Adonis
I watched as Lillian entered the library with her friends,
“, did you hear me?”
I hear Noah say, we had been watching Lillian all day, we needed to get more information on her, and from what we heard Maxwell had been trying to track her down. When I get my hands on him, I know what I’ll do. How dare he hurt what's mine, how dare he put her up for collateral, I grit my teeth a low growl escaping before I had even realized it.
“HELLO earth to ”
I looked over snapping out of my insanity, Noah was talking to me through our helmets, and I didn’t even register what he had said.
“Sorry, I was focusing on the objective.”
He looked over to where we could see Lillian and her friends laughing and studying. Noah sighs and says,
“Remember man rule number 5.”
I look at him shooting daggers and making sure he can feel them too, of course I know, Rule Number 5. I roll my eyes,
“I’m not in love with her, just focusing on the task at hand, Noah.”
He smirks at me.
“Yeah, well her friend over there is pretty cute,”
He says nodding towards the one with the two different colored eyes, Liz I think her name was. I laugh,
“Trust me, Noah, you wouldn’t be able to handle her.”
I tell him smirking, Noah may be my best friend, but he can be a total pushover for the right woman. He looks back over to her and I see something in his eyes, something dangerous.
“Noah, back off alright, anyone and anything related to Lillian is off limits, it would compromise everything, and we both know my father is not a forgiving man.”
We both look at each other and he flips his Visor down so I can’t see his face.
“I still can’t believe he trained us, especially after what he did to your-”
I cut him off before he could finish his sentence,
“Yeah well, what choice did we have, be killed or be the killers, that was the end for us.”
We both shudder at the memory of the day my father had come to both of us and informed us we would begin training. My mother didn't want me to be a part of this world, at first, I didn’t know what she was trying to protect me from, I always thought she was overbearing or controlling.
Turns out my father was the real villain, and that cold November night, I couldn’t do anything to save my mother, I remember it as if it was yesterday. All I could hear were my mother's screams and then watching the light fade from her eyes while my father was on top of her sucking that light out of them. Suddenly Noah nudged me,
“ over there”
I looked over to where he was gazing and sure as shit there here is the man of the hour. Maxwell Times, son of Doraine Times, walking right into the same library my- I mean where the pawn was. Before he went in he stopped and looked like he was studying something,
“ you see that,”
Noah says I nod, and we both look over to where Maxwell is looking, and he is staring at Lillian like she was his ticket to freedom. Ha not on your life bud. She’s going to be mine. I feel something slowly overcome me, I can’t shake this feeling but the thought of her with him makes me want to cut any man limb from limb. I watch him message someone, as soon as he sends it Lillian looks up, and starts to look around.
She doesn’t look bothered, she's calm and cool. That's right baby, good girl don’t let him get a reaction from you. I smile proud he does not faze her. Or so I thought, he walked into the library, and I saw Elizabeth look up, and she went white as a ghost.
“ Don-”
I ignore Noah and rush into the Library, as I get closer I see that filthy man try and put his dirty tainted hands on her, She steps away, and I see in her eyes something that shakes me to my core, I have always seen my victims with fear in their eyes, as I point a gun to their head as they beg for their life right before I put the bullet right in between their eyes, I relished their fear it brought me some peace.
In her eyes, seeing fear in them made me grow cold, as if someone had shot me with an ice bullet and left me for dead. What has this man done to her? I take my helmet off and walk over to where she is. I wrap my arm around her waist.
“Sorry I’m late Lillypad,”
I say in a cool tone, I feel her tense and when she realizes it's me, she relaxes, and that makes my stomach turn, she feels safe with me, this isn’t supposed to be like this. I exchange words with Maxwell and get ready to leave with Lillian, however before we go, I walk up to him and say,
“Just to let you know my father Mr. Malith is looking for you, best show yourself very soon, or it-”
I looked over to where Lillian stood. If he had any shred of love for her he would take my warning.
“Get messy, not just for you.”
His face becomes pale, and I pat him on the shoulder and turn to where Lillian is,
“Ready Lillypad?”
I ask, I take her hand in mine and walk out, the blood boiling in my veins, Noah is still on his bike next to mine. He nods to us,
“Hey man, so this is the girl huh?”
he plays dumb as I walk over with Lillian,
“Yeah, Lillypad meet Noah, my friend.”
“Best friend”
He corrects me. I rolled my eyes and handed Lillian the other helmet. She looks at Noah and smiles, no, that smile is mine, don't smile at him.
“It’s nice to meet you, Noah, I’m Lillian uh ’s friend,”
She says and she shakes his hand. Noah shakes it and mischief forms in his eyes. I step in between them and look down at him. He throws his hands up as if to tell me he knows she’s mine.
“So, where to fellas?”
Lillian asks but before we can go her friends come out.
“Lilly, wait!”
I hear Mary say. They rush over to her.
“We know we said we would bring your stuff back but,”
Elizabeth cuts Mary off before she can finish.
“We wanted to see if your friends wanted to hang out?”
I could see a hint of desire from Elizabeth while she looked at Noah.
“Well, there is only one of hi-”
Noah cuts Lillian off.
“Let me call up Liam, I am sure he would love to meet y’all.”
Noah winks at Elizabeth and she blushes. The girls step away while we call Liam,
“What the hell Noah, what are you thinking?”
I say through my teeth, he looks up at me and smirks,
“Listen, , we have an objective and she’s right there, I won't touch her, but maybe we can use her friends as well.”
He says and I know he's right.
“Hello?”
Liam picks up the phone.
“Liam, it’s Noah.”
I rolled my eyes, knowing now all three of us will be here.
“Yeah, I can see that on the contact, what do you want Dory.”
I see Noah fake a little heart clutch at the nickname,
I can’t help but laugh.
Noah explains everything and Liam tells us he will be here in 10 Minutes.
I sigh and look over to where Lilly and her friends are. She’s smiling and laughing with them, her curls falling just right over her shoulders, I see her smile and I feel at ease.
But I can’t feel this way, no I’m not supposed to feel this way.
A good assassin never gets involved with their target.
So why was she so different? Why was it that when I saw her in trouble, I wanted to save her, I wanted to protect her from everything and anything.
“Hey, you know at the end of the day she’s going to-”
I shot Noah a knowing look. I can’t help but feel sick to my stomach. He’s right though at the end of the day Lillian Han had to die, and she had to die at my hands.