The Rogues Who Went Rogue
Chapter 124

At Vent's inn, Greg barged in without batting an eye for anyone present. Two of his followers took Vent, and the rest followed him to the kitchen. Even the chefs with choppers and knives didn't dare attack the duke. They merely watched in shock. When Greg shoved the cheese off the shelf, the chefs sprinted out of the kitchen, not knowing that his followers were already stationed outside to lead them into a truck for a t*****e session. Jade did his thing with the keypad that was recessed into the shelf layer and got the hidden wall to open. The moment the triplets heard the freezer door open, Ourelia shouted while looking into the test tube in her hand, "We didn't ask for you, Vent!"

The scoff they heard in response sent a shiver down their spines. Only one creature possessed a deep, dark scoff like that. Before any of the siblings could take another step or say another word, the duke's followers dashed forward to hold each of them in place, slamming them to the walls and pinning them there.

Greg caught Ourelia mouthing 'f**k' when their eyes locked, so he decided to start with her. His rough hand held her by her face when he asked, "Where the f**k are the bloodsuckers?"

Matthew questioned in return, "Does that even matter?" Desmond and Ivory kicked his kneecaps and heard him groan, a warning to never speak unless being spoken to.

Ourelia kept her lips sealed, but when Greg began squeezing her face and fracturing her facial bones, she choked out, "If you want...answers, why didn't you just...bring your new girlfriend to question us...instead?"

Greg NEVER had a girlfriend. The term was just used to push his buttons, but he prepared himself for this. Every living being with ears in the rogue world would have known about this weak spot of his by now. After what he did to the Kyltons and to himself, he knew that any future enemies he may have would use Lucianne to throw him off, to make him feel that he wasn't as great as he presented himself to be, to hurt his ego and make him feel pathetic since he couldn't get the woman he wanted.

Some would even take it a step further by saying that he didn't even have the balls to challenge his cousin. It wasn't about balls. It never was. Lucianne's happiness was the determining factor for his decision to just let her be, and if the shallow-headed imbeciles in the rogue world couldn't understand that, then f**k them.

Instead of retorting with anger to give his opponent the mildest satisfaction, Greg smirked darkly at Ourelia before responding, "The queen...had more pressing matters to attend to, and she KNEW that I wanted this assignment even without me saying so. Great chemistry we share, don't you think? Besides, having her use the Authority on you three would have been way too easy. She extracts answers with minimal torture. And you know me, I don't do minimal torture. Life is made to be much more interesting than that. Now, let's stay on subject. My subject. Where are the bloodsuckers you three put in a coma?"

Ourelia wasn't going to budge, and the crackling of her bones echoed through the walls of the laboratory. Nessa exclaimed, "Stop it, you idiot! Stop it!"

Greg's lilac eyes went to the other sister as his hand continued pressing Ourelia's cheekbones when he said, "Tell me what I want to know, then I'll stop...for now, that is."

Nessa breathed heavily as she sealed her lips. Alissa would have punched her in the gut had her eyes not given her away. She was looking at a tall, metal rack at the corner.

Greg snapped his fingers twice to ask for two followers as he too approached the rack. After moving the rack aside, he murmured, "Find the keypad. It must be the same as the one in the freezer."

The two pushed everything off each layer of the shelf as they searched. Greg stared at the wall as his hand ran along the one line he could find traveling from the floor to the ceiling. One of the two followers found the keypad, punched it the same six digits and the wall opened as Greg stepped aside.

He took two steps in, glanced at the place with furrowed brows, and walked over to the section where the children were kept. He heaved a heavy sigh before shaking his head, completely disgusted with the triplets.

The two followers stood at the entrance awaiting instructions, which Greg ultimately gave, "Get every bloodsucker out of here. We're sending them back to the empire. I only need three of you outside Vent's place. The rest of you, load them to the cars and get them back." "Yes, Your Grace."

When his people got to work, he himself got back to the main reason he made the trip. His anger seethed through his onyx orbs and sinister smile when he said, "As nauseating as you three are, I can't deny that we still share something in common - a love for science. I'm more of a physics guy but I remember that you three love playing with chemicals. Now, where's that thing you three liked to play with?"

He walked around the lab like it was his own home, searching for syringes of oleander that he once saw lying around their old lab when he first visited the place. The triplets once mentioned that they mixed oleander with other chemicals, seeing if a stronger substance would ever come out of it just in case some goody-two-shoes scientist came up with an antidote for the lethal poison in future.

Greg found what he was looking for at Matthew's side of the table. He lifted one of the syringes, held it inches away from his nose as he took a whiff before setting it back on the table as he murmured to himself," Concentration of whatever the f**k you three added in this with oleander is too high. Anyone would die too fast with this one. How about this one?"

He sniffed the second syringe. "Concentration's lower but not sure if it's what I'm looking for. Hm," his shoe tapped against the floor as he thought for a moment before he said, "You three like to do test runs, I recall. The Blue Crescent one was really an experiment to remember, and perhaps it helped in confirming or debunking whatever theories that you three had. I have a theory now. Let's run a test, shall we?"