Briar: A Reverse Harem Fairytale Romance (The Happily Never After Series Book 5) by Plum Pascal & H.P. Mallory

Author:Plum Pascal & H.P. Mallory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

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It happens near dusk, as we’re readying for supper and then bed. Fate has been kind enough to provide a roof over our heads, at last. The home is old, clearly abandoned, and a shell of its former self. It lists hard to one side, the roof buckling beneath the elements. Still, the front room is intact and the hearth is usable. I’m preparing the fare Payne caught for supper. Nouille has stretched out on the floor, basking in the warmth of the fire. Payne has curled in the opposite corner, with Briar in his lap.

I can’t help the flash of envy I feel upon seeing them.

Just twenty miles to go and we’ll reach the City of Secrets. We could make the journey tonight if we pressed. If one of us carried Briar in our arms, we could use our full speed. We’ve adopted a rather gimpy pace in order to allow Briar to keep her pride. She already feels like the weak link in our not-so-merry band of misfits. She’s wrong, of course. She’s anything but weak. Truth be told, I’ve never seen powers like hers. She’s destined for greatness. Well, of course she is—she’s Chosen, after all.

Nouille and I have grown progressively weaker as the days go by, so much so that I’ve begun to worry we’ve contracted something and are growing ill. What diseases to the dead get? Some sort of necrotic plague that rots one from the inside out? I can’t see any sores or feel maggots wriggling in my belly, but it doesn’t mean they’re not there.

Payne and Briar are whispering conspiratorially to each other. I can tell already they’re going to slip off to fuck before supper. He’s nuzzling her neck, placing kisses along the pale column of her throat, drawing gasps from her when the edge of his fangs skim her skin. I’m midway through roasting a hare on a spit when my body goes entirely limp, the muscles slackening with alarming speed. My legs go out beneath me and it’s all I can do not to fall in the fire.

“Veseo!” Briar screams at the same time Nouille turns to face me.

The world spins rapidly like a top, the muted colors of the night streaking together in shades of black, gray, and navy. My head strikes a rock on the way down, but I barely feel the pain of it. I can make out the muffled thump when Nouille hits the ground moments later.

Briar scrambles from Payne’s lap with a cry of alarm, running toward us. Before she can reach us, however, the world goes black.

I don’t know how long I’m out but I come to with a heavy weight pressing onto my chest, crushing the air from my lungs.

I die without even getting a glimpse of her face.

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