BXBX NOVEL Chapter 274: With friends like him [1/2]
Lilly turned to me after she had stripped herself of everything that made her so special in Hellsgate. She threw away her title. Her bloodline. And her authority. All to follow me.
Originally, I wanted to help her find a way to leave her post. After all, someone as loving as Lilly should not have to do the dirty work of the Battlefront.
Little did I know that she would do it herself. The American I loved the most finally opened her mouth and spoke anxiously.
"John. My dearest kindred. I know I promised to use all my resources to aid you. But I have reconsidered. If I am to be worthy of you, I cannot remain bound to another. Please forgive me.
I have nothing now but my {Fate} and my body. Would you still have me?"
Then I heard Bella joke off to the side.
"Fuck this shit! That sneaky little liar! She\'s still rich as fuck! What \'I have nothing\' is this woman talking about?! She\'s fucking delusional!"
"Ssshhh. Quiet. Let her have her moment." Jo hilariously tried to silence the Brazilian.
Jas on the other hand muttered quietly under her breath. "Uncouth savage."
Liv, Aki and Robyn all started to giggle at their interactions. But I didn\'t focus on any of them. Right now Lilly was serious. It was inevitable, in my opinion. Being by my side meant going against her father.
I opened my arms wide and beckoned my spouse into my embrace. My short words contained all my love in response.
"Without question."
Overjoyed, Lilly ran to me and threw herself into my arms. Much like Liv, Lilly must have had doubts at the back of her mind. Anyone in a high enough position would be surrounded by people who only wanted their status or wealth.
As I wrapped my arms around her, I added. "There is nothing to forgive dear, you are all I have ever needed. Not your title, not your connections. Just you. Lilly Browning."
Lilly buried her face in my clothes as she spoke into my shirt. "You must take responsibility. I am a homeless little girl now, if you abandon me, heaven would smite you to death."
"Lilly, I am not afraid of the heavens. What I am afraid of is waking up one day and not seeing you by my side."
"Not for all the money and power in the world, dearest."
Such sweet words made my heart skip a beat. Like a passionate exchange in a romantic movie, my lover and I shared a loving kiss. Afterwards, the rest of the Sirens forcibly separated Lilly and me.
Since most knew how much ass my girls could kick, neither the White Guard nor the 2nd Amendment made a move. The battle was effectively over, but I couldn\'t help but think about what had just happened.
The loss of Lilly\'s influence on the North American battlefront was a shame, but my spouse no longer having to kill rogues was a worthy price to pay.
From my 2nd day as a reaper, I already knew. The Revenants and I would never see eye to eye. Since my ladies were the ones affected by their bullshit, I could never laugh it off with them.
\'No, I might not kill them. I would make sure they knew the pain my girls felt a hundredfold.\'
As it was, my principles already went against the White Guard. They wanted to take some people in for questioning, but I knew they would just use those people as scapegoats, and I couldn\'t let that happen.
Someone let the rogues in.
Someone high up in the food chain.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for such numbers to storm the battlefront. The Phantom I questioned said it was because of Savior, but Savior alone would not be able to ensure that these people would arrive before me.
No. In order to spring the trap, the timing had to be perfect. I arrived here barely at 8:05 p.m. But somehow all the members of the 2nd Amendment were already knocked out. Phillip and Yvonne had even been taken prisoner.
This conspiracy smelled of one man. The same man who had justified the need for a force like the Saviors.
"Look here, bastard. No government is completely clean. Of course you had to have someone do the dirty work. To us, the Saviors are just that. We have to keep our hands clean because they got theirs dirty."
The Nightmare.
Zachary Lynch.
Such mind games reminded me of him. As one of the people maintaining the battlefront, he needed every rogue dead. The bastard would also be kept informed of any traitors or bad eggs.
{It was the Machiavelli! Dominic Maegester! He introduced me to about thirty other groups and over 500 rogue Reapers. He said we could do anything as long as I didn\'t kill anyone from Administration! He said the Rogues would take the fall!}
{Julius Caytiffe! He said you had a harem of Formless women! and that we could have them as sex slaves if we could complete the mission. He said everyone else was off limits! We didn\'t do anything to your saints, we just fondled them a bit!}
It made no sense when you thought about it. Dominic Maegester was a priority one mercenary. There was no way he was going to say everything was fine as long as they didn\'t kill anyone from Administration.
No. Given how the whole battlefront operated, he should have said "don\'t even touch anyone from Administration" period. Brutally beating Phillip, even though he was my exclusive clerk, was already a death sentence.
Challenging David Thomas carried enough weight to have them executed as examples. But no one told them.
It was as if someone had goaded them on. Otherwise, these motherfuckers would have to be the dumbest motherfuckers in Hellsgate.
Meanwhile, the precious resources of the battlefront, the Saint Division of my LLG, remained intact. Looking at the result, my forces were not damaged in the slightest.
Even the purpose of this attack was dubious as fuck. Lilly and the White Guard massacred every rogue they came across. But there were over 700 of them.
How?