"Come on in." I heard him once we entered the his new place. I had my guard up and was ready for anything

"Have a seat, I'd offer you a drink but..." he pointed out the obvious

"Sweet pad" I commented looking around

"It's just temporary, a friend hooked me up. Believe me or not I've still got a few of those kicking around. I need those friends to keep me informed, to warn me when someone's coming looking to blame me for things I didn't do. For the record you didn't have to work Diego over like that. The two of you and I  are long overdue for a chat."

"If you wanna talk, talk" Hayley glared

"Tough girl, you're al lot like your dad in that way." I saw Hayley's expression change "Oh yeah. I knew him. I knew your whole family, and if you knew them like I did then you'd know just how many enemies they have. Back in the 90s it was the Crescent wolves who took over the city. Or tried to. They lived to throw down, and they were good too. They didn't care who they killed as long as they got more power.

"So the Crescent curse was your way of stopping them? how heroic."

"It was either that or kill them all and I'm not big on indiscriminate  slaughter. See, I have a thing about kids, Beth you should know about this one."

"Yes I've heard" Hayley spoke

"You did more than hear about it Andrea Labonair, you're living proof" he told her

"How long have you known who I am?" Hayley asked

"I saw how interested you were in those crescents. After your little family reunion out at the old plantation house,  I started to put two and two together."

"Tell me something Marcel. Did you kill my parents?"

"There was infighting among the wolves, your folks were laying low. Somebody turned on them I honestly don't know who. I turned up afterwards found you in your crib."

"Give me one good reason why I should believe anything you have to say?"

"Believe whatever you want but you were the last Labonair. I mean I could have been a lot of leverage for our side but instead I took you to Father Kieran. He then grabbed a black duffle bag.

"What is that?" I asked speaking for a while

"Money mostly. Stuff you both need to start over someplace safe. Whatever happened in the Bayou I'm not your guy, but the way things are going I might have to be"

"So that's your plan, get us out of town Nik and Elijah follow closely behind?"

"I can't say that wouldn't be a positive side effect."

"So why don't you leave take your own advice?"

"I was born here"

"So was I" Hayley replied she came over to me

"Marcel, not that I'm trying to put ideas in your head but can I tell you something?"

"By all means" i walked closer.

"I was exactly like you I belonged to where I was born, I wanted to stay there till the day I died. But then I realised something"

"And what was that"

"I had outgrown it. I was shown that I wasn't a small town girl, I was a girl who needed to see the world. Look I'm not going to go into the nitty gritty but I get why you want your home back I really do. And this is not a threat but the more you try to fight change they worse it is for you. I didn't want things to change in my own little world after I turned but I was made to face the truth in a brutal way. If you weren't trying to overthrow my family I might even like you.

What I'm trying to say is, sometimes you need to accept change because if you don't in the end people will only get hurt" I turn round to leave

"Guy on the bike, the bomber. Word is he had a gambling problem. Owed money to the casino's . More importantly to the humans who run them. And girls, remember when things get bad I tried to get you clear of it" we turned round and left.

We arrived back at the Bayou and at this time it had gone dark. I saw Elijah's state

"Elijah" I breathed I looked at his sut covered face and saw some of his clothes were ripped I looked over him.

"You stayed" Hayley breathed we then looked over and one of the wolves talking.

"What is going on what is he doing?"

"He's making a move for power in the wake of a tragedy. He's not alone there was another attack of you left."

"What."

"Eve she...Your friend Jackson will need your help, they will want vengeance. Blood for Blood. And unfortunately in troubled times people do not look for the best but rather the loudest"  Hayley ran off.

"Whatever is going on between you and Nik you need to fix it." I told him "There is a war coming it's just unfortunate is around our due date but it's going to be ugly.