Without saying a word, she swings open the door to reveal a college-aged man blinking questionably at us. His arms are cut, and I assume that he’s killed himself until I see the stab wound on his side. I tilt my head and wonder if he bled out.
“What the fuck did she do to me?” he asks Kas, who has a feral grin on her face.
“Would you mind raising your shirt so we can see your wound?”
“The fuck?”
I arch my eyebrow at him, taking multiple steps forward. My height is always menacing, and I know even new souls can sense my power. As I approach him, he swallows, lifting his shirt and showing me the wound. When I see the gray and black veins protruding from the wound, my mouth opens.
“Who did this to you?”
“Her fucking sister… I can’t remember her name. It’s like an old lady’s name.”
“Thank you for your time; you will be sorted shortly,” Kas informs him as she shuts the door behind us, and we walk back into the hallway.
I go to open my mouth, but Kas shakes her head. “Not here, somewhere private.”
I groan as I touch her sleeve and portal us to the study in my mansion. I’m impatient as I round the desk and sit in my high back chair, pouring whiskey into a glass and taking a sip.
“It can’t be,” I state, and Kas shakes her head.
“I saw the first one’s body in the human realm. It definitely is.”
“But it can only be used by—” I stop my train of thought and glance over at Kas. “How much do you know?”
“You forget how old I am,” she says. I nod my head, remembering when the dagger was forged at my expense. I was being toyed with, I never imagined that the prophecy would come true.
“Her name?” I ask softly, knowing that this is a secret I need Kas to keep. The idea of history repeating itself makes my stomach sink.What if she doesn’t make it to Hell, what if I’m being tricked?
“Her name is Lilith. She’s very pretty in a psychopathic way,” she says, grinning.
I rub my temples. She’s on earth, alive. She could be there for decades, and I’ll just be here waiting.
“Is she young?” I ask, thinking about the college student she murdered.
“Senior in college.”
“You’ve been following her?” I ask, arching an eyebrow.
“You think I’d show you what I found without all the facts?”
“Do you know why she chose them? And so close together?” I shake my head, thinking about the recklessness of it, of getting caught. She can’t come here until she dies; it’s part of the power of the dagger. Even if I wanted to go to Earth and collect her, I couldn’t.
“Definitely think she was fucking the professor.” A growl rumbles low in my throat over this woman I haven’t seen. I can’t help but smirk while I think of the vicious little creature she must be. She killed two men in two days.She’s come back to me stronger, is all I can think.
“Any chance of her getting caught?”
“She’s pretty unsuspecting. Plus, you know how humans love to refuse the idea of anything supernatural. They probably don’t know where to start.”
I groan when I think about what else is possibly on Earth. The dagger has been activated; the person destined to be mine is out there, and I’ve possibly ruined it with my recent actions.
“And anything else to report from Earth?” I ask.
“No Devil spawns as far as I can tell.” I let out a breath. I was hoping that I could create halflings on earth and make demons who were loyal. While I wanted that program to succeed previously, now all I can hope is that it didn’t. There’s something far more precious waiting for me in the human realm currently.
“Good,” I tell her. “Keep an eye on her, on Lilith,” I instruct, and it’s the first time I’ve spoken her name. It tastes sweet on my tongue, and for the first time in a long time, I feel excitement.
Kas clears her throat. “Any word on Michael?” she throws in, always so nervous when it comes to him. I’ve known Kas for far too long, and the one person she fears above all, even me, is Michael.
