Marked By Lies: A Reverse Harem Series (The Marked Series Book 1) by Paige Orr

Author:Paige Orr [Orr, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Morpheus

I can see that something is eating away at Melissa, but I’m stuck on how fucking amazing this girl is. Anyone else would be falling apart at what she went through, and yet here she is putting herself down. What she managed to achieve is astounding, defeating a Harpy with the correct weapons is difficult enough, never mind doing it with a gun. On top of that, as confusing as her scent is to us, she's still only human.

I can tell that she's beating herself up about it all, but she should be giving herself a pat on the fucking back. She's lucky to have got out of that shit alive. Hell, it was touch and go for a while. We were just lucky that Annika knew someone who knew the right ritual to perform. If it wasn't for Isabella’s help, then we would have been standing over a corpse instead of talking about what happened.

That thought knocks away some of the cheerfulness that I've been feeling since her eyes opened. This woman, who could have easily told us to go and fuck ourselves when we asked for her help, was kind enough to agree, could have died because of us. I guess earlier I was just so preoccupied with making sure she was alright and then watching her while she recovered, that it didn't fully sink in how close she was to not making it.

One thing is for sure, we shouldn't have put a human in the way of danger in the first place. Hopefully, the others have come to this realization as well, because something tells me that Melissa won't walk away from this case without a fight. Putting herself in harm’s way for people that she doesn’t even know, makes no fucking sense though.

I watch her closely as she fidgets, refusing to meet anyone's gaze, and I know this strong-willed woman won’t back down from helping innocent people. I just wish I could make her see things from our point of view. Here’s a woman who isn't connected to this in any way, who was seriously injured because of us. Of course, we wouldn’t want her to keep going, that would be purely selfish of us. Seeing that none of the others know what to say to her, I decide to take matters into my own hands.

“I don’t know if the others feel the same way as I do, but I can’t in good conscience let you keep putting yourself in danger. It was fucking lucky that there was someone who could get to you in time to do what needed to be done to stop the poison killing you.”

I can tell that what I’ve said has pissed her off, but one of us had to say it. I don’t think any of us could live with ourselves if she died trying to help our people. The Fae are known for being proud creatures who don’t like to owe debts to people, and the life debt that we owe Melissa now is astonishing.

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