Medusa's Destiny: A WhyChoose Romance (Monsters and Gargoyles Book 1) by Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:Lacey Carter Andersen [Andersen, Lacey Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phoenix Press LLC
Published: 2019-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Medusa

In my entire fucking life, I’ve never been the kind of person to back down from something. My reaction to this temple shocked me to my core. I’d known I’d avoided Greece because of the bad memories. I knew I avoided boats, islands, and the ocean because of my years spent in exile.

I didn’t know that coming here would cause the memories to rush at me like that, pushing me into a full-blown panic attack.

And man am I embarrassed. It’s been thousands of years since I was a human. It’s been hundreds of years since I realized that I took no fault in what happened to me. It was the fucked-up system of the gods, a system where gods raped whomever they wanted, and goddesses punished the victims as if they held the blame.

I want to enter this stupid temple to show that I’m over what happened, to show that I’m stronger than they think. Stealing the necklace? I know how much Athena loves her little trophy. The idea of taking it from such a bitch makes me happier than anyone could imagine.

But still, the risk of getting caught and punished again would keep any sane person from entering the temple. The thing is, if these gargoyles decide to go in fighting, Athena will know instantly, and they’ll be tortured and killed in ways they could never imagine.

The goddess of war is a cruel woman with an ego bigger than her temple.

I reach the sidewalk leading up to the temple and slip in with the tourists. A couple look at my chained hands, but no one says a word. I sense the gargoyles behind me, and I make sure my steps are measured. I don’t need them to know the emotions this place boils up inside me.

My thoughts slip to Marcus. He has short hair, a military cut, and dark eyes. His body is far more muscular than the other gargoyles, but in a really controlled way. For some reason, I can picture him being the kind of person who plans every second of his life.

I instantly dislike him. People like that are control-freaks, and control-freaks and I don’t get along.

There’s no doubt he’s hot, but... I look down at my cuffs and remember how hard they’d squeezed, so hard it felt like my hands were going to be torn from my wrists. A little blood darkened the edges of the metal, and I imagined my wrists were swollen and nasty looking.

And then there was my face...

This guy was an asshole, and I wondered how he would complicate things from here on out. I had no clue, but my gut told me that his presence wasn’t good.

“Stop,” Marcus growls in my ear, grabbing my elbow a little too roughly.

I jerk my arm to pull away from him, but he spins me around.

Instantly, we come face-to-face. His expression is neutral, but there’s something in his eyes that makes me feel like I’m being judged.

I feel him touch my wrists, and then the handcuffs drop.

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