Page 62 of Mercy & Her Devils

CHAPTER TEN

Guest Bedroom, Devil Estate

Istand in the center of the guest bedroom, unable to believe that I’m now surrounded by such luxury.

This morning, I woke up in a cold cell. Now, I’m standing in a warm mansion.

I don’t know if I’m any safer.

Yet it feels like I’m in the heart of a pack and not like this is a new cage.

There’s no lock on the outside of the door.

I checked.

Plus, Kai hasn’t ordered us to remain inside the bedroom.

Once, I would have been shaking with nerves on the edge of a panic attack, even to be daring to think about going outside without express permission.

Yet my time with Lark and knowing that I’m strong enough to be broken and yet come back from it, have changed me.

I feel powerful now.

Brave.

Whatever happens next, I’ll face it side by side with the man who I love, my beautiful songbird.

I’m not lonely anymore.

Antonio led Lark and me to this room, hugging and kissing each of us, as if now that he had permission to show his love, he couldn’t contain it any longer.

He also looked dizzy with relief that he’d saved us.

I owe Antonio my life, but he shrugged it off like it was nothing, when I tried to thank him.

He calls himself a bad guy, but that makes him a good guy to me.

It’s why I’m falling for him.

Lark finally had enough of being kissed across his cheeks and nose, as if Antonio was a silver haired golden retriever, and shoved him out of the room with a final, passionate kiss that took away his breath.

Lark shot me a smirk about that.

At last, my legs gave out after more exercise than I’d had since I’d awoken from my fever in the cell, and I collapsed on my bottom.

Lark rushed to my side and dropped to kneel next to me, massaging my calves and thighs in a way that made me moan.

Then Kai brought Lark and me up a tray of chicken soup and buttery, homemade rolls.

And he knocked, before entering.

Lark and I looked at each other with wide eyes.

He actually knocked.

“Come in,” I squeaked.

As if an Omega had any right to tell an Alpha where they could go in their own territory.

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