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Chapter Ten

Lilith

“I’m up for being kinky with you, honey, but I think having all your friends with us for our first time is a little excessive.” I crinkled my nose, looking at all the faces staring at me. My hands were cuffed behind my back as I sat on a chair in a holding room.

Leon stood against the wall and rolled his eyes at me. Obviously he hadn’t changed his mind about me during our week apart.

“What do you know?” Phillip demanded, sitting across from me.

“We couldn’t have sat around a camp fire or something to talk? I’m not a criminal.”  Not anymore, at least.

“We actually don’t know anything about you, besides your name is Lilith Sage, and you dance at Club V. So I apologize for the cuffs, but you understand the reason for caution.” He gave me a sympathetic smile, and I shrugged.  He had a point.

“And you are married to Leon,” he added for fun, and I winked at my love. Leon stifled a strangled noise and I laughed out loud.

“So, we should get to the point then, so I can take these bad boys with me for later?” I lifted the now opened cuffs up and set them on the table between us. They were easy to get out of, so I didn’t really get the shocked look in their eyes as I wiggled to get comfy in my seat and started speaking.

“Alrighty then! So I’ll start off by telling you guys a little about me. I’m not special folk like you guys. I’m normal. Well, not one hundred percent normal. But I don’t have any super powers.” I smiled and kept going; they all just kept staring at me like they didn’t know how to react.

“I was groomed to be a spy at the ripe age of eleven, and was used for my skills until about 3 years ago, when I decided I didn’t want anyone using me anymore, so I just killed everyone and got my freedom.” I laughed, thinking about that night. The look on the men’s faces, who thought they had control of me when they met their fatal end, was what gave me peace at night.

“Oh, but don’t worry. I don’t kill people anymore. Nope. I just like to dance, and enjoy being my own liberator. YOLO and all that.” I held up a peace sign to add the extra sign of innocence between us.

“What the fuck? Are you kidding me right now? I married a friggin’ assassin?” Leon ran his hands down his face.

“Ew. Assassin is such a crude word. I preferred spy goddess divine.” I nodded at the correction of my old title.

“Back to Emanuel. What do you know?” Phillip ignored Leon and all the alarmed vibes coming from everyone behind him.

“He’s been scouting all the baddies, looking for people with powers. He’s found a few, but wants more of an army type of number. Not just a basketball team.” There wasn’t any indication if they knew that information or not but I kept on going. I was ready to be done with this conversation and move on to better things on my itinerary—like getting that look of panic off Leon’s face.

“Since you guys blew up his old base, he had to move it. I’ve only had a week to look around while figuring out what you guys were up to, but it seems he has taken to the water for his new secret lair.”

Phillip and the young, punk-looking teenager looked at each other, and the expressions on their face told me something was clicking in their heads, with the information I’d brought. I’d made sense to them. Of course I did; I knew what I was talking about.

“So, we all good here?” I smiled, and Leon looked like he was going to puke. I wanted to hurry up and take care of him.

Phillip looked around the room at everyone else, seeing if there was anything they wanted to ask me.

“Give me your hand?” The blonde with the sexy birthmark walked over and held her hand out to me.

“Lilith Sage. Pleasure to meet ya.” I placed mine in hers for a quick shake, but then she held on for a few beats longer than what felt appropriate. Her eyes stared at me with curiosity, and it made me a little uncomfortable.

“Honey, you know I’m married, right?” I gestured toward Leon, and she seemed to have snapped out of it. The look in her eyes now though was not what I was expecting, and one I didn’t want to see. Ever.

Pity.

“Someone went digging and found some skeletons, didn’t they?” I probed.

“I’m an empath, and can feel emotions,” she said softly, and more than anything I wanted her to stop giving me the sad eyes.

“Well, I bet you can tell how much I want to talk to my honey bun over there, so if that’s all you need from me, I think we are done here.” I rose, and the tall one that had cut off his man bun stepped closer to the empath, ready to interfere should I attack. As if. Retired spy goddess divine, remember?

“I do have something else to ask you.” Phillip stood as well, and looked at me with complete confidence in his eyes. Interesting.

“I want to offer you a spot in the Hero Society. Not to be used, but to help people of your own free will.”  I laughed and looked at him with a big smile on my face. The rest of the crew looked at him in surprise, but none opposed his decision. They trusted him completely.