"She could have killed you. Do you still want to talk to her? Because she doesn't seem interested." Luna was throwing her hands around. "She's crazy."

"I have to agree with Luna on this one. Nyx spoke. "That woman is not Lyssa."

"And what do you want to do?" I said between my teeth. "Kill her?" I snorted.

"We should at least consider it." Luna shrugged.

"And she's the crazy one, huh?" Everything about this situation is crazy.

"Okay, we don't have to kill her right away." Nyx approached the table. "We just have to make sure she doesn't do anything."

"You want to tie her up and interrogate her? Is that your plan?" Luna raised an eyebrow.

"Actually, yes. It's better than shooting her between the eyes. Even if she deserved it."

"And how are you going to get her? Because I have a feeling she won't just give up."

"I know the way. And I'm going to enjoy it." Nyx smiled. "It's going to be fun."

I already don't like this plan.

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So maybe it's not the worst plan.

At least no one gets hurt with it, unless something goes wrong.

"She's here." Luna spoke, standing by the window in the living room. "Let's go." She moved towards the exit and Nyx followed her.

I took my cell phone out of my pocket and sent a message that we were ready.

I walked behind Luna and Nyx, and when I opened the front door Lyssa was standing in the middle of the driveway with her hands in the pockets of her leather jacket.

She looked around as if she was waiting for someone to jump out at her.

"Ready?" Luna whispered next to me.

"Now or never, right?" I exhaled heavily and walked a little closer, but I left a space between us a few meters wide. "Is this what you wanted?" I gestured to Nyx and Luna a few steps behind me.

"I knew you'd be smart. Although I hoped not. It would be fun." She smiled and looked me over from head to toe.

"Why do you even want them?"

"You don't think that's any of my business?" She raised an eyebrow as if I had insulted her.

"I think I have a right to know."

She leaned slightly to the side to look at them behind me and returned her gaze to me. "Which one are you sleeping with?"

I almost choked at her words. "What?"

"Is that such a hard question?" She laughed. "I'd say it's easy. Blonde?" She looked behind me again. "No. I have a feeling you prefer the crazy ones." She shrugged.

"You still haven't answered me."

"And I don't even plan to. Now... why won't you be so nice and help me load them into the car. The trunk would be best."

"What if I say no?" I reached down to my belt and pulled back the jacket that covered the gun.

"Really?" She laughed amusedly. "I don't have to tell you why this is a bad idea." She took a few steps towards me, leaving a space of one meter between us.

"You think you can come here and threaten me? This is my territory, not yours." I raised my hand in the air and within seconds, fifteen of my men were standing around us with their hands on their weapons.

"Really?" She slowly turned around and scanned the circle of people around us. "That's all you got?"

"It's up to you whether it goes easy or hard way."

"Huh." She snorted and walked even closer to me. "I was going to say the same thing."

She reached her hand towards me, and before I could catch it, she stole the gun from my belt and pointed it directly at my face.

I heard fifteen guns that were loaded at that moment and began to aim at us.

"Don't you dare shoot!" I raised my voice.

"Are you that afraid of being hit?" She tilted her head to the side.

No. I'm afraid they'll hit her.

"It could have been easy. You give them to me and it's over. I'll disappear and you'll never hear from me again. Why couldn't you cooperate?" She narrowed her eyes as if trying to read my mind. "Tell your men to put down their weapons or their boss will catch a bullet between eyes."

I slowly turned my head to my bodyguard and nodded. They all put down their guns.

Lyssa walked closer to me until I could feel her breath on my skin. "I lied." She whispered.

She pulled back and aimed at my face, pulling the trigger on my gun, but no bullet went off. "You were saying?"

She looked at the gun in confusion until it dawned on her that there were no bullets in it. But it was already too late. Nyx shot from behind her, hitting her with a sleeper bullet right in the back.

Lyssa jerked forward slightly and I caught her before she fell unconscious to the ground. "I got you." I said even though she couldn't hear me anymore.

"So this was fun." Nyx spoke. "Now get her down there before that psychopath wakes up."



Maybe I underestimated them.

They are not as incompetent as I thought. My hands tied behind my back will be proof of that.

This situation is slightly annoying.

It should have been easy. Come, take the two women, interrogate them and kill them.

But something went really wrong somewhere.

"Hello! Idiots!" I shouted when I was more conscious.

I have no idea what put me to sleep, but it worked too well. I should ask them for the recipe.

"I'm already up!" No answer.

I looked around the room already when I woke up, and even then I knew that there was no way to get out of here unless someone came.

My hands and feet are tied tightly, but it wouldn't take me that long to get out of them.

But what would I do next? I have no way to escape, so I'm counting on them sending someone here to cut down if they don't let me go. Easy.

"What does a woman have to do to get attention here?" I'm sure there's someone behind that door. I just need them to come in. "Helloooo!"

I tried to pull my hands out of the rope on my hands again, but in vain. Someone knows how to tie properly.

"Fine." I said to myself. "Let's try this." I whispered. "Luna! Killian! What the hell is going on? Where the hell am I?"

They think I'm Lyssa, don't they? Why not use it?

I heard muffled voices, but no one opened the door.

Looks like I made an idiot out of myself. I don't like to do that.

"Okay, I've had enough." I whispered. "You have ten seconds before..." I didn't have time to finish. The door was forced open and a figure appeared in it, quickly approaching me.

When they were close enough under the light, I noticed the blonde hair. Luna, right?

Before I could even say anything, she stopped infront of me and her hand landed on my cheek.

It took me a few seconds to recover.

"Hello to you too." Slowly I looked at her.

"Why can't you shut your mouth?" She said angrily.

"Guess." I looked around the room, my prison.

"Where were you eleven months ago?"

"Honey, I don't know what I did a week ago. You can't ask me to tell you...."

"Then remember!" She cut me off.

"And I thought you'd be the sweet one." Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed another figure by the door. Also short like a blonde. I assume it's the bitchy one.

"I'll ask you one last time. Where. Have. You. Been."

"Do you really want to know?" I raised an eyebrow. "Eleven months ago? Give me a second. Oh, I know." I smiled. "I was trying to get into your mother's panties."

This slap was already deserved.

I felt the metallic taste of blood on my tongue and laughed. "That's all you got?" I raised my head to her. "I expected more."

She looked at me one more time before turning and walking away. I watched her go until she rounded the corner and disappeared from my sight. Then I shifted my attention to the other one.

"Did I say something wrong?" I pretended to be innocent.

"You know what's funny? That if you always acted like this, we'd be friends. The best. I like your attitude."

"I guess there's a but?"

"But," she pushed herself away from the wall and walked closer to me, "you almost killed me, Killian, and you were the biggest bitch to Luna. I might not tell them, but I like them, so be careful what you say and do. They might care if you die, but I don't. You were dead once, your death won't hurt them so much again."

"I like you." I smiled. "Why don't you untie me and we can work something out?"

"Looks like you finally figured out how to joke around." She laughed. "That's good. Now, who do you work for?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." I shrugged my shoulders.

"I thought so. How did you get out of Germany?" She asked another question and this time I really didn't know what she was talking about.

"Another question?"

"Alright let's try another way." She turned and walked to the corner where there was another chair, similar to mine. She pulled it in front of me and sat down. "I'll tell you something, and you'll either say yes or no. Do you agree?"

"Why not?" It can be fun. And I can also manipulate it as I see fit.

"The first time you saw Killian was at the harbor, right?"

"Yes." That's true.

"So you'd never seen him before. He didn't look familiar at all? Like you'd seen him somewhere?"

"Nope." I shrugged my shoulders.

"Does the name Lyssa mean something to you?"

"You called me that, but that's not my name."

"Eris, right?" I nodded. "So Eris," she propped her elbows on her knees, "do you know anything about white snakes?"

"About whom?" I frowned.

White snakes? Oh yeah, the people I'm killing. But I won't tell her that, now will I?

"So no? What about the people you killed?" Before I could say anything, she spoke again. "It's quite possible you don't know anything about them either. I think you have someone over you. Someone's pulling your strings. You're just a pawn in someone's game. Again. Funny." She laughed.

"I'm sorry, but I'm lost. What are you talking about?" I said with a smile on my face.

"If you're trying to provoke me into exploding and beating you up, it won't work. Maybe it would work on Luna, but not me." She leaned back and crossed one leg over the other. "I have a theory, do you mind if I think out loud?"

"I would get up and leave, but that probably won't work in my case." I looked down at the chair.

"You're right. So you'll have to listen to me. Where do I even begin? Oh, I know. After you blew up the main building, you somehow got out. I'm guessing someone helped you. Maybe one of the white snakes? Another a member of the management? Maybe you hit your head in the explosion."

I listened to her carefully. I didn't say anything because I don't even have anything to say. That hasn't happened to me in a long time. I always have something to say.

I blew up some main building? I would probably remember that, wouldn't I?

"Or they..." She stopped and her smile fell. "Shit."

"Are you going to share what you realized with the class or no?"

She looked me up and down before standing up and walking away.

"Hey! Where are you going?" I shouted after her, but it was in vain. She slammed the door behind her and was gone.

Maybe I really should have left New York when I had the chance.



"Luna, what's going on?" I stopped her in the hallway when I saw her coming out of the door that led to Lyssa. "Luna."

"Leave it." She tried to get pass me but I stopped her.

"I was asking something."

"It's my fault." She finally said.

"What is your fault?" I frowned.

"That down there." She pointed behind her. "It's my fault."

"Luna, what are you..."

"I literally gave her a button that would kill her." She cut me off. "I would have to live with that for the rest of my life. I blamed myself for it every morning when I got up. Because it's not fair that I woke up and not her." I saw how her eyes began to fill with tears. "But she lived. And now she's brainwashed. Every death she caused is on me."

"That's not true and you know it." I tried to grab her hand but she pulled away.

"Do you know how hard it was to look at you or Lucy? Knowing that it was my fault that Lyssa wasn't coming back? You opened up to someone and I took her away from you. Lucy found a new family and I took her mother away." A tear slid down her cheek. "It's my fault."

"You think I blame you for what happened?" I raised an eyebrow. "If there's anyone to blame, it's me. But you're wrong in saying that, that down there isn't Lyssa. It's her, Luna. I know it. She's the Lyssa we both know, we just have to help you remember."

"That might not be so easy." I heard a voice from behind Luna and found Nyx there, a not happy look on her face. "We have a problem."

"Just what I wanted to hear as soon as I got back." A male voice called from behind me. Theo. "I've been gone for a month and people are coming back from the dead?"

Tell me about it.

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