Silver Borne - (Mercy 05) by Patricia Briggs

Author:Patricia Briggs [Briggs, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-10T18:15:39.364000+00:00

“So you chose to defy Adam’s orders because you disagreed with him,” said Ben. “He picked you to watch Mercy because he trusted you to take care of business while he dealt with the pack—and you betrayed that trust.”

I was grateful that Ben kept talking.

Mary Jo was one of the people in Adam’s pack I’d thought was my friend. Not because a debt the fae owed me had kept her from dying a little while ago . . . I suspected that had been a mixed blessing, like most fairy gifts. But we’d spent a lot of hours in each other’s company because Adam liked to use her as a guard when he felt I needed one.

Mary Jo wanted me dead. That was what that look had been about.

It was such a shock that I might have missed her answer to Ben’s question if she hadn’t sounded so defensive.

“It wasn’t like that. She was safe enough; she left with Samuel. There’s nothing I could do that would protect her better than Samuel could.”

“So why didn’t you stop the arsonists?”

Arsonists? There had been arsonists?

“I wasn’t ordered to protect her place. She wasn’t in there.”

Ben smiled in such satisfaction that I realized he hadn’t known there were arsonists either. “Who were they, Mary Jo?”

“Fae,” she said. “No one I knew. Just more trouble she’s bringing to my pack’s door. If they wanted to burn down Mercy’s house, what did I care?” She looked at me, and said viciously, “I wish they’d burned it up with you in it.”

“Ben!”

How he managed to stop his hand before it hit her face, I don’t know. But he did. She’d have wiped the floor with him afterward. She might be nominally below him in the pack hierarchy, but that was only because unmated women were at the bottom of the pack.

She wanted to fight him. I could see it in her face.

I couldn’t move with Adam mostly on my lap. “That’s enough.” I kept my voice soft.

Ben was panting, his hands shaking in rage . . . or pain. His hands were really damaged.

“He could have died,” Ben said to me, his voice rough with the wolf. “He could have died because this—” He stopped himself.

And the violence was gone from Mary Jo’s posture as quickly as if someone had hit a switch. Her eyes brightened with tears. “Don’t you think I know that? He came running from the house, calling her name. I tried to tell him it was too late, but he just pul ed the wall apart and jumped through the hole he’d made. He didn’t even hear me.”

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