56 He Shouldnt Have Gotten Greedy (2/2)

There were five covens total on this continent. Two of them had to share the same witch coven and deal with the issue of supply and demand.

The Averills up in Alaska had sole claim to the blood pills made by the Juneau witches. The Venicis and Romanovs were in completely different parts of Canada so they went to separate witch covens for their supply as well.

Dorian had long hated that he had to share resources with the group of vampires he hated most. The Mayhews had been nothing but a bother since before they came to this country.

Their original homes were far too close together; the two groups had lived in the mountains of what was now known as Romania. That many vampires in a single place brought a series of problems no one could solve, such as food supply.

Dorian had argued with Ash's predecessor constantly about who had the rights to the closest human villages to feed on. They had different ideas about how much should be taken as well.

Liuthold Mayhew thought it was better to only use the old and infirm or very young to feed on, rationalizing that they were more likely to get sick and die anyway to raise less suspicion. He was always such a goody-two-shoes.

Then the vampire hunts happened and he had the nerve to blame it the Cromwells' eating habits. Everyone's numbers were severely impacted. Even that old windbag got killed and his son ended up in charge.

Ash was even weaker than Liuthold had been. He couldn't properly cast a single blood spell without assistance! But the laws of inheritance were absolute; if a coven leader had a child, they would take over in the case of death.

Things got messy when there wasn't an heir, which happened often due to the rarity of fae children. Dorian didn't have one so on the off-chance someone was able to kill him there were several vampires who would have to duke it out for the position.

That was something else that bothered him about that worthless coven. In all the time since they left the old country not one vampire child was born to the Cromwells.

The Mayhews had nearly ten! That kind of prosperity was practically unheard of!

The only reason Dorian's coven was so large was because they merged with many small ones as they made their way west back in the 1700s. Technically speaking, a coven was a group of three or more vampires.

All were the scattered remains of ones who had been affected by the hunts. Some were couples with children, which was helpful, but no new ones were born once everything settled down.

A few decades later, witches discovered how to create blood pills and the threat of discovery became much lower. But that didn't change the fact that food was a limited resource that had to be shared or that the vampires the Cromwells were forced to share with had been part of the reason they were driven from their homeland.