Shade's Secret: A Reverse Harem Romance (Monsters and Gargoyles Book 6) by Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:Lacey Carter Andersen [Andersen, Lacey Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phoenix Press LLC
Published: 2020-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Elliot

I pace, my heavy chain dragging along the ground as I walk. Shade has been gone too long, and now I’m left wondering who she killed. Was it someone innocent? Someone who didn’t deserve it?

She says she only kills the guilty, but I don’t trust Lord Drac, not one bit.

As I turn to pace again, the shade is suddenly there before me. She glances in my direction, but there’s something unreadable in her gaze. Not speaking to me, she goes to the tub and turns it on, filling it with bubble bath again.

“Are you okay?” I ask. “You were gone a long time.”

She hesitates. “I met all your gargoyles.”

My heart races. “And what happened?”

“We agreed to a plan. I will find a way to take the barrier down, so that they can come and rescue you, and they won’t fight anyone in the castle.”

I’m actually surprised, and happy. Part of me could never imagine them making such a deal, but I’m glad they did. As much as I wanted to kill these vampires and prove myself to my father, I’ve realized I also don’t want to hurt the shade. And a battle here would hurt her.

She’d have to pick a side, and it wouldn’t be ours.

And now, I don’t think I could hurt her.

She stands from beside the tub and strips off a dress splattered with blood. Then she steps into the water. My gaze moves between her body and the bubbles.

“Who did you kill?” I ask.

Her eyes close, and I swear she shivers. “A woman. A human woman, this time. She was creating some kind of sacrifice for a ritual. She had gravely injured another woman.” She pauses for a long moment. “The victim died before my feet, and there was nothing I could do to help her. My only comfort is knowing that her attacker will be punished for eternity.”

This shade is the monster we were sent to kill. A person who was trying to save an innocent. A person who seems shaken remembering what happened.

She’s not who I expected. Not in any way.

“Does it actually make you feel better to know what the attacker will experience in the Underworld?”

She sinks down a little deeper in the water. “I don’t know, but I promised the dying woman that she would be avenged, and perhaps that’s enough. It doesn’t matter that I hate the Underworld, that I hate bringing people there. All that matters is that maybe the woman left this world knowing that her death wouldn’t go unpunished.”

“That would be hard to do,” I tell her, moving a little closer to the tub.

She shrugs her shoulders. “No harder than a judge sentencing a man to life in jail. Or a jury giving the death penalty. All things Lord Drac has explained to me.” Her purple-eyed gaze sweeps to me. “Or any harder than a gargoyle killing someone to protect the innocent.”

My chest feels tight for a long minute. I’d never really seen us that way. But everything she says has the strangest ring of truth.

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