A Spy's Home---Book 3: A Friend I've Never Met

Chapter 20

Luke's Point of View

I was brought back to consciousness by the feeling of a cold, wet rag dampening my forehead, and my eyes fluttered open. Instinctively, I lifted my hand to touch my head, and felt a rag and bandages covering it.

I winced as a sharp pain shot through me, and I moaned. "Hey, Luke, how are you feeling?" I heard Zylina's voice ask, and slowly turned my head. She stood from the sofa, and walked over to me, before sitting on the wooden coffee table.

"Better, I guess," I responded; I sat up, took the rag off my head, and watched as Zylina sat next to me and took the rag from my hands.

"Uh, where's Lilian?" I asked, a bit worried, noticing she was not in the room; neither was Rory.

"Rory went to go get her from the business building. After realizing the file thing was a trap, we figured the kid might have been part of a trap too." she explained to me.

At the mention of the file, I looked down at my feet, and muttered, "Zylina, I'm so sorry about the file; I didn't know it was a trap. Now we'll never figure out what experiment you were a part of."

She placed a comforting hand on my shoulder, and said, "I don't care about the file, I care that you're alive. Who cares if I was part of an experiment as a baby? I'm still human."

I continued to look at my feet filled with guilt; it wasn't just information about the experiment she was a part of, but it also information on her parents, and who they were. I need to tell her, but I can't find the guts to do it.

I was knocked from my thoughts at the sound of the door opening, and both Zylina and I snapped our heads around. Lilian was staring right at me in shock and terror with Rory closing the door behind her.

She proceeded to rush to my side and give me a tight embrace, causing me to wince a little. "What happened?" she questioned, letting me go.

I hesitated at first, but I then explained what had happened; the bomb in the file, me bashing my head pretty hard, getting taken out of the building just as the explosion caught up, and the wave that had knocked us off our feet and knocked me unconscious. Part of me wished that I hadn't told Lilian about any of it because when I finished she looked up at Rory and Zylina, and gave them a death glare.

I tried to plead with my eyes that none of it was their fault, but I could tell by the anger flaring in her blue eyes that her mind wouldn't change.

I watch Rory tap Zylina on the shoulder and gesture for her to follow him upstairs; probably to talk about whether they should stay or leave.

"Hey, Lilian, I'm going to rest for a little bit, you want to make dinner tonight?" I asked, when she and I were alone.

"Sure...." her voice trailed off, and I closed my eyes as her footsteps faded away, walking off to the kitchen.

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Zylina's Point of View

I shoved clothes into my duffel bag; I wasn't angry with Rory for insisting that we should leave, and lay low for a little bit, but I was a little sad that I wasn't able to see what was in the file. It was gone, though, and there was nothing I could do about it, and that frustrated me.

I heard the door creak open behind me, and I turned around expecting to find Rory, but that's not what I found; instead of Rory it was a fist flying towards my jaw.

Crack!

Thud!

I heard both of those from the time the first connected with my jaw bone to the time I collapsed to the wooden floor breathing hard. I looked up dazed and confused, and to my surprise it was Lilian, and she was pointing a pistol inches away from my face.

"Lilian, what are you doing?" I asked; I kept the terror out of my voice, but I was actually really anxious.

Lilian's hands were trembling and I could see her eyes were filled with tears. I watched as she took a sharp breath in and choked out, "I knew you couldn't be trusted. You tried to kill Luke."

For a second, I was confused, but it only took me that moment to realize why she would think that; She might think that I agreed to put her on the mission so Rory and could be alone with Luke to kill him, or that I told the boys to leave me alone in the room, so I could activate a bomb.

I gazed up at Lilian, and I knew after witnessing her parents die, Lilian had every right not to trust me, and that's what scared me the most. 

TBC....