“It’s like my magic can’t help but to come out sometimes, and it gets me in trouble.”
“Your mom doesn’t help you?”
“Not really.” She shrugs, tugging on her backpack straps.
“Do you have anyone?”
She shakes her head and sighs. “My cousin Stevie, but she lives a few hours away.”
I hum and nod my head. “We all need allies. You’ve got to find someone who has your back.” I sigh, thinking about how Diana and I always had each other’s back. Then I feel a little melancholy when I think about Kas and how much she has taken care of me as of late.
“Willyouhave my back?”
I blink at the little girl a few times before I smile for the first time in a long time. “Yeah, I’ll have your back.”
“What’s your name anyway?”
I’m not sure why I lie. “Lily,” I tell her, and she smiles.
“So, got any ideas on how I can get back at those girls?” she asks, and when I look down at the little half-demon, half-witch, I can’t help but feel like I found what I was looking for when I portaled to Hallowsdeep.
“Oh yeah, I’ve got ideas,” I say with a smirk. I spend the rest of the day with Blair, and I hate to admit it, but it’s the best I’ve felt in weeks.
I’m ready to portal back home, but instead, I meander down Main Street of Hallowsdeep. This town is like a beacon for the supernatural, and my gut instinct tells me that what—whom—I’m searching for will be in this town.
While Blair was a great distraction for me today, I’m still consumed by vengeance. I need someone to pay for what happened to Diana. And selfishly, what happened to me too. I want to be able to live my immortal life, but I can’t do that until I feel like justice has been served for my sister.
I’ve thought about going back to Hell, hearing what Lucifer has to say. I know it’s not as simple as him sending me away. I know he has to maintain a certain image in front of his followers. But it doesn’t mean that he didn’t hurt me.Is it too much to ask to be put first?He was just telling me how he was going to give me the world, and then the first moment he had to prove to me how much I meant to him, he failed.
It’s strange how disappointing some moments in your life can feel.
I’m kicking a rock behind the post office when a voice startles me.
“Diana?”
I gasp, not having heard her name out loud from someone else’s mouth in what feels like an eternity. The man is beautiful with dark hair and olive-toned skin. It’s almost a familiar feeling that washes over me when he approaches me.
“Diana?" he tilts his head as he looks at me, his brows furrowing. When he’s close enough, I can sense that he’s an angel.
He shakes his head. “My mistake, I thought you were someone else.”
“You knew my sister?” I ask.
He nods. “She hasn’t returned, we’ve all been worried.”
“Do you know why she left?”
“No, but I’ve been suspicious.”
I step closer to him, and he’s given me no indication that he knows what I am. “I… I think she was going to tell me something.”
“You’re Lilith?”
I can’t help but smile.Diana spoke about me in Heaven?“I am.”
“She told me she had a brave twin sister. That you had… um, ended up in a different place.”
I rub my arm and nod. “Is that a problem for you?” I ask him, wondering if angels automatically hate all demons. Unfortunately, I only got a taste of the dynamic between angels and demons, not the whole picture.
