Marked By Lies: A Reverse Harem Series (The Marked Series Book 1) by Paige Orr (best english books to read for beginners .txt) 📕

I just don’t see why I should judge someone for something that makes them happy. I’ve always thought that those who have to put people down for their sexuality or their race are usually so unhappy with themselves that they have to make everyone else just as miserable.

The world would be a much better place if people concerned themselves with their own lives instead of the lives of those around them. Over the years, I’ve become used to the way that some humans look at me, but thankfully, the large majority are more accepting.

I feel like sitting here doing nothing isn’t helping me stay calm in any way, so I decide to write a list of all the things we have managed to find out. Thankfully, this manages to keep me distracted for a while, and by the time that I’ve written everything down, I’m once again surprised by everything that Melissa discovered.

She is really fucking good at her job. She came into this knowing nothing but a list of names, and she has managed to find out why they were taken, and even managed to catch members of the cult in the middle of setting things up for their ritual. It truly is amazing how a human woman, who’s only magic that I know of is communing with the dead, has solved something that Fae with centuries of experience couldn’t.

We were all running around chasing our tails for over a month, and yet Melissa figured it all out in a day. I know for a fact that it couldn’t have been easy for her, what with the Harpy attack and all, but she took it all in stride and kept pushing on. She has definitely earned my respect, and once all of this is over, I will have to repay the kindness of what she has done for us.

Well, that is if we manage to find everyone in time, including her. It’s maddening how as soon as Melissa is out of the picture, we have no idea how to handle everything. You would think with how many times that we have faced off with the cult we would understand how they work a little better.

This time they have done things so differently, which is why it took us so long to figure out that they were behind it all. In the past, they haven’t been afraid to let us know what they were up to, but this time they have done everything possible to make sure we didn’t find them out.

There is a first time for everything I suppose, but seeing that they have been working with a Witch is like a shock to the system. Usually they don’t care what supernatural race you are from, they would still persecute you, so what has changed their minds this time? It’s not like any of the supernaturals have changed. We all still go about our lives the same way, but then we never did give them reason in the past to come after us, and that didn’t stop them.

Working with a Witch though has given them a whole new element of surprise. How they managed to brainwash one of them enough to help them in the endeavors though is beyond me. You would think that even a young Witch, with no connections to a coven, would realize just how dangerous these people are. From the Salem Witch trials, to many massacres that have been left out of the history books, it all leads back to the cults.

I really fucking hope that they aren’t holding the woman captive and forcing her to do their bidding for them. In that sense though, it’s a good thing we have Annika on our side. If they have been keeping a Witch against her will, then she will be able to take her to the coven when we free her. They are far more better equipped to help her integrate back into society.

I’m getting ahead of myself though, this is all speculation on my part. I don’t want to work on any of these assumptions of mine, because if I’m wrong, I would just be putting us into even more danger. I don’t even want to mention any of the things running through my mind to the others. They usually take a small idea like that and roll with it until it all snowballs, and I don’t want them to feel responsible for anything else that may happen. We can’t always save everybody.

The pad of paper I have in front of me begins to move across the desk, and I just stare at it a minute, shocked. But when the pen sitting next to it begins to hover above the paper, I quickly shout on the others. I watch as I hear the others rushing towards me. The pen slowly begins to scribble across the page, as the others finally reach me, and we wait patiently for the message to be finished.

Melissa at house.

Shed out back.

Underground cavern.

Cult.

Missing Fae.

Ritual happening now!

Shit! This whole time they’ve been right in fucking front of us. How the fuck did they manage to keep an underground cavern big enough to hold that many people off of the blueprints? All at once we burst into movement. If the ritual is already underway, then we have to get our asses over there, now!

“Thanks Grey, let Melisa know we’re on our way!”

I don’t wait to see if the ghost writes any messages, I just rush out of the house, and we all load into the car. I can’t believe that the fuckers were right under our feet the whole time. How could we miss something like this? I know the others are feeling the same way as I am, the tension in the car thick enough to cut with a knife. I look into the rearview mirror at the others sitting