Chapter 6

Lilith POV

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“Theo…. He did what?!” I stuttered, i was enraged hearing him say Theo had sent someone to him.

“Lilith I need you to calm down, okay?” He said spreading out his hands trying to calm me down.

“Calm down? Calm down? What the fuck do you mean calm down? He's gone too far with this,”

“He's going to pay for this,” I said about storming out of the room, when I felt a hand hold onto my wrist. I traced the hand up to see Nolan’s pitiful face looking down at me.

“Don't do it Lilith,” he said, calmly.

“We should be grateful at least that Cassian wasn't hurt,” he said making a bit of sense but I wasn't about to agree to that just yet. I wanted the whole of hell to rain down on Theo for all his atrocities.

“You say we should be grateful that Cassian wasn't hurt, but what if he was?” I said sadly, my eyes slowing gathering tears that threatened to fall.

“But I wasn't,” Cassian said.

“Still doesn't change the fact that Theo sent someone after you,” I said almost breaking down.

“And it's happening to you and it's all because of me,” I said, the tears I tried to hold back streaming down my cheeks.

“He has to pay for this, I don't deserve this, neither do you Cassian,” I said, going down on my knees and bawling out my eyes.

My mind running with a lot of unexplainable feelings, my heart hurting like a thousand needles piercing it and suddenly what felt like so much pain suddenly felt warm. I turned my head, to see Nolan hugging me from behind, my eye sight blurry with the tears. I immediately turned without thinking twice and got englufed in his embrace as I cried out my eyes. It felt embarrassing crying in front of these two guys, but it's the same guys who were with me right now in my lowest.

“So are you going to keep crying or what Lilith?” He said playfully, walking back into the room with clean clothes snapping me out of what felt like a few minutes of soiling Nolan's shirt with my tears.

“Leave her man! Let her cry all she wants,” Nolan said, dissuading him.

“Nahhhh, I'm fine, I'm not hurt, Theo’s guy went down, not me, I don't see the reason why we are crying about it” he said spreading his arm open as though making a valid point.

“We ain't raising you to be a cry baby Lilith” Cassian said sarcastically, wearing a smug on his face.

“Fine! But Theo will have to pay for it,” I said firmly.

“Oh he will,” Cassian said without hesitation, a meancing smile displaying on his face.

“You know what?” Cassian said, smiling widely at the both of us.

“What is it Cassian?” I asked, drying off the tears from my eyes, while Nolan leaned on the wall folding his arms against his chest looking intrigued about what Cassian had to say.

“Let's go bike racing,” he said excitedly.

“Hell no!” Nolan disapproved almost immediately.

“Why?”

“I don't think it's safe, and you want to carry Lilith along too? C'mon man” he said, sounding uninterested.

“She can ride with you, but the loser gets to be Lilith’s slave all day,” Cassian said, sounding even more excited.

“C'mon, don't be such a bore,” he said, trying to convince Nolan. Somehow I knew Nolan wasn't going to budge unless I tried to say something and it won't hurt a little if I took my mind off things at the moment.

“Nolan, it's been a while I sat on a bike, let's go riding just this once,” I said trying to make puppy eyes.

“See? Nolan, she's also interested,” Cassian added.

“Fine fine,” he said.

Nolan immediately grabbed a helmet hanging on the wall, wore it on my head and buckled it. We all walked out to the garage and my mouth dropped at the sight of the bikes right in front of me.

“Is this the suzuki boulevard C109R?” I said, my eyes gleaming with enthusiasm.

“Glad to see that someone still knows about bikes,” Cassian chuckled slightly.

He lifted off the sheets covering another bike and I couldn't contain my shock it was the Honda Rebel 300 in front of me. I covered my mouth with my hands, these bikes were hard to get by. As much as I didn't like my brother biking I somewhat picked an Interest in bikes, I could stay for hours admiring bikes online and getting to see it physically only made me marvel.

“Are you just going to stand there all day admiring it or we're going to ride it?” Cassian said, tossing the bike key over to Nolan.

I walked closer to the Suzuki boulevard, tracing my fingers over the black and shiny bike, it was a beauty to behold, by the time I was done being amused Nolan had kick-started the bike already.

“Come on, hop on,” he said, looking straight at me.

I held onto his shoulders as I sat on the bike. They both drove out of the garage and stopped at the end of the alleyway that leads to the garage.

“Are you ready?!” Cassian asked looking at the both of us.

Nolan revved up the bike in response, wearing his glasses.

“We're racing to the nearest fueling station and back, approximately 5km, remember the loser gets to be Lilith's slave for a day,” Cassian said confidently like he was sure he wasn't going to lose.

“Yeah yeah,” Nolan said, nodding in agreement.

“In 3….2…..1…..Go!” Cassian shouted, as they both sped off.

The sunset kissing my face, and the wind blowing making it all the better. I slid my arms around Nolan's torso, trying to enjoy the moment, this right here feels so soothing and good, it is exactly what I need.

My mind slowly drifted to the first time I met Theo, it felt the same way I feel right now on this bike, I couldn't help but feel so much love burning within me for Theo but it only broke my heart that someone who I loved so much would….

“Lilith!” Nolan called out, snapping me out of my thoughts.

“I want you to know that I'm here for you,” he said.

Those words melted my heart like cheese on a pie.

“Thank you,” I said resting my head on his back, soon afterwards I lifted up on my head and a car was heading directly at us, seemed like Nolan was distracted.

“Nolan! Nolan! Watch out!”