"Miss Hayes!"
The reception stood up when Lilith showed up at the door.
"Hello." Lilith said, remembering how she lied and basically ran out of the door last time she was here.
Guess the horrified shocking look on the reception's face made sense.
"Hello...Elena" Lilith read out the receptionist's name tag, "Is...hmmm, Mr. Gaomond in? He's not answering my calls, so I'm not sure if this is the place I should come, or..."
"Yes, Mr. Gaomond is in his office." Elena nodded, "But--"
Lilith didn't hear what was behind the "but" because she was already in the elevator.
In her defense, Elena didn't really try to stop her either, or Lilith didn't have to listen to Edmund's furious yelling again--
"I said to stop all the investigations, didn't you hear that?!" Edmund's voice roared through the hallway even before Lilith could get closer to his office.
Silence came as Lilith hesitated outside of the door. Buster said somet
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"You got The Shadow out of your coven's protection pretty fast." Damon sneered at Ann with a smirk. "I visit the archbishop all the time, he trusts me." Ann handed over the wand to Damon, "Just do your thing and get the Dragon Eye out of there." Damon didn't take the wand but just stared at Ann with that annoying smirk. "You think it's a fake?" Ann frowned at Damon, "Why would I even lie to you?" "I don't know." Damon shrugged indifferently, "On the top of my head I would say...you want my Darkhole without risking anything?" Ann pursed her lips. "It's the coven's sacred wand," Damon shook his head at Ann with a sneer, "How innocent do you take me to use such a lame lie?" Ann squinted her eyes at Damon: "How would you know it's a fake if you are not a wizard?" "Because," Damon sat down with a polite smile on his face, "I AM the Darkhole." Ann opened her eyes wild in shock. "I told you, the evil witch cons
Sitting in his chair, Edmund looked outside the window with a glass in his hand. He had been like that for the whole day. "You could call her, boss." Buster forced his words out of his mouth with his teeth clenched together out of pain -- He had a knife held in one of his hands, and the tip of the knife pierced through the other, nailing his hand to the door of the office. "Or, you can just go and get me my flight ticket?" Edmund sounded calm as if he didn't notice that Buster was in pain. Buster took a deep breath, trying hard to fight the pain: "I won't get you a flight ticket until you make the rejection, boss." "So your plan is to nail yourself on my door?" With a soft voice, Edmund said coldly, "I don't take threats, you know that, Buster." Blood was dripping down the door, and from the look of the blood pool on the floor, Buster had been nailed there for a while now. "I'm not threatening you, boss." Buster panted,
"Status, Buster." Edmund's rough voice came through the mic. "No one has yet to approach the bait, boss." Buster mumbled with the telescope pressed on his left eye tight. "And the man who was there when I set the bait?" "Still there, boss, standing by the well. I think he's waiting for someone." Buster moved his stiff body slightly -- He had been groveling on the rooftop of a nearby building for hours, even longer than the man by the old stone well in the backyard of the old chapel, watching the whole area closely. Edmund was hiding across the street from the chapel, waiting in the bush. He couldn't let whoever blackmailed him get away with his blood, but he couldn't let anything happen to Lilith either. His phone lit up but no sound rose. Edmund put the phone call through: "Cora, talk to me." "No sign of forcefully breaking in here at Miss Hayes's house, boss." Cora reported speedily, "If anyone broke in, it was clean.
"What are you doing?" Damon asked with fear written all over his voice. "You told me you needed me to free your soul because it's stuck in dark magic, burning in hellfire." Said Ann coldly. "It's true!" Damon shouted with disbelief in his eyes, panicking. "Yet you just said you are not the vessel, the orb in your hand is." Ann squinted her eyes at Damon suspiciously, "So which one is it?!" "You really are paranoia!" Damon let out a light laugh, "I--" "Don't test me!" Ann burst out angrily. "What I said was true!" Damon put away the smile fast, "I told you! Half of my soul is trapped! Here, in this orb!" Ann glared at Damon suspiciously still. "This orb can absorb souls," Damon explained fast, "In this orb contains the eternally burning hellfire and half of my soul. Honest!" "You want me to use it." Said Ann coldly, "Are you trying to trap my soul in this orb?!" A glimpse of shock slid through Damon's eye
The bullet stopped right in front of Ann's eyes. "Ann!" Jacob shouted as he jumped out of the bush, "I've got you!" Damon made another shot, and then another even though he knew he had failed -- a Mage was nearby helping Ann! Several shots were fired, but none made their way through Ann. "Go to hell!" Damon shouted as he suddenly jumped at Ann, and they fell to the ground as a beam of light went through Damon's body. "Ann! Are you alright?!" Jacob ran out of the bush, shouting as he dragged Damon's body off Ann. Ann was not answering. "What's going on?!" Jacob shook Ann's body frantically, "I couldn't hear you in the bush. Thank god I stopped the bullet in time!" She just sat there with a blank look on her face as if she just lost her soul. But her eyes were fixed on Damon, who was now bleeding heavily from the huge hole on his stomach. "Help me..." Damon's faint voice rose as he tried hard to talk, "Annie...hel
"Was it Lilith?!" Jacob demanded, shouting with fury in his eyes, "She should have wakened the wand on the night of the meeting if she showed up!""I don't think so!" Ann lied, shouting back at Jacob, "She never even touched the wand. She already crashed her car when I got there! But then the wand lit up in my hand! So you tell me!"Except for the fact that it was Ann who crashed the car, and the wand tried to fly to Lilith, the rest of her words were somewhat true.Ann cried longer than usual before Jacob turned and took Ann into his arms."You will always have a special place in my heart, Ann." Jacob whispered into Ann's ear with a sigh, "So please don't lie to me again.""I..." Ann sobbed, "I didn't want to make you choose between me and Lilith..."Ann was afraid that Jacob would choose Lilith."Lilith never even cared about being a witch, she would have given the wand to you if you have asked." Said Jacob in a soft tone, "Silly gi
"Who are you?!" Jacob gasped, staring at Edmund, confused. "Edmund Gaomond, I presume?" Ann curved her lips at Edmund, charming and alluring. Surprised at how Ann acted as if she had never met him, Edmund didn't show his suspicion but instead bowed as it was his first time meeting Ann: "At your service, madam. I'm actually here for him." He hinted at Damon's lifeless body. "Sorry about that," Ann glanced at the dead body on the ground, "But I have paid for the suitcase so... Do you think you can leave it to me?" "Are you even aware of what it is that you purchased?" Asked Edmund with that polite smile. "He just promised me that it would waken the wand." Ann shook her head genuinely, "It's very important to our coven, sir, the fate of our kind depends on it!" "What wand?" Edmund's eyes fell on the wand in Ann's hand. "Sorry, but I cannot let you in on the coven's secret, sir." Ann bowed at Edmund before she took a step c
"You sure we don't have to contact Miss Hayes, boss?" Buster asked hesitately. "Since when are my orders not certain, Buster?" Edmund put on his suit and stretched its hem. "You just saved her life, boss," Buster sighed as he handed Edmund a black tie, "AGAIN. It would be a good chance to--" "She didn't care about it last time, why would she care this time?" Edmund took the tie with a poker face, "Besides, she wasn't even in danger this time, the abductor got it wrong." "Yes, but you took a huge risk for her!" Buster sighed at his boss's stubborness-- Edmund was obviously suffering from being away from Lilith, but he would rather take blood out of his own heart than go and try talk to her. How was that gonna get her back?! "I'm more interested in the matter at hand right now." Edmund pushed the tie high up, "Who's he?" Buster chose to answer the first half of Edmund's words: "Are you sure you are not looking into this m