Melisende And The Star Warrior by Marie Dry

Author:Marie Dry [Dry, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-29T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Two days later, Melisende studied the information on the scrolls and compared it to the facts on the computer. The door opened and the scroll she’d been reading dropped to the floor with a soft clatter. Zain entered through the big doors, carrying a round priest in one fist. The priest looked truly miserable and Melisende could sympathise. He must think the devil’s minion had come to take him to hell.

“What have you done?” She rushed forward. “Please, put him down.”

The priest focused watery eyes on her and she could see the relief on his face to see another human. “Please help—”

“Quiet, you,” Zain said, and shook him like a dog.

She clapped her hands over her mouth. Never in all her life had she seen anyone treat a priest like that. Melisende thought she could hear the poor man’s bones rattle. “You cannot treat a man of God in this fashion. Please, put him down.” The priest had to be uncomfortable to be carried by the back of his robe, the way a dog is carried by the scruff of its neck.

Zain lifted the priest higher and gave him a considering look. The priest stared back with round, terrified eyes. “If you run, or insult my breeder, by the time I’m finished with you, you will beg to die.” He slowly lowered the poor man to the ground, the strength it took to do that immense.

Melisende and the priest gasped in unison when he called her a breeder. She clasped her hands over her burning cheeks. How dare he humiliate her like this? And in front of a man of God.

“Why did you bring him here? This is not the priest who whipped me.”

“I know he is not the one. I will find that one and punish him,” he said in such a sinister voice, both she and the priest took a step back. Zain continued: “I brought the fat one to marry us.”

Melisende didn’t know if she should try to get the doors open again and grab the priest and run, or apologise to the poor man who now muttered a prayer and crossed himself.

“If he marries us, I won’t kill him,” Zain added, pointedly. He did not show expression, but she had a feeling he was enjoying himself.

The priest looked ready to faint. The poor man probably never imagined that when he woke that morning, he’d end up in a silver room, and be asked to marry a green-and gold-demon, to a human woman. “You cannot threaten to kill a priest. Your soul will be condemned for eternity.” Zain did not look in the least concerned over that.

The priest pulled himself straight, and shook out his black wool robe. “Before I consider performing this marriage, I insist on talking to this woman alone.” He tried to sound brave, but his voice trembled as much as his body.

Melisende touched Zain’s arm, feeling the muscles flex under her hand. “I would like to talk to him, please, Star Warrior,” she said, afraid Zain might shake the priest like a dog again.

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