And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 156: A Pack to Save Lucas

I had never seen my sister as upset as she was, and to be honest I thought she was going to kill Zia before I jumped in to pull her off the poor girl. Perhaps Zia was a wicked pain in the ass and deserved every bit of what she got but I wouldn’t let Cassie be the one to pull that trigger. I wouldn’t let her live with the guilt.

The problem was I hadn’t anticipated the way things end- ed, and as Cassie said she thought Inanna, the head of stu- dents, had something to do with what was wrong with Lucas. I didn’t want to believe it.

“Cassie, you can’t be serious.” I scoffed, shaking my head. Her eyes darted around the room before she gave me a sharp glare and nodded with her head for us to follow her. I wasn’t sure where we were going, but when we stepped outside into the cool afternoon air with no one around us, she let go of a sigh and turned to face us.

“Okay, now that we are away from prying ears, I think Inanna has something to do with what’s wrong with Lucas.”

Glancing at Silas, he seemed just as skeptical as I was. He crossed his arms over his chest and opened and closed his mouth as if trying to formulate words to make sense of all of this. “Cassie, we can’t jump to conclusions like that.”

“Yeah, Cassie,” Trixie drawled as if not believing her, “Silas has a point…”

Cassie groaned, rolling her eyes as she shook her head. “Look, I know it sounds crazy, but I’m telling you… something is definitely going on with that woman.”

“Cassie, that’s just how she is,” Silas replied quickly trying to make my sister see reason. He did have a point. Even when I met her in her office when I first started that was how she came off… as someone a bit odd but who cared.

Frustration grew within my sister’s eyes as she looked at each of us before glancing at Sansa as if searching for at least one of us that would believe her. However, even Sansa seemed skeptical, and I wouldn’t doubt her for feeling that way. Cassie was my sister, and at times I was even skeptical of how she acted.

“I can’t believe you guys don’t believe me-”

“It’s not that I don‘ t,” Silas quickly interjected as he stepped toward Cassie, “we just have no proof, and you can’t go around throwing accusations out like it’s the most obvious thing without having proof to back your claim.”

Proof. That was something that was going to be virtually impossible to get, and even if we did have it, who would we turn it in to? Inanna was the head of the school.

“We can get it,” she said with an excited smile, “we can get proof.”

Tilting my head, I gave out a frustrated groan. “We can’t just assume people to be evil and go on a witch hunt for proof because you have a feeling about something, Cassie.”

come to grips with the fact that Inanna, someone who was well–known and respected

speak highly of her being a criminal

to be negative about every- thing?” she asked me with a disgusted

you know what I

stared at me with a determination in her eyes I had seen so many times growing up, I knew damn well she wasn’t going to let this go. If we didn’t help her, then she would be fine. She would continue with the

courtyard toward our building. She was

Cassie.

matter what they said, I knew what I saw. The connection between Inanna and Lucas wasn’t like a normal teacher–student relationship. She was controlling him, making him dark… and

my friends rushing after me could be heard clearly through the softly blowing wind. Part of me wanted to stop and see what they wanted, but the other part of

my tracks.

You may not want to believe it, but I’m not ly- ing. Something is wrong, and he isn’t acting the way he is be- cause he wants to. It’s like his judgment

he scoffed again. “You’re delusional, Cassie. Lucas rejected you, and you need to let him go. You can’t force someone to be with you and think

words hurt, and after he spoke, Trixie quickly smacked his arm and glared at

with you? Why did you hit me?” He whined as his eyes darted

your sister no matter what has happened in the past, and she is trying to save someone she cares about. Just because you don’t believe in it doesn’t

again, Trixie was sticking up for me when I didn’t know how. It wasn’t like me to be weak and unwilling to stand up for myself, but since

to falter, unwilling to allow tears or any emotions. to fall, even though

but honestly… it had only been because I was scared. Because I was worried my powers would be to much to control, and I would end

mistakes, it wasn’t to late to save Lucas and

isn‘ t the Lucas we knew back home. Something has changed in him, and you saw the darkness in his eyes that day in his room. You

as if searching for the truth in what I was saying. After a moment, it seemed to

have never seen you so determined before, Cassie,” Pol- lux whispered as he glanced over his shoulders to look

wrong going on, and the more I thought about how Inanna acted,

to settle within my brother as he sighed heavily and nodded

had to be honest with myself. I barely knew my way around this place. Which was a