The Monster Of Selkirk Book 2: The Heart Of The Forest by C.E. Clayton

Author:C.E. Clayton [Clayton, C.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DevilDog Press
Published: 2017-10-17T05:00:00+00:00

Rosslyn landed with a thud, holding her face where Tallis had struck. She was not sure what hurt more, the punch itself, or the fact that her dearest friend had struck her at all.

Tallis seemed to think she had wanted to kill Donovan, and that she had simply been waiting for the opportune moment to strike and took advantage of a bad situation in order to do so. Tallis did not seem to understand that Rosslyn did not want to kill Donovan, but that he had ceased to be the knight they all knew and loved the moment the demon had entered his soul.

Deep down, Rosslyn knew she should forgive Tallis. She was in shock, as were they all, and she needed someone to blame for Donovan being dead. She couldn’t blame the tremps who still lay on the ground around them staring vacantly up into the sky, their eyes still glowing. And she could not blame the demon, for it had perished with Donovan. Therefore, she needed to blame the woman who had loosened the bolt.

The fact that Tallis was so blinded by her pain that she could not see the kindness in Rosslyn’s actions, hurt more than she was willing to admit. But as Tallis’s glare of anger intensified, Rosslyn, too, lost her patience.

Rosslyn darted to her feet in a most ungraceful manner and pushed Tallis hard enough to send her falling to the ground as well. Planting her hands on her hips, it was her turn to scowl down at her friend. “Oi! Don’t you dare, Tallis. Don’t you dare blame this on me. It’s not my fault you’re too blinded by your own shock and heartbreak to see the mercy I gave. Donovan was gone, completely consumed by that demon, and was in excruciating pain. I ended that for him. I made sure the last memory you’d have of Donovan wouldn’t be one tainted by a bloody monster’s words. So, you can be sad all you like that he’s gone, but don’t you dare think that I wanted to kill him.”

She watched Tallis’s sea green eyes turn cold as she slowly got to her feet again. It was a calm anger, an anger that Rosslyn had never seen before, and it sent shivers up her spine. Tallis frightened Rosslyn sometimes, but she would never tell anyone that she was scared of a woman who looked more like a fragile, if beautiful, girl. Instead, she tried to hold Tallis’s cold gaze as if it were nothing.

After a long moment, Tallis’s eyes narrowed ever so slightly as she turned her back on Rosslyn. Then she said with a voice that was uncharacteristically devoid of any inflection or emotion, “There must have been another way, a better way.”

Rosslyn screwed up her face in both confusion and indignation as she blurted out, “Another way for what? To destroy the blighted creature? We had no chance to free ourselves to properly fight before that thing would have taken you. A way

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