And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Stopping with his mouth wide open, Silas gave me a confused look before closing his mouth with a sigh. "I guess I should have."

"Then why didn't you?" I asked, trying to understand why he wouldn't. That was something I could have used to steer me closer in the right direction but instead, he had said nothing and let me float around in unanswered questions. "I guess I didn't think about it, honestly... there is much you still don't understand."

Resting my hand on my forehead, I closed my eyes and breathed through the outburst that desperately wanted to leave me. I wanted to shout at him, scream and curse his name for dragging me around for days and giving me a history lesson instead of telling me but I knew I wouldn't get anywhere acting like that.

"Who did Inanna act like this with before... the people she was with, who were they?"

Glancing at Silas again, I watched him tap his fingers on the table. "I may have been Anna's guard, but I didn't know everything that was going on. I just saw and heard certain things."

I found it hard to believe that Silas didn't know more, considering the fact he had told me so much already. Granted, he could have read a lot of it in books, but I had a feeling everything he told me was first-hand information.

"Okay, then answer me this... how many years has Anna been dead?"

The moment that the question left my lips, Silas froze. He stared at me with such a blank expression I began to wonder if what I said was not in English. After all, he was staring at me like I had grown three heads. "A hundred years ago... three years after Inanna left the realm."

and made his way toward the main door. I wasn't sure why it was his attitude changed but shoving the purple book

and by the

I

more, I barely

stopping him

gritted his teeth with a clenched jaw, he stared down

understand why.

·AH

had no clue what had happened. I did was asked when Anna died. One minute he was

and the next, he

wrong? Why are you acting

glancing back at me. "You just... you remind me so much of her and thinking of the

those last few words that suddenly made me realize why he was so dead set on telling me about Anna, how he knew so much