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I shrugged. “For now.” I caught the movement of Jillian palming a knife, and I raised an eyebrow at her. “Come at me, bitch, and I’ll rip your throat out.”
“Youcan’t kill me,” she sniffed, hands on her hips. “It’s against the rules.”
“Didn’t say kill. Don’t you think I know as much as you do about torture and keeping a mouse alive to play with it? Squeak squeak, little mouse.”
My threat actually struck something inside her, and she backed down again, sheathing her knife with another poisonous glare. Of course, when someone like Jillian stepped down from a fight, they’d already begun planning a better move.
I’d definitely need to watch my back around these two more than ever until I figured out how to get back to Luca and Kas.
And, fuck me, I needed to get word to Kas.
If he’d heard any of my thoughts when the gobbelins attacked, they would be insane with worry right now. But first, I had to take care of these two twats - I didn’t want them trying to skim my thoughts while I spoke with Kas.
I refocused on Darnell as the more reasonable one of the pair. “So, are we going to work together, or should I leave you again with no book and no idea how to get out of this section? I have to say, in this Trial, you two are failing spectacularly.”
“We found another way into the Prophecy section, but passage is... complicated,” he said after a long moment of staring me down. I could feel his hatred, but his calm voice showed that he knew he needed my help.
“Didn’t Janus want to help you, Jilly?” I goaded her, smirking.
She didn’t answer, and I filed that away for later - maybe there was some sibling rivalry I could work with when I needed it.
“Well, show me, and maybe I can crack your case,” I said, reveling in the feeling of being the one they had to ask for help. I knew it was petty, but it felt good to be needed for something more than just fighting.
And after reuniting with myaimaand coming back from a brutal death feeling better than ever, I couldn’t help but wonder if I really was a Goddess in the making.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
KANA
My biggest problem wasn’t actually Darnell and Jillian, unfortunately.
I was keenly suspicious that the gobbelins were specifically hunting me, and while I didn’t need knives to hurt a vampire, I couldn’t go sinking my fangs into a gobbelin. I needed heavy weapons and new armor.
The only advantage I had right now was that they hopefully thought I was dead and wouldn’t be searching the labyrinth for me.
“When are you going to tell us about what attacked you? Your clothing is in pieces,” Darnell pointed out as we made our way toward the new passageway they’d found into the Prophecy section. They hadn’t yet told me the complications, but since the other passage was the flower field where we’d watched Nineve die, I wasn’t overly confident we’d be able to get through this one, either.
