Edmund had never seen his brother mad the way he was. He knew that he didn't play games but it was very hard for him to react to certain things.
The man's eyes started to turn into slits the more he squeezed his neck until they had a commotion from the door.
Mateo was not surprised by the show the Watson brothers had dismayed, he had not expected anything less from them.
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"Just let him go ", he said as he made his way over to where Elijah was standing.
Elijah let go of the man and approached Mateo.
"When we said we don't kill each other it did not mean that you had the right to disrupt everything else. Did you think there would be no consequences?", Elijah asked him with no emotion showing on his face.
He was always relaxed you wouldn't even know when he was mad at you. Which made him even more dangerous than his brother who lit up like a flame when he was mad.
"What are you going to do ?", Mateo asked him and Elijah chuckled.
The stupid little brat wanted to play games with him to see if he had it in him to kill. He would show him how much he would do.
If there was one thing that he had was that if they made you look like a bad person you had to show them how bad you were.
"You know your little game doesn't move me. Am not Edmund who wants to know what you can do. I will snap their necks without thinking twice and come for you last ", he said as he turned around to look at the people.
"You know very well I can do that so stop playing with me and get out before I lose my patience", he said and he didn't have to repeat himself.
The people started leaving and clearing all the things that they had already set up.
Mateo had thought that Edmund was the worse brother but seeing how both of them react they were just all worse.
No one was more brutal than the other and playing ego games would do nothing more than get him killed. They knew no bounds and would go to the depths of hell to prove their point.
The people all left and Edmund, Elijah, Mateo, and Arnoldo were the only people remaining.
"I told you not to mess with me and I won't repeat myself ", said Elijah.
"Who do you think you are to order him around ?", asked Arnoldo.
"And who are you because I have never heard about you whereas when it comes to me and my brother am sure you have heard a lot ", said Elijah smiling.
For a moment Arnoldo thought that he could do something to Elijah. He pounced ready to attack and it only took Elijah to like his fingers and he couldn't move.
"I see they failed to tell you how powerful I am. Do you think it's a good idea to bring your most powerful man to me with him to try and kill me ?", Elijah asked Mateo.
Elijah lifted his fingers and Arnoldo fell to the ground. Elijah bent and reached his level and whispered to his ear.
"Don't try stupid things next time, I might do a lot worse if you come at me like that ", he said as he stood up and dusted his suit, and left.
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"What was that all about ?"_asked Mateo as he offered Arnoldo a hand for him to stand up.
"Nothing I was just trying to figure out how fast he was ", Arnoldo said as he dusted his clothes.
"And what did you find out ?", Mateo asked him.
"That he is too fast you can't attack him even when he is not looking at you he can feel it coming ", said Arnoldo.
"Yeah no shit am glad you figured that out ", said Mateo sarcastically.
He wasn't shocked he expected nothing else from them. They couldn't be killed so what were the chances of successfully attacking them?
According to his math and what he had seen the number was closer to zero than it was to one, which meant that it was impossible.
Elijah had made Mateo look powerless in front of his people. He had tried to be the leader but every time he did something they just had to come along and made him feel like he was doing it all wrong.
Maybe he has done a mistake sending away the vampires from the shelter but the way things had gone was not the way he had expected them to go.
They beat him at his own game.
"We're you going to kill him ?", Edmund asked Elijah as they entered the study.
"Yes ", Elijah said as he sat down in his chair.
"Why you don't do things like those I am the one who does them ?", Edmund asked him.
"Well, they don't seem to take you serious with all the things you said the other days and managed to pull this. They needed to be told who was the boss ", examined Elijah.
"If you killed him then you would have broken the rules ", pointed out Edmund.
"Oooh I know but in this situation, it would have been excused because they started it. The good thing about rules is that once you master them you find acceptable ways to break them", he said grinning.
"Well, brother after all it seemed like Mateo was right. There is a piece of father in all of us ", said Edmund.
"Yeah maybe there is but I don't want to be anything like him. Now if you excuse me I have work to do. I have to calculate the amount of produce we will get this season", said Elijah.
"What plants are you planning on planting ?", Edmund asked him as he took the books and looked at them.
"I haven't figured all of them out but I think we should plant some apple trees. It is doing well in European and with a connection, we can find a market there ", said Elijah.
"Okay, so the land needs to be prepared first. I'll go to town to see if I can find people who are willing to do the job ", said Edmund.
"Okay then ", said Elijah.