Page 64 of Deathless & Divided

“Maybe they weren’t aiming for Mia, Lily. Besides, killing anyone at that dinner would have caused a stir given who they were married to or children of.”

“Oh,” she mouthed silently.

Damian’s hand found her wrist, his fingers locking around her hand tight before he squeezed just enough to make Lily feel like she had some form of solid ground to steady her.

“Stay,” she said.

“Sure, sweetheart.”

Lily walked through the quiet, dark foyer. She kicked off her heels, barely registering the ache in the soles of her feet as the coolness of the floor met her toes. The lingering daze still edging around her senses was a bitch to kill. It just wouldn’t go away. Damian followed behind in his usual quiet state, but she didn’t mind.

As she rounded the bottom of the stairs, Lily’s walk came to an abrupt stop. A light flicked off to the right, drawing in her gaze. The downstairs bathroom door opened and Dino walked out with a towel wrapped around his waist and another in his hands. He didn’t seem to notice his sister and Damian standing there as he ran the towel through his short hair with one hand while looking at the screen of his cell phone in his other. Then he hung the towel around his neck, padded further out of the bathroom, and kept looking at his phone.

“Dino,” Lily said, still confused about the darkness of the house and her brother’s presence.

Christ.

She wasn’t sure about anything.

Dino should know, though.

“Dino,” Lily said again, louder the second time.

Her brother finally looked up from his phone. “You’re back early.”

“Someone said you were working,” Lily said.

“Got the job done early.” Dino gave Damian a nod. “Thanks for the message.”

Damian didn’t say a thing.

Lily was confused. “What message?”

“I let him know I was bringing you home,” Damian explained.

Oh.

“Something happened,” Dino said, gracing his phone with all of his attention again. He didn’t seemed surprised or bothered at all. Why wasn’t he panicked? Why wasn’t he demanding answers and wondering what happened? “My messages are going crazy, nothing makes a lot of sense.”

“Mia was shot,” Lily said, feeling distant all over again.

“Killed,” Damian added lower.

Dino’s left brow arched high as he regarded his sister again. “When did you get the call?”

Damian shook his head. “We didn’t.”

“Didn’t?”

“We were there,” Lily whispered.

A brief flicker of concern crossed Dino’s features before it disappeared and the blankness returned. “Damian?”

The one word was laced with something Lily couldn’t decipher. It sounded a hell of a lot like a threat tangled in with a million and one warnings. Why would Dino look to Damian for an answer on that? Her brother damn well knew they had been at the dinner.

“Serena had a spell,” Damian said drily.

Dino still didn’t look all too pleased. “Oh?”