Filed To Story: Traded To The Lycan King Novel (Colette & Merikh) by MG Wattsons
“Oh… It’s just that…..Earlier you said we would-,”
“I’m sorry,” He exhales, cutting me off. “There is a lot to attend to for tomorrow, and I still have to figure out who the other traitor is.”
My eyebrows shoot up.
“The other traitor? There is more than one?” I ask and he scoffs, shaking his head.
“Seems I am up to my n*ck in them lately.” He mutters. “I will see you tomorrow for the official introduction to the pack.”
“Oh, I see.” I sigh, not even trying to veil my disappointment, but he seems to be lost in his thoughts again. “Then I’ll just…..go.”
Merikh doesn’t fight me on it and my chest aches as I wander away from him, hating how he doesn’t even look at me once. I should go back and tell him. Shit, I know I should have told him right out the gate ab I can’t even remember how I made it back to my room, my mind moving a million miles a minute and my emotions completely wrecked. Here I thought all this time I loved Grady, that I had felt that earth shatteri Yet when that bond broke, when I left with Merikh and felt what it was like to be treated like more than a maid. More than someone who could never have anything.did I know what love was? Was it just me feel know what actual love was?
“You are back,” Penny says, sounding relieved as she peeks around the bedroom door. I give her a strange look as she pushes into the room, closing the door behind her. “Uh…yeah…”
“It’s just that Percy mind linked me…he said that you may have…had a rough walk. “
My stomach drops and I can feel my face grow pale. There is no looking her in the eyes. Is that what Merikh meant by not being alone? Does he know too? All the terrible ways he could kill Grady come flooding into my mind and bile rises in my th “D-did Percy…say anything else?” I ask, finally lifting my eyes to meet hers. Penny watches me for a moment. before nodding her head.
“Are you okay?” She whispers as tears dot my eyes.
“Why the hell did he come here?” I ask her softly as tears fall from my eyes. A frustrated groan tumbles from my lips as I move to the bed to sit. Everything feels wrong.
“Well, what did he want?” Penny asks, leaning on the dresser across from me.
“He wanted me to run away with him,” I scoff, wiping at my eyes annoyed. “He thought he was coming to save me from the big bad alpha of death.”
“Do you need saving?” Penny asks.
At first I think she is joking, but the longer I watch her, the more I realize she is serious. Does she think I am here because Merikh is forcing me? That I would truly run just because an opportunity arises? “No, and I sure as shit don’t want it.” I say honestly.
“And did you tell him that?”
“Yes! I told him to leave, and then we argued and he got mad at me and he…” I pause, remembering the moment his lips hit mine. Cracked and weirdly wet. The lips I once had longed for felt wrong, gross against my skin.
“He what?” Penny’s voice rises as she stands up straight, ready to go on the attack, murder written all over her face. “Did he hurt you? Why didn’t Percy jump in?”
“He k*ssed me,” I whimper, pushing my hands into my hair, afraid to look at her. What if she hates me after this?
‘Oh, oh shit…” she murmurs.
Penny, I was stunned. I didn’t know what to do and for a second I just stood there. Then I realized what was happening, and I slapped him.” I rush out, the memory still too fresh. “Wait, you slapped him?” Penny asks, sounding surprised. “You didn’t k*ss him back?”
“Of course I didn’t k*ss him back,” I snap at her, a little offended.
“Well, that is good.” She says, with a relieved chuckle as she plops down next to me.
“I don’t know what to do, Penny.” I groan, covering my face with my hands. How does someone go from no one wanting you to two men?
“What do you mean? You aren’t planning to leave, are you?” Her voice trembles slightly and I frown at her.
“Seriously? Do you really think I would leave?” I ask. She shrugs.
“You are my Luna, and I’d consider you a friend but I’ve only known you three weeks…” She reminds me with a half frown. Penny has a point, but it doesn’t change things. Three weeks may seem like nothing, but it so much more.
“I care about Merikh,” I mutter, my cheeks pink. “I like him, and I asked him to mark me…..”
“Then what are you going on about not knowing what to do?” Penny’s brows knit together in confusion.
“When do I tell Merikh?”
“Tell him? About your ex-mate k*ssing you?” She laughs sardonically.
“Yes,” I say, furrowing my brows.
“Oof. That I don’t know.” She blows out a huff of air, looking as perplexed as I feel. “If it were me, I wouldn’t…”
“I need to be honest with him, and I want to tell him, but…he told me before he would kill Grady…I can’t imagine what he’d do to him now…” I admit and she winces, looking away.
“Won’t be pretty,” she sighs heavily. “But the truth is important, so I would say sooner rather than later.”
“You don’t think Merikh would actually kill Grady, do you? If I told him?”
“Hell yeah he would. Like, without a second thought.” She says.