All Chapters of Panic Room: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Chapter 1 - HomeLilithThe cold air kissed my skin, leaving behind the promise of winter in the breeze. I took a deep breath and enjoyed this final moment of solitude as the train whistled behind me. Ringing out the last call before it left the station for the evening. My last chance to turn back and return to the safety of my dorm room and the piles of assignments I had to leave behind to come here. 'No, Lilith, your parents need you. It would be selfish to go home now.' That little nagging voice in my head shouted as it tried to reason with me. I opened my eyes, taking in the empty little station of Teveil. My hometown, where I had spent my whole life trying to escape, only to wind up back here only a few months after leaving because my sister had been murdered. Of course, I was sad my sister was gone, upset that someone had ripped her out of our lives, but at the same time, she had it coming. Was that a horrible thing to think?'Yes, horrible and not okay,' The voice reminded

Chapter 3 - Vengeance Lucifer I didn't believe in coincidences, or at least not until now. Because as I stared down at the woman before me, her skin so pale it looked like snow, and her long black hair so dark that it made her emerald eyes shine like jewels. I got a sense of Deja vu. Like I was staring down at the one woman I had ever been so foolish to love. Well, as much as a demon could come close to loving another anyways. A woman who wreaked havoc in the underworld and destroyed my relationship with all six of my brothers. A relationship we have spent centuries rebuilding because of her, might I add.After decades of fighting and finally agreeing to reconnect, it was almost fitting that this woman who looked exactly like Lilith and even shared the same name as her walked back into our lives. Lilith, the once Queen of the underworld. A monster in all sense of the word, the one woman so powerful she brought my brothers and me to our knees in awe. And drove us all against each o

Chapter 5 - Panic RoomLilith"You can't be serious. Even on the day, we're supposed to be mourning the loss of your sister, you insist on going out to party. You haven't changed at all." My mother cried out as she took in my short black dress, fishnet stockings, and black doc martens. I had even curled my hair and put on a bit of makeup, not too much because it wasn't me, but enough to please Kylie. I planned to tell them I was tired and going to bed early, but that was quickly derailed when my mom walked into my room to check in on me. Instead of finding me in bed sleeping, she caught me with one leg out the window dawned in my jacket and shoes. It was sad that I, a twenty-one-year-old woman, had to sneak out of her parent's house like a sixteen-year-old sneaking off to see her boyfriend. Not that I ever did that; the boys here only wanted one thing from me: information on how to get with my sister. "I don't see how me going out at this hour means that I didn't mourn Eve. I have

Chapter 7 - PridePerseus I had already seen Lilith once today when Lucifer had stopped her on the sidewalk, too curious for his own good to keep his distance from such a beautiful and familiar face; Lilith's beauty was what had enraptured us the first time we came across the goddess of chaos and destruction. But this Lilith looked even more, captivating up close than the Lilith we once knew. She was almost a spitting image of the snake who almost ruined me. If it weren't for the missing beauty mark on her upper lip, I would have thought it was Lilith herself. Though we all knew it wasn't possible, not after what we did to her once Lucifer ripped out her heart all those centuries ago, it still stuck a cord to see this woman before me. Ripping out female hearts had actually become Lucifer's preferred method of killing when he was through with one of his play toys. Lucifer, who always seemed to lust after emotionally unavailable females, was a savage son of a bitch compared to the r

Chapter 9 - Twilight Zone LilithSamuel reached out for my wrist, gripping it tightly so he didn't lose me to the crowd that swarmed us when we exited the tunnel leading out of the room of Pride. I didn't fight him as he weaved us through the sweat-covered bodies; all seemed lost to the music. I hadn't noticed it before, but as I took in the expressions of the people we passed, many of them looked like they were seconds away from passing out from exhaustion. Their skin was so pale, and their movements were sluggish. I swore I saw blood staining one woman's toes as she danced, which could only have happened if she had been stuck in her high heels for days without rest. A body bumped into me, and I was forced to look away from the strange people, moving around the person who was clearly so lost in whatever drugs or alcohol they had been consuming to even notice our encounter. "Where's Kylie?" I shouted over the music. Nothing sounded the same as it did before my head hurt, and I co