>>20600155Cassie sighs and pulls Lexi out of the chair, before untying the rope around her wrists. “This doesn’t mean I quite trust you yet,” Cassie growls. “But… I can see you’re not lying.”
Lexi laughs and abruptly hugs Cassie. “I’ll take your ‘not quite trust’ over a bullet to the head any day of the week, love.” As the hug ends, she grabs both of Cassie’s hands. “The Foremother, is very, very interested in both you and your sister.”
The look in Lexi’s eyes becomes earnest, almost unsettlingly so. “Nikki’s got her Lonelyfans page. And because of it, thousands, if not millions of men around the world fantasize and dream about her… if she understood how to use her spirit self, she could draw life from so, so many dreams. It scares even me just to think about it.”
“And you… that drug of yours… Obsidian Rush… It did something to me, Cassie. It took my pleasure to even further heights, because it made me more… me.” Lexi giggles. “It’s definitely why The Foremother is so interested in you. In that moment last night, when I was on Rush, I was as powerful as my mother, maybe even more. No man has ever died from being with me, the way they sometimes do with my mother… they’d just be a little groggy the next day. But with your drug, I was able to take so much more from him.”
Lexi’s grip on Cassie’s hands tightens as she continues. “And that means, our kind can use men to extend our lifespans even further than we previously thought. I’ll just have to practice… to make sure I don’t kill them every time. But even if I do, they’re cattle for us. Nothing more.”
Cassie silently watches her cousin as she then skips around, shouting praises to The Foremother, and sighs. Lexi Kade was a very strange woman, but she made a point that Cassie knew she wouldn’t be able to move on from. Just what would her organisation be in a hundred years? What sort of life could she build for herself and Nikki with that sort of time? She had to know.