LILITH’S POVI follow Ivan down to the basement immediately after.It’s humid and thick with perspiration and a damn awful rotting smell to back it up. I assume it’s due to years on negligence.It’s a new building Kain hadn’t bothered to pay attention to until the fire had forced an emergency visit that is starting to look permanent.Even I don’t have a room yet, though I’m starting to think Kain made it that way on purpose.We walk down a dark path lit by a few flames torches, dodging the thick mesh of webs hanging about.I silently pray to myself that we run into any one on this visit.The last thing I need is a heart attack down here or letting anyone else discover my fear of spiders. Thankfully, we don’t until we reach her cell.Dirty and grimy, with lack of sunlight. It’s worse than the cells in the other place, a part of me feels a bit of pity.She looks up once we stop right in front of her, letting me see her tired eyes and sunken features.“Lilith?” she mutters my name tiredl
LILITH’S POVKain towers over me and… Ivan — frankly the both of us, with dead emotionless eyes. The usual expression but this time, I’m slightly more nervous than ever.If he ruins my plans, I’d have to opt to flirting with sweaty men who mostly always want something out of anything they give.Ivan, on the other hand, reverts to this annoyed statue behind me. Standing tall and firm in the presence of his Alpha while suppressing the desire to glare holes into my head.“Kain.” I smile sweetly, putting on enough of my charm.He raises a brow.“How are you? You look very dashing this morning.” I begin as though I hadn’t woken up while he was in the middle of getting dressed hours ago.He says nothing, being typical Kain with eyes telling me to get straight to the point while wondering what is up with me.His eyes briefly move to Ivan standing behind me, sporting a very brief frown, which he disguises as his usual resting-bitch face, all before he finally responds.“You don’t have to do a
LILITH’S POVBright and early the next morning, I wake up seconds after Kain walks out the door, as early as 5am.The man doesn’t sleep, I’ve long since realized.I begin preparing for the eventful day, taking a long hot shower before slipping into something cute yet appropriate for today.I end up settling for a grey tube top and some shorts, packing my hair away from my face and some sneakers to add to my boss girl vibe.I will admit, as much as the main purpose for this is solely for the mission, I get a thrill out of the thought of finally focusing my mind on something else. Getting to train again as well.Toss bodies around and improving my skills up to a point that I might just be able to go toe to toe with Kain again whenever I challenge him for a rematch.Frankly, I’m so excited that I’m thirty minutes earlier than everyone and by the time I arrive, the circle is empty.I tremble a bit from the cool breeze that passes. It’s way early in the morning and the sun is just startin
“What the hell?!” I yell at her face.She smiles evilly shrugging her shoulders in an even more annoying way.“Kain thought it would be nice if I got a little more exercise than I do, just to keep this lovely shape going.” She gives a brief show of her curvy hips winking at Fred that just stares a bit too long with his mouth open.Kain did this?“Since when were you so interested in fighting, Yvonne? You do know you’re going to have to break a nail or two.”“Oh my goodness Lilith, is that what you’re concerned about? Don’t worry I’ll ask Ivan to go easy on you so you don’t break yours, although, saving those nails won’t make your hands seem less manly.” She throws a jab at me giggling to herself in the end.I fume instantly taking a step forward towards her but Ivan grabs at my arm.When I turn to give him shit for stopping me he shakes his hand, eyes begging me to just let it slide.Darn it.Fuck this entire situation.“Well, since you’re here, you won’t mind sparring with me right Y
LILITH’S POVWe take a small detour to the new library, which, according to Kain, has just been finally put in place.The books were luckily saved by the fire apparently. The number of staff dedicated in keeping the knowledge and history alive evacuated everything as soon as the explosions started.Misplaced priorities there, but profitable for me in the end. We enter into the large hall space with almost a hundred shelves of books with rich history and information, the jackpot on every possible thing I’d ever want to find is definitely here.I move to the first shelf I see, picking up a bright red book that catches my eyes. It is an arithmetic book that seems centuries old, which is pretty cool.“You have your own library asides the main one. I didn’t know you fancied books.” I say, tracing its edges and taking in every detail of the stitching used.“I don’t waste my time reading books and I haven’t touched most of this.” He confesses casually while watching me look round and admire
LILITH’S POVHis obnoxious laughter and constant snorting overshadows every other source of sound and draws all eyes and attention to our table and especially to me, covered in my well anticipated lunch.I take in deep and calculated breaths to calm myself. He’s not worth the stress of exploding in front of everyone and his tactics at bullying are shallow.“You look a little prettier.” He adds again, scooping a bit of the stain on my bosom and tasting it on his tongue. “And sweeter too.”From the corner of my eyes, I spot Ivan getting up all of a sudden raging in anger and stomping over to our table, most likely to share his fists with his bastard.I raise my palm at him when our eyes meet, shaking my head as a sign that he shouldn’t intervene. He looks annoyed but he holds himself back respectfully.In the middle of his laughter, I lift the plate off my thigh and stand up, now I’m nowhere near this motherfucker’s height but I will not be intimidated by him.“Shut up.” I say coldly.H
LILITH’S POVI sit on the hard floors of the library room again, the day after I’ve been given permission to enter here at will, with my back leaning against the first book shelf I had begun with.It’s a different day and almost 3 hours have passed on the same bookshelf but there’s been no progress.I’m starting to doubt if I can do go through every single shelf in this room. There might be up to a million books in here.I sigh, falling and laying my back against the floors, staring at the white ceiling in front of me.I’m trying not to panic but there’s still no clue, and the time left before Jonah gets sick again or Arden grows impatient and pays a visit draws closer.And there’s still the plan to get the information I need from the guards just in case all this doesn’t work out.I’m running out of ideas faster than I want to.I close my eyes now, taking deep calming breaths. Instead of falling into a pit of anxiety and despair of my own making, I decide to distract myself.Getting l
LILITH’S POV:I finally find where I stashed my clothing and put it on as fast as I can before Kain catches up to me.If he even feels an ounce of remorse for what he was just about to do.I have to face the facts at this point, he still sees me as an object to own as his.It infuriates me with how cool he’s being despite the fact that he did just try something horrible, but I decide not to take it anymore.The walk back to the mansion is not as far as I thought. Stepping into the main compound, the first person I spot is Fred.He waves over to me enthusiastically, jogging over.I sigh, feeling overwhelmed by the conversation we’re going to have already.“Miss Lilith.” He says, bowing a bit in greeting once he’s close enough.Wide eyes stare at me with adoration as well.“Hey, Fred.” I say, trying to sound half as enthusiastic as he does but my mood’s already shit.“You’re just the person I was looking for. The time for the get-together was moved to this afternoon.”Right, there’s sti