue vampire alone is something you do not want to go from."

"Alone? Were you? I thought dad was with you-"

"He was not.." Grant shook his head, "At first, he was not. You know, being the eldest son and still leaving the family instead of taking the position of master and handling the family, I was leaving the family behind."

Devon continued listening.

"So everyone kind of hated me.. even your father Dylan." Grant stopped pushing against the way, turned his body, and looked at Devon, "Something, that I can not tell you right now, happened. I gained Dylan's trust back, eventually, he started supporting me but.."

"But?"

"It was too late already. His support came but not when it was needed.. much later after it was not needed anymore." Grant threw his head down.

That exact moment, he sensed his brother come back. "There he is." Grant snorted.

"Here Devon,"

Whoosh!

Dylan was standing in front of Devon with five flasks in his hands. He stretched out his hand for his son to accept the blood flasks.

Devon glanced up and down at the flasks and his father, "Five?"

"Yeah. we do not know when you will accidentally be thrown back to Aceved, and I do not want to be worried sick about you if you are getting the blood required or not. So here it is. Stock for one year."

Dylan further stretched out his hand, "Only if you do not get addicted to drinking blood, drinking even the necessary one liter of blood a week, this stock will last you for the next coming year."

Dylan smiled and offered Devon the flasks again. Devon took a glance at those flasks, they were medium-sized blood flasks, the same as Brandon's but slightly different in size.

"You are giving him from your treasure?" Grant threw his head down at his brother's hands, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I am the boss here, I can call as many humans as I want from the earth,"

"No, that is not the problem but.. all these are advanced tier flasks, that too your own flasks!"

Devon got what Uncle G was implying too. Devon looked at his father, "No, I can not dad-"

"Ah, Grant why did you have to break it to him!?" Dylan groaned, "Shut and just take them, Devon."

"But, how can I possibly take then dad?!" Devon shouted back, "Would not feel the pain of your bond breaking? Would not you lose yourself if I go away with your items billions of light years away? I can not. Just give me some intermediate stuff." Devon demanded.

"See, it will hurt obviously but not as much as.. if this goes away." Dylan lifted his hand and showed Devon a ring which was sitting in Dylan's ring finger.

"Your wedding ring?" Devon tilted his head.

"Yeah. Your mom's and your dad's wedding ring. I collected the Emperor Tier beast's core myself for our wedding."

Devon's eyes went wide, "E- E- Emperor Tier?! The highest Tier ever!?"

"Ah-hah! I knew my brother would go that far for love!" Grant hugged Dylan from the side, "Those days when we were still young.."

"Yeah, Grant... 17 years back," Dylan scoffed, "Not so young huh?"

"Young enough to kill an emperor tier beast. Well, we vampires do not get old anyway." Grant shrugged and turned away from him.

"Take them, Devon." Devon silently accepted the flasks.

Dylan happily walked up the wall. With a slight push of his hand.. the wall fell apart.

With the wall, Grant's eyes also fell off. His mouth fell apart.

Dylan turned around, "Come on, Devon."

Devon got up from the bed, turned around, and walked up to the secret passage.

Inside the castle, while the castle was being made, Dylan secretly installed a lot of secret tunnels and passageways inside the castle, in literally every room.

But the thing is that no one knows where they are. Even Dylan forgets where he has installed the secret passway in a particular room.

"Dad.." Devon lifted his eyes from the flasks, "Where is mom? I want to meet her." the shock of Grant's face disappeared. The smile on Dylan's face disappeared.

"Hah.." Dylan chuckled, "She is alive.. but away from me and the family." Dylan replied with a fake smile, "Now come on, do not waste time."

Dylan moved away from the little passway and offered Grant and Devon to enter the secret passage.

Grant did not say anything, he walked up to Devon. Grant let Devon enter the dark place first then he joined him.

From behind, Dylan stepped in. He pushed back the small piece of wall and closed the secret way.

"How the hell did you open the passage so easily?"

"What easily?"

"I tried pushing it, the wall did not even twitch! How did you manage to open the passway with only a single push!?" Grant whispered in Dylan's ear.

Dylan looked at his brother, "Because I am their creator. I am the boss," He increased his pace, caught up with Devon.

"Within the next few meters, you will encounter a portal. That portal will throw you where ever you want. Do not worry, the whole secret pathway system has my blood flowing through it. So you would not have any trouble passing through."

Devon nodded, "Is mom on the earth?" Devon still had his mother on his mind.

Dylan got up, "We will stop here. You keep walking, at some random point, you will walk through the portal without realizing it. So be sure you have the right place on your mind."

Devon nodded. Dylan and Grant stopped walking. Devon did not ask anything as he got no reply to his previous question.

"See you later, my child." Grant waved his hand from a distance, "I will make sure to grind that little brat before you visit again."

Devon just turned around, waved his hand, and continued walking. Dylan and Grant kept watching him from behind.

"Hey, Devon!" Dylan shouted as he saw the portal approaching Devon, "Find Grace! Bring her back to Aceved. And tell her that I said 'hi'!"

Devon turned around but suddenly a portal came and took Devon with it.

"We should get out of here." Grant turned around.

"Oh do not worry, we are standing out of its radius."

"So do you want to spend the rest of your life here?"

"Right. No." They both turned around to walk out of the secret passage.

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