Secrets And Sins Part 3: Happy ever after

Chapter 5

***Sooooo bad news is I have caught up with myself and updates will be weekly unless I find more time to write...Good news is I have the entire story planned out and it's gonna be fuuuun...Anyway, here is chapter 5. Enjoy :)***

~Ava~

I really hate it here...

"I know Ava, but it was the best choice for Beatrice."

Maybe...but I still hate it.

"Is that the best you've got?" Lilith taunted, interrupting as usual, her scaly wings undulating as she treaded air on the other side of the auditorium, "When did you get so bloody slow?"

"I'll show you slow." Ava growled, teleporting just below the other woman to grab her ankles, Lilith yelping in surprise as Ava swung her violently to the right.

The force was enough that Lilith had to teleport herself, and by extension, Ava, into the center of the room to avoid being dashed against the stone wall. Now in the middle of the cavernous auditorium, Lilith managed to twist free of the Halo bearer's grip, aiming a vicious uppercut towards her abdomen, Ava dived to put distance between them.

Flaring her wings outward to stop her momentum just before the marble floor, Ava looked up at Lilith who was smirking right back at her, eyebrows raised.

They had been sparring like this for over an hour now, Ava trying to find a way to incapacitate Lilith for long enough to escape to the operating room, and Lilith fighting back just hard enough to keep Ava busy with inciting more rage. It was entirely frustrating. Ava had already tried teleporting back, but Lilith seemed to always know when she was about to initiate it and immediately went on the offence, diverting Ava's attention.

Though she understood the winged woman was trying to provide a distraction from what was going on just a couple of halls away, Ava was counting the seconds until she could get Bea away from here.

After Camila had failed to remove the arrow from Bea's stomach, they had to make the incredibly hard decision of what to do next. A medical center in Florence was out, there would be too many questions about why a woman with a magical crucifix buried in her chest had been shot with a glowing blue arrow to make up a convincing story. Cat's cradle was an easy twenty-hour drive away, they would never make it in time, not with Bea bleeding so profusely.

That had left only one other option, one that Ava despised and made sure her friends all knew it, Vatican City. It was a three-hour drive from the cafe and would give Bea access to the Pope's secret hospital wing as well as some of the best surgeons in Italy, all of which knew about the Halo.

It hadn't been Ava's choice to be here with Lilith instead of holding her fiancé's hand. But, at Mary's request, Ava had been rather forcibly removed during the procedure.

Fear squeezed at Ava's heart as they rushed down the corridor of Vatican City's hospital wing. Her eyes were fixed on the grey face of her fiancé lying unconscious on the gurney. Bea had been completely still for over an hour now. There was not a twitch or a groan or a gasp from the sister warrior, even when they hustled her out of the van. In fact, if it wasn't for the persistent, but weakening, rise and fall of Bea's chest, she could've been dead.

Reaching the operating theatre, a nurse moved into Ava's path with a hand up, speaking firmly in Italian.

"What?" Ava asked, forced to halt.

Ava closed a hand on the rail of the gurney to stop Bea as well. This caused an eruption of irritated Italian voices and though her understanding of the language was fairly basic, it wasn't hard to get the gist of what they wanted.