Mercy's Rise: An Enemies to Lovers Reverse Harem Romance (Guild of Assassins Book 3) by Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:Lacey Carter Andersen [Andersen, Lacey Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phoenix Press LLC
Published: 2022-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

10

Mercy

It's late when I wake up, sweating and shaking. I'd had a nightmare about my phoenix mom being chained to a chair beneath this castle. She was screaming and screaming for me to save her, but no matter how hard I tried to reach her, she only got further away.

I shift a little and realize that Rian is still wrapped around me. I reach for Bash, but find that side of the bed cold and empty. For a moment my heart pangs, but then I remember how he’d kissed me goodbye, apoligzed, and tucked me in before leaving the night before. He might not be here right now, but he hadn’t just disappeared on me after our night tonight.

Who would have thought I’d ever wake up smiling and thinking of Bash? Then my smile fades as my dream presses back into my mind.

Gently, I remove Rian’s arm from around my waist and climb out of bed. I'm already getting dressed and putting on my daggers before I fully understand what I'm doing. No, I won't be freeing the prisoners tonight, no matter how much I want to, but neither can I keep laying in a bed sleeping when people were going through hell so close to me.

Glancing back one more time at Rian, I can't help but smile. Everyone around here might see him as some badass vampire prince, but I'd always see him in another light. Even if instead of marrying him I just ran away one day, accepting a life where I would always be running, but at least be free to make my own choices.

Not that I want to think about a life without my men at my side.

I look away from him, then slip down the hall. I have no clue where I'm going except that I'm headed outside. Something about this place or these people made me feel... imprisoned, in a way I can't explain. Like instead of seeing myself as some wealthy guest here, I felt like the people in cages, I just didn't have bars on my prison cell.

Which is stupid. No one is forcing me to stay here. And I feel like an ass even relating to the blood slaves. What they've been through, I can only imagine.

Guards patrol everywhere, but I stretch out my senses and do my best to avoid being seen by all of them. I slip into a library on the bottom floor, find a window, and crawl out. More guards patrol the outside of the castle, but I slip past them too. I'm about to just run like hell for the trees when I spot the stables nearly tucked out of view to one side of the house. The stables, where Ares's father spends most of his time, and just beyond that, I know is the home Ares grew up in. A little cottage nestled near the stables and the trees.

I've never seen it, but Ares's has told me so many stories about the stables and his home over the years that I feel like I have.

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