Salient Secret 2

21

1 WEEK LATER

Vada

"Idris Scott, you are being sentenced to hell for your crimes," Rik says making his voice really deep.

"Cut it out," Imelda says smacking her goofy brother on the arm.

"Tanith, please just do it," I say.

"You got it boss," she says and her eyes roll back, she pulls a tied up Idris toward her and he disappears the same way the possessive demon did. Tanith explained that it's not her pulling them back, it's a gateway/portal sucking them in, which takes them wherever she wants them to go.

Idris Scott is an anti-fulminare, meaning a bad fulminare. It took us a few days but we finally found him, he was behind the possessive demon, apparently he was in their house, but invisible, he was waiting for me to show up. He refused to tell us who he was working with and what they want with me and he somehow hid his thoughts from Palmer, so we made his punishment worse than death, hell. Now I know what you're thinking, no he can't escape, he doesn't have the same powers as Tanith, he only has the ability to summon and control demons. So he can easily become the king of hell, but he can't escape.

"I'll never get used that," Cassian comments referring to how scary Tanith looks when she uses her powers.

"Try," Imelda says roughly smacking him on the back while she walks away.

"Now I know never to mess with her," Palmer says so only I can hear and I laugh.

"You get used to it," I say. When we get back to the house, everyone slumps down on the couches in the living room. "We still need to find out why Dane said Cynthia Wilder, so everyone get a lot of rest tonight because tomorrow it's back to finding the archives," I announce and they all moan. "That's the spirit," I sarcastically say and walk to the kitchen.

"You sure you're going to be okay tomorrow?" Palmer asks following me.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. None of them know who I am, Tanith will walk in and distract them, I will sneak in, get the keycard and sneak out, it's perfectly fine," I respond.

"You know that's not what I meant, I-"

"Yes you wanna know if I can handle facing Kai who chose to have me removed from his head completely, I'm fine. I have spent 2 years without him, I can handle this. It's better this way," I say interjecting whatever she was going to say.

"And Enzo," she adds. If Kai didn't remember me, his girlfriend, Samantha or whatever and Lorenzo shouldn't remember me either for the safety of Electus' secret. As far as they're concerned, Avery Shaw never stepped foot in this world.

"And blondie," I add.

"You can't be jealous after all this time," Palmer says.

"I'm not jealous, that girl just gives me bad vibes," I honestly say.

"If you say so," she says sipping her hot chocolate, I pull my face and roll my eyes, I'm tired of this conversation. I walk out the kitchen and teleport to my room.

I'm glad Palmer is staying with us for a while but sometimes she's just too smart and it gets on my nerves. I'll let you in on a little secret, I'm mad at Kai for not wanting to remember me. It's worse than having to fake my death. The best time of my life was with Kai, and he voluntarily chose just to delete it, like it never happened. That's insane, I know sometimes shit hurts like hell, but that just means it was worth it right? If after you break up with someone and your heart doesn't feel like it's just been dropped off a building, rode over with a truck and then burnt into ashes, then clearly it wasn't worth it.