Companionship, the first rule, little Darcens, is to choose and then hunt.
We don't do chase, leave that for the others.
We don't chase our prey we hunt, our prey must not get away, chasing gives them a possible possibility to do just that.
So you hunt and when finally you get that prey, you tame it. Make sure it doesn't dare to leave... Until it understands it's yours for keeping...you don't let it go...
After you tame it into understanding, she becomes yours for ever.
That was the only way to keep our brides, the family tutors had taught us in the private academy for the Darcen family that our brides needed to be hunted we'd been trained that way to fight to kill and to take what belonged to us. And there were very few things a member of the Darcen family could lack. They owned everything, and by everything , they meant technology, science, domestic relations, security, politics,deals of the underworld, money was not at all even part of the things a Darcen would think of. For them money was just a lackluster factor. The businesses owned by the Darcens were so many and all rounded no member had to fight for more power as they were overfed with it since they could make out the pronunciation of their names.
So, there were very few things a Darcen couldn't have... Very few things they had to take for themselves or in their words hunt themselves. And one of the very few things were their brides or rather their bride's commitment and care and love and all affections positive, for a reason of sorts one definitely being the fact that those women were hunted down and forcefully dragged back to their ice or gold or diamond or whatever rare jewel their castles sits on, those women never seem to give in easy, and so, they had to be tamed.
On very very rare occasions a jewel would be found in their patched landed lives, a woman who is willing to stay, one they had chosen too... However such occasions were almost non existent as whoever that woman would be must be either crazy or an assassin from their numerous enemies, and they had enemies, enmity accumulated from ages of their existence yet those fools just keep in coming although they are always sent running on their butts... Or she could be simply, inexplicably, undoubtedly... Stupid.
Everyone could sense the type of danger that surrounds the Darcens even a toddler could. One of the main reasons why everybody avoided them even their chosen brides tend to run away at the sight of them but they had been used to that and for their brides they loved the childish chase, making them think they probably had a chance to escape and letting them understand they don't, had always been the fun part of a hunt.
But to not only have a rare jewel,but also an extra rare jewel who is not an assassin, a spy or from the other side, who dares to approach you in this case propose to you was a blessing in the Darcen family whoever that male was would probably gather a truck load of pure jealousy at their family meetings...
And Gordon, of all the members of the Darcen's current generation, the king of the underworld who was always accompanied by his twin devil princes, the slayers they were called back at the academy, they were from the main branch of the Darcen family they chose to stay in the dark side, run the branch of the family that dealt with the underworld not because they had pulled the short stick but because as they had said themselves - that place suits them better.
No one wished to stay in the underworld branch! The vile and bloody air that surrounded it made it difficult to find a bride who was willing to be tamed! Who did not wish to find their bride faster huh?! But of course, the team of three gave no mind at all they had blatantly refused the surface branch that run good in the eyes of the people and chosen to stay in the underworld. Even the twin princes had decided to stay in the pits of their branch's hell. They enjoyed the massacre and didn't care if others knew about it. Every Darcen loved the massacre and blood and screams and pain too, however they were too scared their brides would fear them even worse before they got the chance to tame them. Having a bride was the only shot a Darcen had at being cared for, and loved and they had been so starved of it, they craved that affection more than they could handle.
For a Darcen, the most important thing in ones life was to find an affectionate bride for the keeping.
Yes, they were killers murderers if you'd add, unhinged men however they were also boys starved of affection, motherless bastards begotten and unquenched.
However way they had to quench such thirst or feed that hunger was acceptable in the books of the Darcen family.