slowly growing in strength by using Lilith’s body and making sacrifices, and now she plans on burning the world and ruling it.”
“Not just that, but when she’s strong enough, the evil will no longer need a host and will leave Lilith’s body, killing her…and then she will be unstoppable. We have to kill her before she’s able to do that,” Remi adds sadly.
Atlas leaps to his feet, his fists coming down on the table. “We are not killing my mate!”
“Brother.” I sigh. “It’s not her anymore, you saw her… That isn’t your Lils, or ours. She’s our sister. Do you really think we want to kill her?”
“We will think of another way, any way, we will try it all, do you understand me?” he snarls. Magic surges in the room until it almost chokes us. “You would not kill your mate, do not ask me to.”
Just then, Dabria speaks up. “Yes, tell him, Cassandra.”
Cassandra’s head jerks, but she steps forward. “Stop reading my thoughts. What if they are rude?” she teases. “Atlas…I think Lilith is still in there. When I saw her, she tried to fight through, and she managed it to warn me…” She looks around then. “I think he’s right—we have to try and save her first, but-but if not…”
“We kill her,” Remi finishes, and everyone nods, but the room is filled with pain.
We lost our sister, but now we have a chance to get her back… Will we really lose her again?
“So where do we start?” I ask.
“We have so much to do.” Mishal sighs.
“We need to stop her from raising more dead and keep her powers from growing first. Stop her from ending the world,” Slate muses.
All eyes keep flicking to Atlas, who seems to be growing, his magic nearly lashing us in anger over our suggestion to kill Lilith. Maybe we are better off discussing this later when he’s calmer. For now, it’s enough that we all are here and that we know.
We know we have to do something, even if it means breaking our brother’s heart again.
“So that’s what we’re doing?” Remi questions, leaning into me. “We stop the world from ending… We stop Lilith.”
We all share a nod. “Agreed,” I say, and others join in.
“Well then, we’re going to need weapons, research.” Remi cracks her neck with a grin. “This is going to be a fun hunt.”
We share a smile before looking at the others. Atlas is quiet and staring out the window. “Everyone settle in. We’ll come up with an exact plan later. Today has been a lot for all of us.”
Slowly, everyone files from the room. Mishal stops near me at the door and looks at me with a smile. “I’m glad you finally found someone who made you want to be in your own skin, brother. We missed you,” he murmurs before leaving too.
I glance over at Atlas, and with a sigh, head over. I touch his shoulder. “If we can save her, we will, brother. Have faith.”
“I failed her once, I won’t again,” he growls.
Unsure what else to say, I turn and leave, accepting Remi’s outstretched hand. She leads me upstairs, and once in our room, she flops on the bed. I plop down next to her, pulling her into my arms as I kiss her head.
She reaches up and kisses me softly. “You aren’t half bad, you know.”
“Half bad?” I repeat as I grab her neck, hard, until she groans, her eyes flashing black. “Admit it, you like me, amore. You don’t want to be without me.”
“Nah, it was the dick that did it,” she teases, so I squeeze harder, and she moans breathily. “Fine, I like you.”
“Good.” I kiss her softly. “Because I love you, amore, and I plan on keeping you.”
“You love me?” she asks. “Idiot, I will still kill you—”
“Shut up, don’t make me whip you again,” I order as I kiss her again. “You love me too. I know it.”
“Fine, fine, I love you, happy now?” she snaps as I squeeze her tighter and tip her head back to kiss her, but she flips us and grinds down on my cock, leaning down as she teases my lips.
“Very,” I murmur against her mouth.
“Erm…” A knock sounds on the wall. “Just FYI, the walls are very thin, so if you’re going to have kinky sex, I just thought you might wanna know,” comes Cassandra’s timid voice, making us both laugh.
“Oh, yes, this is going to be fun.” She grins as she licks my lips. “Just