Green eyed devils episode 33

Green Eyed Devils
Chapter 33
LAKE (Lyra’s dad)
I paced around my room anxiously with my hands on my h¡ps, I already called Xino who helped me with him the first time, everything was bad.
‘Lake,’ I turned sharply to the door, he was there with Mixzi and Dennison. ‘What the f-ck….’
‘Russell is back!’ Dennison exclaimed. I fold my hands behind my head and sighed, Mixzi went to crying Phoebe.
‘Hey, it’s going to be okay,’ she assured her. ‘This is serious Lake, Russell is the worse person we’ve faced. He’s even worse than Dino and Craig, he operates like a ghost, unseen.’
‘Am I suppose to be feeling better with this news?’ Phoebe sobbed.
‘Mixzi, take her outside.’ Xino ordered. ‘Call Clover and Hendrix, this is much more than we can handle. Dennis, get Beck and Raj.’ They nodded. After they all left he glared at me.
‘What?’
‘You know Lake, you’re the cause of this,’ he accused. ‘If you had listen to me and stay away from Milly, this wouldn’t have happened.’
‘I don’t need any reminder Xino, you would have done the same if it was for Mixzi.’
‘I am smart enough to stay away from trouble, Lake I blame you….’
‘Fine! Blame me! I don’t care! Just don’t let him hurt either one of them, Lyra and Lyle are all I have left, please.’ I sobbed.
‘Maybe we don’t need Clover or Hendrix, we just need Xeris.’
‘What can Xeris do?’
‘Hold on,’ he brought out his phone and made a phone call. ‘Mixzi, don’t call Clover and Hendrix again, I believe to catch a ghost, you need another deadlier ghost…..yes, Xeris….no, I’ll call him.’
‘I’m still confuse…’ He shushed me and called another person.
‘Switched off, where’s Lyra?’
‘With Xeris.’
‘Then we don’t need to worry much, he’ll protect her. I’ll call him in the morning but Lyle? Who’s with him?’
‘Imogene.’
‘That’s not enough….’ He called another number. ‘Xerra, he’s fine…..go to the hospital and watch over Lyle….. What do you mean you’re in Chicago! How come!…..haven’t I warn you to stop dating the son of my frenemy?!….sorry, don’t tell your mother….’ I chuckled despite myself. ‘You’re grounded….yes I love you, bye.’ He hung up.
‘I understand the Xerra because she’s Mixzi but what’s with Xeris?’
‘Hold on,’ I gro-ned and sat on the chair. ‘This corpse stinks….yes, Xeron, where are you?….first thing in the morning, go to Lyle….I’ll explain later….okay, love you too, bye.’
Who’s Russell? Russell was my adopted older brother before he left after everything was willed to me when dad died. I never saw him again until a month to my wedding to Milly. She was dating both of us, though him first. She dumped him after I proposed, he was really angry when he found out I was marrying his ex, I had no idea. Xino warned me to let her go because Russell was a dangerous man but I didn’t listen. He disappeared for years until after the plane crash that almost took Lyle’s life but claimed Milly. Xino and Mixzi helped me, we thought he died in the explosion but he didn’t after all. Last time, Lyra was Ruby Mask when he came so practically, she didn’t exist but he was back and she was around, worse, Phoebe had gotten involve with what she knew nothing about.
# LYRA
‘Here you go milady, a breakfast worth a queen like yourself.’ Xeris said with a funny British accent. I asked him to make me hot chocolate porridge with raspberries and blueberries and creamy scrambled eggs with protein shake to wash it all down. So far, he served me with half eaten creamy scrambled eggs and empty bowl of chocolate porridge.
‘Xeris, what is this?’
‘Food, sorry. When you were taking a bath and I was waiting, I got hungry and ate most of the food.’
‘Xeris, am I suppose to eat just eggs?!’
‘I got raisin bread but then I also ate it, I’m sorry.’
‘Great, I’m eating cereal again.’ I huffed. ‘Thanks boyfriend.’ I walked to the….I mean I limped to the refrigerator to find what to eat.
‘I’m sorry,’ he apologized again. ‘Really sorry.’
‘For what? Almost paralyzing me or starving me for most of the time I’ve been to your house.’ I scoffed.
‘All of them, especially the paralyzing part, shouldn’t have gone too hærd on you.’ I smiled genuinely and chuckled.
‘I don’t mind Xeris, it’s almost normal but I am upset about the starving part, stop making me drink cereal.’
‘You can just cook you know, what would you say if I tell you your food is in the microwave?’ He asked chucklingly. I puffed and closed the fridge.
‘Idiot,’ I limped back to the table since the food was already there. ‘Steak and eggs?’
‘Scrambled eggs, creamy ones.’ I rolled my eyes.
‘Xeris, where’s my phone? I need to call Lyle and check on him.’
‘I don’t know, I broke it.’
‘Can I borrow yours?’ He shrugged and slid his phone over to me. I picked up the phone but there was no reception. ‘No recept….my food!’ He was eating my food. He grinned and dropped his fork. I sighed. ‘Feed me.’
‘My pleasure,’ he shrieked. He walked over to my side and sat on the it. ‘What’s your plan for today?’
‘I’m going to cut my hair, buy a new toy for creamy and call my manager, we need to work on changing me from Ruby Mask to Crystalline.’
‘Crystalline?’
‘It has always been my dream name, a girl who dresses in crystal. Crystal bags, shoes, hairpins, dresses….’
‘I get it, but changing from Ruby to Crystal is a big deal. What will happen to Rubians and those fancy phrase?’
‘Are you trying to discourage me? I thought you said I should be me?’
‘You should, I’m sorry.’ I chewed the food in my mouth with a dreamy smile.
‘I can already see the headlines, “Ruby Mask announce that she will unmask herself on next concert.” And “Ruby Mask says she’s tired of living like her mother….’
‘Headlines should be short.’
‘Who cares!’ I squealed.
Later that morning, Xeris dropped me off at Aunt Xerma’s salon and drove off. She did a great job cutting my hair to stop right above my knees and tinting the middle to the tips to have a very glinting crystal like colour. It looked like glass, bright blue and pale green glass. The style was perfect and suit me.
‘Do you think Xeris will like this tint?’
‘It’s perfect,’ she smiled as she polished my nails to pink with crystal stones. ‘So, you’re both dating now?’ I blushed and nodded. ‘Is he a good boy?’
‘He’s just right.’ She chuckled.
‘There, done.’ I examined my nails and grinned. ‘I’m guessing you will both continue the engagement?’
‘I’ll prefer he propose to me when the times comes,’ she nodded in agreement. ‘My driver will drop you home, okay?’
‘Yeah,’ she packed my hair into a ponytail and took me to her car. I got into the car and the driver drove off. I borrowed Xeris’ main phone since he broke mine. It was still out of reception. I played music as the driver drove, not even paying attention to where he was driving me to. ‘Oooh! Reception is back!’ I squealed. A call came in immediately, Xeris was calling with his other phone. ‘Babe….’
‘Lyra where are you!!!!!’ He scre-med panickingly.
‘Aunt Xerma’s driver is driving me home, you should see my new l…..’
‘That’s not her driver!!!!’ My heart skipped when I heard that. My headphone was still on. ‘Lyra, where are you!’ He cried. I looked at the man who had a smirk on his face, I could see it through the rearview mirror. I looked outside and sent him a brief description of the road before I stylishly dropped the phone under the chair. The car smelt weird, I coughed and coughed until I passed out.
# Imogene .
Xeron went out to get something while I went to buy Lyle the pizza and yogurt he asked for. I gasped when I saw all the guards on the floor, dead. I bent over and took one of their gun and took off my heels. I tiptoed to the ward, opened the door slowly before walking in. No one was in, Lyle laid quietly on the bed, his face to the side.
‘Nothing odd h…’ Someone wrapped her hand around my neck and point her gun on my temple.
‘Don’t move,’ she whispered. ‘Who are you?’
‘I should be asking you that. What did you do to him?’
‘A little poison won’t kill him,’ she said with an evil cackle. I gasped. ‘He might have five minutes left.’
‘And you have one,’ I grabbed the hand with the gun and flipped her over my shoulder. I quickly bent her hand and used it to shoot her brain out. I ran to and pressed the red button, removed the Antipoison needle from my bracket, mom gave it to each and everyone of us. It can cure most poison and weaken few. I pierced it into his neck before calling Tan.
‘Tan, where’s Xeris?’
‘Panicking, Lyra have been abducted.’