BLACK GHOUL
Chapter 181: Black Rogue [2]

Chapter 181: Black Rogue [2]

The door slid open, and Iris and Riley sauntered in.

"Nice of you to join us, sis," Rory said, smirking.

Iris just rolled her eyes, not ready to deal with her overbearing brother right now, who always seemed to want to catch her attention in a teasing or annoying way.

"Hey," Liam said turning to his wife, with a sweet smile, seeing her each time always seemed to brighten his day.

"Hey" She mustered up a smile back to him. "So have you guys thought of anything yet?" she asked, facing the widescreen on display.

"Yeah, we-" he paused for a minute as his nose caught something.

He turned to Riley once more, observing her, she was on a black oversized sweater, along with black shorts.

Riley caught his stare, feeling somewhat nervous but she shook it off. "What?" she shrugged.

"I smell blood, are you okay?" Liam asked worriedly and then a frown pressed his features.

Shit... she forgot that Liam had a high sense of smell, She gotta hand it to him, his senses were quite strong, she should have expected such. Her body became nervous again, she knew staying silent for long wasn’t gonna cut it, and he would grow suspicious, so she answered faster than she intended, a mistake on her part.

"Yeah!" she quickly answered. Great.. too bad she was trying to avoid suspicion because that was an error, and when Liam senses something was wrong, he never lets it go until he gets answers, he was that much impulsive, aside from being sensitive.

Liam raised an eyebrow at her reply, facing her fully, gaining the attention of the others.

"Are you sure you’re okay?!" he asked once more in a more serious tone, hoping to find out what was wrong because he knew his senses can’t trick him.

"Of course"

"Then the blood" he urged.

Her throat went up and down. "My period"

"Okay, this is getting awkward" Race said grimacing, he really did not want to hear more than that, but Liam and Riley were so spontaneous with each other and way forward.

Kayla elbowed him, to keep shut, he just gave a look.

’Crap’ Iris thought in her head panicking, trusting Liam to always surge further to make answers, Riley was not going well with this at all. Was this her plan to keep this away from him? Well, she was doing such a GREAT job.

A smile that didn’t reach Liam’s eyes found his lips, he took a step forward leaning close.

"I know when you’re on your period" he whispers close to her ear.

Riley shivers, she didn’t know if it was from how close he was or the fear of getting caught... she gulps hard at her husband’s words.

She quickly pulled away, clearing her throat.

"Well I’m so.. that’s the end of it... now tell me what you guys have come up with in destroying Vincent Jones" she said in a serious tone not taking her eyes off his, as did Liam. She needed to divert this as best as she could, let’s hope it works.

"We thought Linda Sanford would help in gaining info inside the agency" Rory spoke up trying to break the tight air around due to Riley and Liam’s discussion.

"Wait what? Linda?" Riley said, blinking, breaking their gaze with Liam.

"That fancy woman?!" she adds.

"Exactly what I said," Kayla said.

"She’s the only one that can get us in," Liam said, facing others.

Riley could feel he was tense, he wondered if he knew, she couldn’t tell, he was keeping that damn unreadable expression again.

"Well to get to her, we will have to attend this ball, it’s the only way we can gain contact, she’s a ghost just like us," Kayla said as her fingers went fast against the keyboard.

An invite came up.

"This invitation was sent on the ghoul’s website, a royal ball as she puts it, a week from now... inviting all ghoul... millionaires... those cheesy ass people who love staying in the dark and can’t even fight for their own kind, all they care about is their wealth," she adds rolling her eyes.

"Wait, Ghouls have a website?" Rory asked, stunned.

Everyone nods ’like wasn’t it obvious?’

"I had no idea!"

"We attend the ball, Iris, Rory, Kayla, you’re coming with me" Liam states.

Riley blinks like she heard wrong facing him.

"And what about me?"

"You aren’t attending," he said, not sparing her a glance.

"Excuse me?" Riley said as her looks turned pissed.

"Uh oh" Race made a sound in a sing-tone voice.

"I think we better leave," Gray said.

The others nod in agreement as they scatter, the door sliding shut.

Riley’s heated gaze was still fixed on Liam’s face.

"Why won’t you let me attend the ball?" Riley demands.

He finally faced her.

"I need you here, to care for the affairs within" he states.

"That’s bullshit Liam, we always go on missions together, you can’t keep me out of this" she hissed.

"Really now" he hissed back.

She looks away.

"Babe are you keeping something from me because I would like to know?" He demands as calmly as he could.

"I don’t get why you’re keeping this from me, when we should be working together Liam, since the moment we came back to New York, you’re keeping me away from this fight... it’s unfair"

"I’m trying to protect you," he said through clenched teeth.

"Why, because it’s my uncle coming after us?!" she hissed.

He looks away.

"I don’t need your protection, I can take care of myself," she said, turning to leave.

"Babe wait!" he said grabbing her arm, she winced in pain holding her shoulder.

"What’s wrong, are you okay?" he demands in a serious tone, he smelt more blood.

"Let go of me," Riley said, trying to break free from his hold.

"Riley" he growled.

She yanked her arm off his grip, holding her shoulder in pain, staring at him with furious eyes.