Tell No Lies

Cold Day in the Sun

Roisin was beyond furious as she waited for Sean to bring in Mae. How could she be so reckless? And especially after Roisin had specifically said no fae wine. What the hell was she thinking?

Roisin could hear people leaving the house, loud choruses of disappointment that things were ending early. Sean and Cara had gone out and turned off the music, shouting for everyone to go home, leaving her in his bedroom where she was currently standing still, almost shaking from anger.

"What's going on?" Mae asked, walking into the room. "Why are you ending things? This is not going to help our reputation."

Roisin spun around, fixing her eyes on her best friend. Mae's eyes widened as she took a step back, her face flushing as a blast of heat rushed out from Roisin, her wings now flaring up behind her.

"I don't give a flying fuck about our reputation right now. What the actual hell, Mae!? Fae wine!? Where did you even get it!?" Roisin shouted, Mae now cowering under the weight of the power in her voice. "You could have seriously hurt Embry!"

"It wasn't much! Just a little bit," Mae whimpered.

"I DON'T CARE IF IT WAS A FUCKING DROP! I SAID NO FAE WINE!" Roisin roared, flames flashing in her eyes. "Thank the goddesses Sean was able to give him a healing elixir, but it made him sick! Like physically sick! Not to mention, you KNOW what happens when mortals drink too much!"

"One of the solitary fae had it and gave me some. Embry took the cup from my hand and drank it! I swear! I didn't give it to him!" Mae shouted back, now pressed up against the wall as Roisin advanced on her. "You know I'm telling the truth!"

Roisin glowered at Mae a few moments, taking in her eyes wide in fear and her hands up. She knew that Mae couldn't lie. None of their kind could. Though that didn't mean they couldn't bend the truth.

"You swear that you didn't intend to give it to him?" Roisin asked, no longer shouting though her scowl remained. Mae gulped.

"It was mine. For me," she said. "No other mortals had any."

Roisin noted her wording, but there wasn't much she could do about it. She only hoped would be no lasting effects on Embry. She had never seen a mortal react that way to fae wine.

"If something bad happens to him or any other mortal because of this, I will not forgive you this time," Roisin said, still scowling at Mae. "No more parties."

Mae gulped and nodded, looking mildly relieved.

"Got it," she said.

"Good," Roisin said before turning and striding out of Sean's room.

She made her way across the now empty great room, seeing that the solitary fae had stuck around and were now cleaning up. She knew she should help, but at the moment, she really just needed to be alone for a moment as her surge of anger began to pass and she was suddenly feeling rather tired..

After she walked into her room, she shut the door behind her and walked over, falling back on her bed, her mind reeling. She was truly worried about Embry, but now that the danger seemed to be over - at least she hoped - it was hard to remain focused on that with her thoughts now turning back to Paul.

Just being there again, lying on her bed, she couldn't help as memories of what had been going on before Jared knocked on the door flooded her mind. Her eyes slid closed and for a moment she could almost feel Paul's lips on her neck, his hand running up her back.

It had been like nothing she felt before. So intense. So consuming. And yet, she knew absolutely nothing about him other than his name. Paul. Her eyes flew up as she stared at the ceiling, now only thinking of him.