Keto's Tale: A Reverse Harem Romance (Monsters and Gargoyles Book 2) by Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:Lacey Carter Andersen [Andersen, Lacey Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phoenix Press LLC
Published: 2019-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Keto

“Don’t hurt him,” I tell the gargoyles, then turn back to my creature.

Even from our camp on the island, I’d felt its mind reaching out for me. I’d felt its fear so deeply within my soul that it’d set me in a panic.

“What is it, Haskul?” I ask my Hydra.

In my mind I hear its answer; it’s been searching for me since the battle with the mermaid-hunters. And then it heard of my death.

“It’s okay,” I tell him. “I’m all right.”

One of its heads lean down, and Clark leaps onto its neck.

“No!” I shout.

Haskul roars and bucks Clark from his back. The hyrdra’s second head darts out and it chomps down on Clark. The gargoyle dangles from my creature’s mouth, and a scream tears from my throat.

“No, don’t! Please!”

My creature is trying to eat him. But the stone man can’t be bitten or swallowed whole. At last, my Hydra spits him out, and he goes tumbling into the sea.

Suddenly, the other three gargoyles are on my creature. Punching, lashing out. The little hydra makes a sound, a crying that hurts me down to my soul.

I know tears are streaming down my face. None of them understand. The gargoyles think he’s trying to hurt me, and he thinks they’re attacking us.

If I can’t stop this soon, someone’s going to get seriously hurt. Or even die.

Calling the waves to me, they pull back further and further from the shore, then come crashing back, smashing into the battling males. The gargoyles go flying off my hydra and I leap forward.

The gargoyles are scattered on the beach, and Haskul is struggling against the waves.

“Stop it right this minute!” I shout.

My hydra makes a sad whine.

The gargoyles leap to their feet.

I move yet again to stand between them, my arms raised. “I’m a fucking mermaid! Do you really think there’s a sea creature alive that can harm me?”

They all freeze, looking from me to my hydra.

Turning my back to them, I coo at my creature as his heads lower once more. His eyes never leave the gargoyles. I pet his heads and he purrs as I gently study his bruises from the gargoyles.

There are so many of them.

My teeth clench, and I whirl toward them. “What were you thinking?”

Clark snarls back. “It’s a monster!”

Just the word enrages me, and I advance on him. “Explain to me exactly what’s the difference between a monster and a sea creature?”

Anger flashes in his eyes. “I’ve never heard of a dolphin destroying boats and eating people, have you? But that… that’s a fucking hydra!”

I roll my eyes. “He’s a baby. He was scared the sea dragons had killed me. He sensed me near, but couldn’t reach me on the island.”

Some of the anger dims in Clark’s eyes. “Maybe next time say that before you just take off.”

“Well, how was I supposed to know you’d come after me?”

Max speaks, breaking into our argument. “We thought something was wrong.”

My pulse starts to slow. “Just… don’t ever hurt any of my creatures again.

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