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. 

else, which caused the entire scene in the hallway. Not only

around this place, and that was something I did not

bad,” Silas said 

of guy who would just say shit for no reason. And, in fact, if he was the Playboy kind of guy. Why would he even bother to come here and

asked him as I opened my eyes and stared back into the bluish–green

finally met 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, we didn’t. And then, they saw Lucas act the

point of view. However, if these guys have made  assumptions, why had he not corrected them? Because obviously, they were letting people believe

did 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

I have to deal with the shit Lucas and my brother were putting me through, but on top of that, I had to 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 sleep

to be, and instead, it reminded me so much of high school, so much of the

feet, I shook my head and quickly turned, heading back down the path toward the building we stayed in. The

me if I didn’t have anything nice to  say, it was best not

was on his feet rushing after me, his hand gripping my upper arm as

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

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

You made it very clear the guys here, and probably a lot of the girls, are assuming I’m somebody I’m

had never claimed to be this badass girl people thought I was. I was 18 years old, trying to figure out my life and where I wanted to go.

have a

  the world as if I 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 all through high school.

on it what had happened because it was a situation I couldn’t fix. However, this place turned out not to be the solace I was looking for, and instead, had become just as much a nightmare as where I had

about what I had asked him, and he opened and closed his mouth as if he wanted to say something but

a fool to agree to have dinner with him, but I was  curious to know exactly what it was he was going to do to fix things. Taking him up on this offer was not going to make anything better between Lucas and me. But honestly, after the way Lucas had treated me today, regardless of what he assumed to

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