018 Wrong Day To Die

"My Lord! Why, why are you back so soon?!"

Themis stared at the man entering the bar, too nervous to even talk smoothly. She had no idea how she could explain the situation to him right now. He was supposed to be back the day after tomorrow!

"Change of plan." Erebus sighed and started walking upstairs. God knows what happened in the past two days. He was exhausted and just wanted to have a break and get some rest.

"Are you looking for Kitty?!" Themis wanted to present that as a normal question, but it came out as a shout.

"Why?" Erebus's step took a pause, and he turned to look at Themis. As much as painful it was for him to be away from Kitty, but he was subconsciously avoiding thinking about her, because he took the deal.

The deal with the devil.

He didn't put himself as the witness, instead, he put the case in the hands of the King, which means the queen now had the whole power over this case, which basically means Perses was going to walk from his crime.

He didn't know how to tell Kitty that HE let the killer of her family loose, so Themis's question struck him as particularly weird, the way she broght Kitty up.

"I mean..." Themis stammered, looking for a good excuse. But her brain was all blank, because there was no way to hide this from Erebus now.

Erebus squinted his eyes and stared at her for a while before he turned to go upstairs, but in a hurried way.

"She, she went to bed early today! I think she must be tired!" Themis followed up to Erebus and rushed out the worst lie, and he stopped on the staircase in a sudden.

"Themis." Erebus turned to her, and said only one word. He just stood there on the staircase, eyes on her, waiting.

"My, my Lord." Themis replied with her head lowered to her chest. Lying to him was hard, and knowing that he looked right through her lie felt even more horrible for her.

"Last chance, Themis." Erebus's voice was now filled with the domination of an alpha, and Themis could not handle the pressure anymore.

"I'm sorry, my Lord! But I did it for a good reason! I thought she lied! I, I still do! It's just, she... she ran away--"

"What? What, did, you, say?" One word at a time, Erebus took a step closer to her, and his voice, for the first time in their conversation ever, was filled with danger.

"I... I..." Themis totally lost the ability to talk.

Erebus held on to the handrail hard, and the wood made a cracked and split. Themis froze in fear and shock, unable to even move.

He took a deep breath, as if making a very hard decision. Finally, he pulled out his phone, dailed Metis's number and put it against his ear, walking past Themis with no more words to her.

"My Lord!" Themis shouted, but Erebus was already out of the door...

"Who are you?" Kitty turned back at the voice behind her, only to find a stranger standing there. She immediately took a step back from him with that question.

"I'm no one." The man said with a smirk, "But you, you are famous now."

Kitty didn't reply, she looked around, thinking a way out. The man was all smiling, but he had the dangerous feeling, like a killer. Who could he possibly be? He didn't look like someone under Erebus, but who else had she crossed over?

The Witch?!

"What do you want from me?" Kitty asked, trying her best to not show the fear in her voice.

"I want you to come with me." The man said, but his face was clearly saying that he was losing patience.

"For what?" Kitty took another step back; she could feel the danger coming from the man now.

"You are indeed magical. I do wonder, how DID you lost the two men we sent following you?" He didn't answer her question, but taunted her with a smirk on his face. The man got bold as the sky got darker. He knew the night was to his advantage.

"There must be some mistake. I really don't know what you are talking about." Kitty was getting more and more frustrated.

Did he just say that she was magical? That was a weird choice of word. And she didn't feel particularly magical on that day. Everyone was saying things she couldn't even understand, and somehow they are all accusations on her no less.

"No? I guess we will find out. I'll get you to talk, no worries." The man was now laughing in a very vicious way, and there was no way anyone ever buys his "no worries" in this kind of a sentence.

"Hi! There you are!" Kitty suddenly began to yell, and the man didn't even turn to look, thinking she was just trying to distract him so she can escape.

"Are you really gonna show your wolf in front of human? This is not some small village that you can just wipe out." Kitty was betting on him being one of Perses man, because other than him, she really couldn't think of anyone who had the resources AND the reason to send men to follow her.

She was right. He WAS.

"Hey! There you are!" The bunch of what look like to be college students answered her call!

"We thought you left first! Did you get lost? Haha..." A guy from the group came to escort Kitty, and Kitty ran towards him knowing the man in suit won't turn into a wolf to catch her with so many witnesses.

He didn't.

Kitty left with the group of students, and the man just stood there, eyes fixed on her.

"Thank you so much!" Kitty started after they left for a few streets, "You saved my life!"

"No problem! Glad we can help! It was smart of you to pretend you know us! It IS dangerous for a girl to walk around these streets alone in the middle of the night." The guy who escorted her nodded at her, thinking patting on her shoulder might be too much for a girl who was just shocked by a terrifying man.

"Where's your home? We'll take you back." One of the girls suggested.

"Oh, no. It's okay. I can get back myself. It would be too much to ask from you." Kitty didn't want to tell them she was homeless.

"No trouble at all! We wouldn't feel right if we leave you like this on the street."

For a moment, Kitty didn't know what to do. She had nowhere to go, but she also didn't know how that man found her on the street. Was that by accident? Or they knew where to look for her?

With no identification, no money and no friends in a city, it surely was hard for her to survive.

Kitty started to explain, hoping that they would just see her as a teenager having an argument with parents. She was worried they might take her to an orphanage if they knew the truth: "I admit, I just ran away from home. I know it's wrong but I just really don't want to--"

"Glad to know that you knew it was wrong to ran away." A man came up to them and interrupted.