And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 0350

"What is the meaning of this?" Silas snarled as he stepped forth, buttoning his pants, still shirtless and without shoes. He wasn't pleased by her tone, and as he stepped in front of me, her eyes flashed slightly gold. "What are you doing flying around with her," she snapped in a low tone, "you know that isn't allowed."

Allowed? Were we supposed to have gotten permission?

"If you don't recall, Inanna, you have no authority over me."

It was clear as day that Silas and Inanna didn't like each other, and as her eyes turned to me, she gave me a sickly sweet grin as she raised a brow crossing her arms over her chest. "No, but I do over her."

"Say what-" I muttered softly as Silas held out an arm holding me back to which I clung. Tension was high, and the woman I had seen before around school didn't seem like the same woman in front of me now. "She is still a student at our school and, therefore, under my control and protection."

my head in disbelief as laughter left my lips. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful, but as both of them

didn't like the fact I spoke to her the way I did as her smile fell, and she narrowed her gaze. Again, I wasn't trying to be disrespectful, but for her to speak about me as she had, as if I was still a child, was uncalled for.

gotten the gist of it,

his face, he turned his gaze from me back to Inanna and shrugged his shoulders. He wasn't obviously going to argue with

Silas.

to come out here like she had, and from how Silas looked at her when she left,

ourselves. Reaching down, he picked up his shirt and continued getting dressed, a sense

Silas taking me up in the sky. None of it felt right, and yet as he pulled his shirt on and slowly began to do the buttons, I

avoided in

before turning slowly to face me. I wasn't sure what I was doing, but something

is it that you're not