Beyond the Grasslands: Nika and Thorin (Mirage Islands Mates Book 2) by Christine Michelle

Author:Christine Michelle [Michelle, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moonlit Dreams Publications
Published: 2024-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Miriam’s smug smirk and narrowed eyes stirred something in my blood. It called out for vengeance, but that would have to wait until we could claw the truth out of her. “You think you have the upper hand?”

“I know I do. It’s hard to be wrong when you have a goddess on your side.”

“You think Selene sanctioned everything you’ve done.”

Miriam spat at my feet. “She is a false Goddess. Selene is nothing more than a bottom-feeder who attempts to play cupid and fails more than she succeeds.”

“Is that so?” I asked. Miriam narrowed her eyes impossibly lower.

“You think this is all a game. We’re supposed to meet the one the gods chose for us and live out some crazy happily ever after, but if that was the case, then why are we always at war with other packs?”

“What the hell are you talking about, Miriam? We haven’t even been involved in a pack war in two generations.”

“Only because She watches over us. Only She can offer us that peace. Your Selene is nothing compared to her.”

“Someone ate too many of those human fruit loops,” Warren commented.

“Uh huh,” I murmured. “And you think you’re special enough that a Goddess has come to you, told you her plans, and you’re what?” I chuckled. “Let me guess, Miriam… You think you’re her warrior put in our pack to set some great misdeed to rights?”

“I am the misdeed!” Miriam shouted. “Johann was mine to start with. He was always meant to be mine!” Spittle flew from the woman’s mouth as the shock of what she implied landed right in my gut. A flash of my mother, suffering with a pain no one could pinpoint came to mind. Miriam laughed. “Yeah, you finally understand. “Your father and I were together for years before that whore you call your mother came along and enticed him away from me with the lure of the moon-blessed union.”

She spat again. “She was never supposed to find him. The Goddess told me that she would never reach the pack, but something happened to distract her and the whore got in, and then she pulled my love away from me.”

“My father was faithful to my mother.” It was a statement, but also a demand. I needed to hear that he was the man I always thought him to be.

Miriam cackled. “Yeah, he tried to be. After you were no longer underfoot, it became easier to win him back to my side. I’m sure you noticed how sick that bitch got.”

I pushed forward and wrapped my hand around Miriam’s throat. “Lies!” I spat in her face. She shook her head almost imperceptibly, since my tight grip didn’t allow much movement. She told no lies. I could smell the truth of her words in the air around us.

“Ease up, or we’ll never get to the bottom of this,” Warren commanded as he placed his hand over mine that was wrapped around Miriam’s throat.

I did as he asked and stepped back out of reach.

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