Eddie lay in bed relaxing, his latest secretary beside him. Natalie had worked for him less than three months and had been sleeping with him for two of them. He had picked her out of the secretarial pool entirely on her looks and had been surprised by her actual talent. An inch under six foot her height belied her Asian heritage she lay facing him her raven hair framing her face long dark lashes closed in sleep.
Eddie reached out and cupped an olive skinned breast squeezing gently till she stirred in her sleep.
"Mmph is it morning Eddie," she asked wiping her eyes sleepily.
"No but I was awake and thought we might like to have some more fun," he said teasing her nipple idly.
Eddie was never one to consider the feelings of others; he couldn't sleep the events of the last night running through 7his mind so there was little point letting the girl keep sleeping when she could be entertaining him. Just imagining Eve and Rachel disappearing together into Lillith was enough to make him rise to attention again and he was just sliding himself closer when a shrill alarm sounded throughout the mansion.
"Bloody hell that's the cellar alarm," Eddie snapped in surprise.
"Why would you have an alarm on your cellar," the girl asked owlishly still half asleep.
"None of your business, now wait right here I won't be long" he replied getting out of bed and rushing from the room without even pausing to grab a robe.
"Asshole," Natalie muttered rolling over and trying to muffle the noise of the alarm with a pillow, "If you weren't so rich I'd drop your ugly ass in a second."
Eddie reached the lift in record time and after hammering repeatedly on the button for the cellar he paced the floor as he began to descend. If they were out Eve's timing was off by almost a week, but Eve had never been wrong before. Almost wishing his former head of genetics was still about to strangle Eddie ran out of the lift the second the doors opened.
The old wine cellar was a mess, the hidden door to Lillith's chambers had been opened and beyond the gaping hole, Eddie could see the shattered remains of the glass wall that looked out onto the inner chamber.
Fuck Lillith must have made a break for it Eddie thought to himself as he surveyed the devastation, he didn't think for a second his pet's hatchlings could have done this, strength like this certainly wasn't in the design specifications. No, it must have been Lillith trying to escape to lay her latest eggs.
Climbing over the shattered remnants of ancient wine racks Eddie entered Lillith's viewing room. The comfortable couches had been shredded and the airlock had been smashed open, every cupboard was smashed, the freezers he kept her food in were empty, the doors having been ripped clear away. What little light in the room came from the flickering lights of the main chamber.
"She must have trashed the environmental controls, damn that's going to be difficult to fix" he muttered.
Through the shattered glass he could see the remnants of broken trees snapped like kindling and the smooth stones Lillith liked to bask on thrown into weird positions.
A sudden crash came from a side room on the other side of the cellar. Quickly leaving the ruins of his pets temper tantrum he picked his way across the darkened room and into the chamber that held his less impressive pets.
Wrecked glass tanks were everywhere, every snake in his collection seemed to be loose on the floor.
Gingerly he began to walk across the room heading for the broken door to the environmental control room. Some of the snakes in his collection were extremely dangerous and a few like the small one he had picked up in Australia didn't even have effective anti-venom so fast acting was their bites. Most of the snakes he noticed were quite happy to coil up together in a huge writhing pile and Lucifer his biggest python was happily swallowing a smaller snake that looked to be a spitting cobra.
The camera room was in ruins. Sparking electronics shorted and buzzed and the whole place smelled of ozone and reptiles. More importantly, the air vent in the ceiling was now a twisted wreck on the floor.
"Great you're in the vent system now how am I going to get you out," Eddie growled in frustration.
Just fantastic, if Lillith didn't come out he'd have to send someone in there after her, which meant he'd either have to buy them off or arrange an 'accident' before they could talk.
Eddie made his way back to the lift and hit the button for the fourth floor, no need to bring things with Natalie to a head by letting her see Lillith before he was ready for her to get eaten. He was still trying to think up a good enough reason to get her to leave as he entered the bedroom and stopped in shock, the bed was overturned broken bits of ornament scattered the floor but there was no sign of Lillith or his girlfriend.
"Fuck," Eddie swore angrily, Lillith had a month to go before she would be able to perform again the little bimbo would just go straight to her stomach with no chance of coming back and worse yet it wasn't even on film.
He was just about to leave the room when he spotted something gleaming on the floor by his foot, kneeling down he saw it was a delicate silvery red scale like a piece of beaten copper. Lillith's scales were black!