And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 148: Words with Silas 

Cassie. 

I hadn’t expected to run into Silas on the way home, but now that I was faced with him, I was actually pleased. I had allowed myself to face a moment of weakness by letting my heart play tricks on my mind. To think the mate thing was actually possible with Lucas was a stupid decision to begin  with. 

Pulling from Silas, I quickly wiped away my tears and pushed a smile on my face. 

“God, I feel completely stupid,” I whispered as I gazed up  into his hazel eyes, “uh–so how are you?” 

Silas gazed down at me, giving a small chuckle as he ‘reached up, rubbing the back of his neck as if hesitant to speak. “I’m okay. I actually was coming to see you, but I can. see that whatever I had to say can wait… what’s going on? Why are you crying?” 

He was coming to see me? The thought was sweet, but I wasn’t sure why he would have been going out of his way to see me. “Uh, nothing. I’m not sad, more angry than anything.” 

“Angry about what?” 

Shrugging my shoulders, I turned and made my way toward a small bench that sat off the edge of the sidewalk. “Men–in more precise measures, Lucas. It’s all stupid and not important, honestly.” 

Silas followed my movements as he came to sit next to me. He didn’t bother to push for more information and instead nudged my shoulder with his own, causing me to smile. 

“Well, the topic of men was the reason why I was coming to see you. I wasn’t sure if your brother had spoken with you yet, but I wanted to explain myself.” 

Confusion filled me as I furrowed my brow, staring at him, trying to figure out what exactly he was talking about. Taking a moment, I thought back to when my brother  confronted me in the hallway at the school, and suddenly what he had said dawned on me.  that was 

“So when he said the guys were talking about me, you?” The sheepish grin that crossed Silas’s face at my question let me know it was exactly what he was talking about. 

in the hallway. Not only that, but the word had  gotten out, leading to Lucas

quickly around this place,

thought. I don’t know what your brother told you, but I promise… Nothing was bad,” Silas said  quickly, causing me to halt and what I was going to say 

And, in fact, if he was the Playboy kind of guy.

I asked him as I opened my eyes and stared back into

mine once again. “A few of the guys saw us talking the other night, and because of it, they assumed that we were hooking up, which of course,

if these guys have made  assumptions, why had he not corrected

you correct them to prevent them from · spreading these ridiculous rumors over something that didn’t even happen?” Silas gave me a meek smile, and that smile let me know he hadn’t entirely told them the truth,

deal with everything else in my life constantly spiraling  out of control. And now this issues with Silas because  people seem to think I’m a girl who likes to

into the person we were meant to be, and instead, it reminded me so much of high school, so much of

head and quickly turned, heading back down the path toward the building we stayed in. The last thing I wanted to do was say something mean to

didn’t have anything nice to  say, it was best not to say anything at all. So that was

because as soon as I started  heading down the sidewalk, he was on his feet rushing after me, his hand gripping my upper arm as he stopped me in my tracks and turned me to

I want to talk to you about this. In fact, there’s a

tell him to go fuck himself and never put his hands on me again, part of me couldn’t help but want to give him that chance to explain

happened, Silas? What else is there that we need to discuss? You made it very clear the guys here, and probably a lot of

this badass girl people thought I was. I was 18 years old, trying to figure out my life and

have a rebellious nature? Absolutely.

had my shit together. What I wanted was to  be able to come here and heal from everything that had happened, including losing Melissa, the woman I had loved

the back of my mind, not trying to dwell on it what had happened because it was a situation I couldn’t fix. However, this place turned out

what I had asked him, and he opened and closed his mouth as if he wanted to say something but wasn’t sure. “Will you please just have dinner

do to fix things. Taking him up on this offer was not going to make anything better between Lucas and me. But

my shoulders, gesturing with my hand that yes, I would. A bright white. smile crept across Silas’s face at my acknowledgment to go to dinner with him.