Unearthing Hell: Book 2

Part 1: Chapter 13: Part 1

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Everything inside of me shut down. I looked at Zachary's face again with wide eyes, and for the first time, I could see it. The similarities the two shared. The long, narrow face, the sharp jawline, the height, the broad nose, the mischievous eyes.

Not to mention Zach's crazy and terrible personality.

"Jesus," I breathed out with exasperation, making him smirk.

"Jesus," he replied, resting one hand on my shoulder while the other played with a strand of my hair. "Your little 'Jesus' ain't got shit on me.

"My sweet... sweet sister," he said softly, cupping my face in his hands. I saw Ariel from the corner of my eye take a couple angry steps forward, but Belial grabbed him by the arms before he could get any closer and dragged him back over to his group. "How I do love you... You love me too, don't you?" he asked as he came closer to me, only a couple inches in-between us.

"Zach, of course, I love you," I whispered, placing my hand on his forearm. "You're my family, I'll always love you."

"You would kill someone for me?" he asked carefully, making me pause for a minute. I didn't like where this conversation was heading, but I still nodded my head in reply.

"Yes," I said seriously, "I would do anything to protect you, Zach."

I watched him as he started moving backward, my hands twitching – ready to turn into claws if he attacked me. But, surprisingly, he didn't make a move to hurt me.

When he finally stopped moving backward he was right behind a large window, looking at me with a grin again. He opened the window as wide as he could and said, "I know you would kill for me, Michelle.... But... Would you die for me?" before closing his eyes and leaning back, purposely falling down from an eighth story window.

"Zach!" I screamed as I sped over to the window. But before I could reach it, everyone – even Samael – started either getting in front of me or pulling me back.

"Michelle, stop!" Rahab said as he grabbed onto my left arm and started pulling me towards him.

"Don't even think about it!" Ariel said as he tugged on my right arm, making me cough as I started to cry.

"Zach!" I screeched again, tears falling down my eyes as I fought them as hard as I could without hurting them. "That's my fucking brother! I have to save him!" I cried out, thrashing against them.

"Even if you wanted to, it would've been useless, Michelle," Ioael said, looking at me as he closed the window.

"No, it wouldn't have been useless, you bitch!"I screamed, watching as Cassiel started to walk around the hotel room, looking for something. "And even if it would've been, at least I would have died with my bro-"

"Michelle, listen to me," Samael said calmly as he held onto my shoulders and helped push me backwards. "That wasn't real, okay?"

"What the fuck do you mean, that wasn't r-"

"Listen to me!" he demanded, forcing my mouth to shut as I glared at him through my tears.

My forced silence was his cue to sigh and continue.

"That was a mind game, Michelle. Satan talked to Zachary while he was sleeping. When you left I kept trying to wake him up, but once he woke up I knew it was too late. The bitch had already jacked his brain.

"Lucifer knew you would do anything for family, Michelle. So, naturally, he uses that to his advantage. It looked like Zach fell, but thanks to his daddy,  he might have been teleported to a tanning bed somewhere in the Caribbean for all we know.

"But, if you were to jump, Michelle," he said, pausing for a second as stared at me with an unrecognizable emotion. "You would know that you might die and you would have answered both Zach and Lucifer's question. And if Lucifer made a decoy that you thought was Zach dead on the floor, you would except dying once you hit the floor... and you would be..." he trailed off, clearing his throat and twitching his nose before he could continue. "Gone. You would be gone."

As everything he said started to piece itself together in my head, I thought of everything that has happened since that one day in the car, when Zach read my mind and started to gain some supernatural abilities in the middle of traffic. It made my stomach twist.

I knew something bad was coming, but I thought we would be able to work together to make things right. I thought we would be a team.

I never thought – not in a million years – that Zachary would do something like this to me. After all that we've been through when we had normal lives. After all the times he made my suffering and nightmares fly away.

After I tried to stop him from becoming a monster like me.

After all of that, he still tries to kill me. With no hesitation.

"I can't hate him," I whispered to Samael, looking at him with sad eyes. "I'm trying. I really am trying to make myself hate him, but I... I just... can't," I added, sniffing as everyone slowly started to let go of me.

I took a deep breath in and let it out slowly, keeping my eyes closed the whole time. 'Just calm down, Michelle,' I thought to myself as I opened my eyes and made my way to the bed. 'You've done too much useless crying for one day. Grow up, and let them explain everything.'

"You're going to tell me everything you know about what just happened," I said calmly, my voice croaky, as I closed my eyes. "I can handle anything you tell me," I added, gripping onto the sheets tightly as Zach's calm body falling from the window replayed in my head over and over again. "Leave something out," I hissed, opening my eyes and staring at them seriously. "And I'll kill all of you."