Rise to Live [Rise of the Changelings, Book 7] by Lynn Hagen

Author:Lynn Hagen [Hagen, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781622422012
Google: 1QW38ue0lQsC
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Marco took in a deep breath as he sat on the toilet seat of the motel they had found for Bryson to take his stitches out. He was scared to death to look into the mirror. His hands were unsteady as he ran them through his hair.

What if he looked hideous now and Remus regretted mating him? His entire body was covered in scars. The least that bastard Jayson could have done was leave his face alone. But that was the first thing the man had attacked.

Marco still felt the pain of that knife as it sliced through his skin. Marco still had nightmares about it. He would wake up in a cold sweat only to realize he wasn’t in that concrete room and Jayson was nowhere around.

“I can do this,” he whispered to himself. “I can look in the mirror.” He needed to stop being a fucking pussy and just get it over with. Marco pushed from the toilet and then sat back down.

“Fuck,” he said as he gritted his teeth. Finding out if he was a sliced-up freak was harder than he thought. The bravery just wasn’t forthcoming. No matter what he said to himself, his body would not take the few steps to the mirror.

“You all right in there?” Remus asked from the other side of the door.

Marco tucked his hands under his armpits and tried to steady his breathing. He wasn’t all right. And if he was a freak from what Jayson had done to him, he would never be all right. It was bad enough he was small for a leopard. Now he was ugly as well. It wasn’t like he was a drop-dead gorgeous model to begin with.

“Fuck you, fate,” he gritted out as he sat there with clammy hands and the beginning of a headache.

“Marco?”

Wiping his sweaty palms on his pants, Marco once again pushed from the edge of the toilet. He took a step, and then another until he was standing in front of the sink. But his head was still down.

“What’s going on?” Remus asked from behind him. The guy had let himself in, and as angry at fate as Marco was, he couldn’t find it in himself to shout at Remus to get out. The changeling was the only one he had now. Marco wasn’t going to be foolish enough to push him away. He just hoped Remus didn’t run when he saw Marco’s face. As soon as Bryson was finished taking the stitches out, Marco had hurried to the bathroom.

“Marco, talk to me.”

His mate slid his arms around Marco’s waist and pulled his back to Remus’s chest. “Why are you just standing here?”

“How bad do I look?” he asked Remus. “Am I a hideous monster?”

“What are you talking about?” Remus asked. “The scars?”

“Yeah, the scars,” Marco said bitterly. “Answer me.”

Remus’s arms tightened around him. Marco knew it was from the way he had spoken to Remus. Marco had never been bitter with his best friend before. “Why don’t you look for yourself?”

Marco shook his head.

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