I'd heard Ruthie, but I still didn't think there was anything quite like Lilith around. "She needed to die."
And I was the only one who could kill her.
"You betrayed my trust, Lizzy."
"Then we're even."
"Baby," he murmured, "even is something we can never be. "
I guessed he was going to be as forgiving about my betrayal as I'd been about his. That hurt, but I deserved it.
"You don't understand what you've done," he said. "There'll be consequences."
"There always are."
"Not like this."
He looked so haggard, so beaten down and sad, I wasn't sure what to do, except what I did best. Move on.
"Are you going to come back with me?" I asked.
Or will I have to make you? I thought.
His gaze was drawn in the direction of that strange howling that had earlier answered my furious call. There was something out there. A whole lot of somethings.
"Yeah," Jimmy said. "I'm coming."
The job was what mattered; Jimmy had known that long before I had.
"But I'm starting to think that—"
His voice faded; what I saw in his face scared me. I stepped forward and put a hand on his shoulder. What he hadn't said whispered through my mind and came straight out of my mouth.
"No matter what we do," I murmured. "Apocalypse happens."