Secrets And Sins Part 3: Happy ever after

Chapter 52

***Pretty hard going at the moment but we are getting there. Thank you for all the comments and kudos, it's really motivating.

Hope you enjoy the chapter, and the smut I managed to shoehorn in ;)***

~Lilith~

The leather muzzle dropped heavily to the ground in front of her, but Lilith barely noticed, her eyes locked on the woman in front of her.

"Man am I glad to see you!" Ava was almost teary-eyed in relief as she shouted over the chaos all around them.

Lilith couldn't help but roll her eyes, it was almost an almost automatic response to Ava's gushing, but really, she was just as fucking relieved to see Ava.

"Ava, I..." Movement behind the Halo bearer drew Lilith's attention upwards. "Shit! Watch..."

Ava couldn't even turn before the butt of a spear collided with the side of her head, sending her crumpling forward into Lilith's lap.

"Oh, God! Was that too hard?" The other Ava that Lilith had seen earlier fell to her knees beside them. "Oh, fuck! There's blood, I knew it was too hard!"

There was something familiar about her, in the way her back was ramrod straight as her shaky hands cupped the unconscious Ava's cheeks, like she wasn't entirely comfortable in her own body.

"Halo...?"

Golden ringed eyes snapped upwards, the panic in them definitely Halo's. "Lilith! I'm sorry, I'm sorry you've been dragged into this. I'm so sorry this is happening. I'm sorry, I'm..." They trailed off, hands clutching at the sides of their head.

"What is this?" Lilith grabbed Halo's wrist, trying to keep their focus. It was only a matter of time before the guards reached them. "What is happening, what do you know?"

"It's all my fault..." Halo winced, looking genuinely ashamed. "And there's not much time, just know we're trying to find a way out for you both."

"Wait," she blinked in surprise, "you did this?" A bolt of anger flashed through her chest. "Did you betray her?"

"I..."

Before Halo could reply, they were pulled apart.

Lilith was still reeling from the trial when she came to a halt outside the door to her cell. Ava was here, and alive, so that was a good thing. But what remained to be seen were the angel's plans for the two of them. It was pretty obvious Lilith was being treated as the enemy, but what of Ava? She seemed under heavy guard also, and Lilith doubted very much that they were going to be happy with her after she sent that asshole with the transformer name though the wall of the amphitheater.

The door opened, and the guard behind her shoved Lilith in. She went without a fuss, reclaiming her spot against the back wall and sliding to the floor. She closed her eyes and breathed through the remaining adrenaline firing through her synapses. Before seeing Ava, she'd been so sure she was being taken to her execution back there, and Lilith would be lying if she said it didn't affect her. All she could think about as she stood waiting for the end at the heavy door to the amphitheater was Mary and how she never had time to fix what she had done to her.

The creak of the door to her cell opening snapped Lilith from her thoughts. Raphael entered, a thick blanket under one arm and a bowl carefully carried in his hands.

"Here, you must be hungry." He murmured, offering the bowl of what looked like some sort of stew to her.

Lilith looked up at him with a frown. She couldn't deny that she was hungry but fuck him if he thought she wasn't going to demand an explanation.