Night Watchers
an excerpt

He had seen the change with Celio’s attitude. He had seen how much the other was craving for attention, for passion. He was silently screaming to the world to let him breathe; to let him take a gulp of air, of oxygen before diving again in the dark and blue and mysterious ocean of Akushi’s universe. Celio was nothing without him, without somebody to lean on time to times; he was nothing except a worn fang, an already destroyed claw, a sprayed body on the floor. Celio was dependant of him, of Thom, of them. He couldn’t live without their looks on him; he was blind without their gaze, their sight, blind and voiceless without their mouths, their words. Could he exist? No, he couldn’t, never.

Akushi had planned this since the beginning. He had known the weakness of Celio for years now, for months but he never said something about it, keeping it secret in the bottom of his mind, in the most obscure place of his head. He kept it secret because it was his weapon and his shield against Thom’s gang, against LHUSTHE.

He had broken Celio before letting him alone at home, with Suer to watch his back, to make sure that the other was doing what Akushi had asked. And he did it. He had written the word on his thigh, puzzled, knowing absolutely nothing that reconocimiento, that this gratitude would be his last feeling, his last emotion. Celio would die with Thom, together tied and drugged by the same product, tied by the same thoughts. They would bleed, they would die, blind, mute and helpless, useless. They would be broken by the insides, they would be corpses at the end of the night, and they would be nothing, except for rotten worms.

When he had gone outside of his apartment, it was to hunt Thom, to find where he was hiding and he did find. That coward was with his sister, with Amy, hoping to be protected by her neutrality, but it seemed that it wasn’t enough because Amy, even if she hated to take position, to help someone at the expense of another person, she could be bought by money, by services.

Everything had a price.