“Not yet.”
“What?”
“You know how this goes, Jessie. Interrogation, then torture, then murder.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,”
We come to the first cell, the one Lilith’s in, and she’ssinging what sounds like a nursery rhyme. That sends a shiver down my spine. Fucking creepy bitch.
“Oh, hello, dear.” She eyes Kelsey with an eerie, bright smile. She looks her up and down, assessing her. What is her obsession with Kels?
“Don’t call me that,” She grits out through clenched teeth.
“You’re so much like your mother,” She laughs.
“You don’t know my mother.” The amusement that flashes across Lilith’s face at that statement doesn’t go unnoticed.
“Oh, but I do.”
“Enough!” I growl. “Tell me what you know.”
She makes a tsking sound, then looks around aimlessly as if looking for something. “I suppose you want to know many things. Which would you like first?”
She knows what she’s doing. Leaving it up to me to ask the questions, in hopes I’ll forget something and she’ll be dead before I remember.
“What do you want from her?” I ask, nodding towards Kelsey.
She smirks, “Ahh, I see. Those letters your daddy left you didn’t say?”
How the fuck does she know about the letters? A crucial puzzle piece is missing, and I’m going to figure it out. Kelsey takes a step back from the bars.
“Listen here bitch.” Jessie runs up, gripping the bars, “You give it all up now, or I’ll gladly make your death as slow and painful as possible!” She screams, spit flying.
I grab her around the waist pulling her back. The last thing we need is to get Lilith pissed off and silent again.
“Lucius and I made an agreement twenty-one years ago.” Her eyes bounce from Kelsey’s to mine. Twenty-one? That’s how old… “He left the society to be a father, and I continued to work. I didn’t have time for a baby.”
“No,” Kelsey breathes. I keep my eyes trained on Lilith.
“If I had it my way, you wouldn’t have been born.” She rolls her eyes at Kelsey’s quiet sobs, and I’m thankful there are bars separating us, or Lilith’s neck would be snapped already.
“After you reached adulthood, I wanted to see you. Lucius denied, so I took it into my own hands.”
“What makes you think you had a right to see the child you wanted dead?” Jessie snaps.
Lilith ignores her and resumes, “Lucius left on a contract. He was paid as long as he cared for you and left me out of it, but as I got older, I realized I had made a mistake and was jealous of Linda.” Lilith speaks her name with disgust.
“If you wanted a relationship with her, then why did you sell her to be raped?”
“She needs to learn what a woman’s body was made for.”
I pull the cell key from my pocket and sling open the door. The sound reverberates through the cellar. I wrap my hand around her throat, my fingers digging into her windpipe, “You speak of that woman like that again, and I’llcut your guts out and feed them to you before you take your last breath.”
She smiles up at me as her lips turn blue. I’m convinced this evil bitch is already dead. She’s a demon that’s possessed another woman’s body. I shove her head back, and she coughs, gasping for air.
“He’ll kill all of you,” She chokes out.
My patience is wearing thin. I punch the brick wall and feel my skin split along the knuckles.Shit. I look over at Kelsey, finding Jessie standing in front of her, saying something I can’t hear.
