The Eyes Tell No Lies

by Marquaylla Lorette

  ‘Fuck! I am just a journalist, what am I doing out here? My hard head really got me into trouble this time, I thought as I remembered what our ancestors told me earlier. I was now pissed I didn’t listen. Just before I left tonight, our ancestors came to me and warned me of the dangers that lay ahead if I didn’t take my brother with me.

  ‘I could hear the sound of cars passing by at a rapid speed and I knew I was almost to the open highway. I breathed a sigh of relief when I noticed the clearing to the highway.

  ‘Just a couple more steps and I am there, I thought just before I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head and everything around me went black,’ Grace finished telling Cris what happened to her.

  Cris looked at Tate when Grace finished her recount of her death and he shook his head at Tate.

  “I tried to call you once, but Mark called me on my cell phone and told me to hang up the house phone. After I hung up, he sent me a video of my wife to my cell phone. He sent me five videos in total you can check my phone. He continued as he saw the pain in Cris’s eyes from what he was hearing.

  “That’s not all. He told me he gave my parents a sedative before lighting the house on fire. He killed our parents and watched as the house burned until he heard the sirens approaching,” Tate said as he laid his head down on the table.

  It had been so hard for him keeping this all in. A huge weight gradually lifted off him as he told Cris everything.

  Cris signaled for the person behind the window to bring him the phone when they were finished viewing it. He was feeling confused, he didn’t know whether to remain professional or comfort his cousin. The door to the interrogation room opened just as he was about to make his move. He took the phone from the officer and began to watch the videos.

  The first video was of Jessica, Tate’s wife, sitting on a dirty mattress with just a nightgown on. As he went through the videos, he saw as Jessica became dirtier and dirtier and dark rings formed around her eyes. The last one was of Mark throwing fruit and water at Jessica and laughing.

  The room burst open again as Captain O’Kelly walked into the room.

  “Tate Crow, you are free to go, an investigator will be contacting you. There is an officer waiting out there to take you to the hospital where your wife is waiting,” Captain O’Kelly said as he took the cuffs off Tate.

  “Wait, how do you know he didn’t have anything to do with what his brother did?” Cris asked, thinking like a cop now.

  “Your sister was a smart woman, she was recording and videoing the whole time she was there. Mark broke her recording equipment thinking that was the end of it. Your sister had a backup file that loaded to her computer.

  “Our techs were finally able to crack through all the firewalls she put in place last night. They were able to pull up the night of her murder just a few moments ago. I would have told you about the evidence we knew was on the computer but I knew you wouldn’t have been able to help.

  “I didn’t want to tell you until we knew we could get into her computer,” Captain O’Kelly said as he sat on the other side of Cris, who sat there dazed.

  “I understand,” Cris finally said.

  He wasn’t lying about understanding, he had been in the captain’s position quite a few times in his career. Not giving a victim’s family member false hope was one of their number one rules in this office.

  “Thanks, Captain,” Cris said as he got up and left the room to look for Arie. He needed to go find her and make sure she was safe. Seeing a loved one in danger made him see everything clearly. He knew for sure now that Arie was the one for him and he would do everything to keep her happy and with him.

  ****

  Arie had to give both her boats and her gun to the captain as evidence when she left. Not having her gun with her made her feel naked and vulnerable. She didn’t mind feeling vulnerable any longer as long as she had Cris by her side. Seeing him hanging like that had her heart still pounding when she thought she was about to lose him forever. She didn’t know what she would have done if he had died. She had let him in when she told him about her past but not fully. Now that she understood what Kylee was talking about when she told her it would be scarier to never experience his love than to lose it. It was time for her to stop running scared from him and open her heart fully to him.

  “Arie, go open the door as I get our bags out of the trunk,” Cris said as he pulled into Arie’s driveway.

  “Alright,” Aries said as she took her keys out of her pocket and went to unlock the door.

  She was waiting in the middle of the room between the stairs and front door when he entered. As soon as Cris walked into the house, he put down the bags and locked the door. Arie began to walk toward the stairs, stripping a piece of clothing off each step she took, leaving a trail of clothes behind her. When she was standing naked a few feet ahead of him, she turned toward him and motioned for him to follow her.

  Cris forgot all about the slight pain he was in, immediately kicked off his shoes, and hurriedly stripped out of his clothes, leaving them in a pile where he was standing. He immediately followed behind her.

  Arie pinned Cris to the wall next to her door as soon as he rounded the corner. Some of the adrenaline from earlier was still coursing through her body.

  Arie kissed and sucked the right side of Cris’s neck until she felt his cock harden against her. She brushed kisses from his shoulder blade down around his chest to the left side of his neck.

  Cris moaned as Arie kissed her way down his body until she was kneeling before him. She looked up at him with a desire etched on her face as she started stroking and squeezing his cock. Arie eagerly kissed the head as she stroked him faster.

  It felt so good to him as she took his tender head in her mouth, he lifted his hips to meet her suck for suck and lick for lick. She kissed him tenderly, licking and sucking the edge of his tip as she slid her lips to the base of him and back up over and over again.

  “Umm, that feels good, baby, but I need to be inside of you,” Cris groaned out as Arie stroked him again, then released him and stood.

  She wrapped her legs around his waist as he picked her up, spun her around, and pinned her to the wall. Cris unwrapped her legs from around his waist and lifted her until her pussy was lined up right at his mouth. His tongue teased her as he gently kissed the inside of her thighs.

  “Ohh, that feels so good, harder, faster,” Arie moaned out as his tongue was lapping at her folds, then lightly flicking her clit.

  She quickly wrapped her legs around his neck and thrust her hips toward his waiting tongue. She began to grind her pussy against his eager waiting mouth as he thrust his tongue deeper and deeper into her. Until the familiar tingling sensation she was beginning to love and seek out took over her body. She threw her head back against the wall as it took over her. Cris grasped her hips tightly and plunged his tongue inside her as she bucked and shuddered as the force of her orgasm took over her.

  Dropping her legs, Cris let her body slide down his until her pussy was lined up with his cock. She moaned as he entered her fully in one powerful thrust. Cris put one hand on the wall to steady himself and wrapped the other tightly around her waist. They kissed each other with need as Cris thrust in and out of Arie until he found the spot he was looking for. Arie cried out as he plunged hitting her sweet spot over and over again.

  “Open for me, baby,” Cris groaned out as her heat enclosed his cock.

  As she spread her legs wider, she could feel his cock sliding deeper inside of her, hitting that one spot that drove her wild. The feeling was so good, she didn’t want it to end.

  “Yes, fuck, tighter, baby,” Cris groaned out as Aries rotated her hips and squeezed her walls tightly around his cock.

  Cris bit his bottom lip trying to draw pain to his lip to prolong his orgasm. He reached between them, and began pinching her clit and stroking it harder and faster.

  “Right there, Chris, harder…faster.” Cris couldn’t hold his orgasm for much longer so pinc
hed her clit, hard, while he thrust into her harder and faster. Arie threw her head back and orgasmed along with Cris.

  “Fuck,” he screamed out as he plunged into Arie three more times, shooting his seed deep inside of her. He unsteadily carried them both to the bed and pulled back the covers. They were still connected as he slid into the bed under the covers with Arie laying on top of him.

  “I love you.” They both whispered to each other as they drifted off to sleep.

  Epilogue

  Arie sat in the captain’s office waiting for him to enter. He had called Cris and told him he needed her to meet him there at twelve p.m. Cris would have been there with her but he was picking up his partner Derrick and his wife from the airport and taking them to their car.

  Arie sat straight up when the captain walked in and sat behind his desk.

  “Arie, the Chief of Police and I are so impressed with you that we pulled some strings and got you into the Police Academy. All you have to do is say yes and sign—”

  Arie jumped up and yelled “yes” as she took the pen from the Captain before he could finish his sentence.

  “What is all the screaming about in here?” Cris said smiling as he walked in.

  Arie excitedly told him what was going on as she jumped up and down from one foot to the other. She hadn’t been this happy about what she was doing with her life in a long time.

  A chill ran down her and she stopped jumping when she saw Cris’s partner standing in the door staring at her. He wasn’t giving her a creepy, weird stare but a stare that was so much more. It was like he knew her from somewhere and was trying to place it as if a lot depended on him figuring it out. It was weird because she felt as though she either knew him or was suppose to know him somehow. He turned around and quickly left before she could ask him any of the questions rolling around her head.

  “Der—” Cris cut his words off when he turned around and noticed Derrick was gone. “Oh well, looks like it is just you and me now, baby, let’s go celebrate,” Cris said as they walked out of the captains office.

  Arie vowed to find out why Derrick was looking at her like that as they left the station to go celebrate with Kylee and Jordan.

  Books Available by Marquaylla Lorette

  The Tarlaoch Realm

  The Tarlaoch Realm

  Book One

  Malachi’s Awakening

  Book Two

  Fiyah’s Spirit

  Book Three

  Christmas Cheers from The Tarlaoch Realm

  Book Three ½

  Book Four

  Coming Soon

  Isle of Paradise Series

  Alpha Battle

  Book One

  A Time For Change

  Book Two

  Book Three

  Coming Soon

  Truth Beneath the Lies

  The Eyes Tell No Lies

  Book One

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  Excerpt from A time For Change

  Isle of Paradise Series Book Two

  By Marquaylla Lorette

  Three hours later, James felt the need to hurry home. It was as if an unseen force was pulling his mind home. Charity must have felt it as well since she suddenly shot out of her seat and made her way toward him in a hurry.

  “Come on, James, we have to go home,” Charity whispered in his ear so he could hear her over the music as she pulled him out of his seat.

  James’s coworkers had left over an hour ago and it was just a few of Charity’s friends still in the bar. Being the cop he was, James made sure Charity’s friends that were still in the bar all had a ride home before they left.

  Ten minutes later, instead of the usual twenty it took since there was no traffic, they pulled up to their home. James noticed their front door was wide opened when he pulled up to the front of the house and immediately went into police mode.

  “Stay here, Charity, until I come back and get you,” James said as he reached for his backup guns locked on his trike.

  “Do you remember how to use this?” James asked Charity as he handed her a gun.

  “Yes, you take me to the gun range twice a week, why wouldn’t I?” Charity answered.

  “Okay, shoot if it isn’t me, mom, or dad who walks out of the house or approaches you, got it? I am going to check on mom and dad now,” James said before he cautiously approached the front door.

  He could hear muffled screams coming from the living room and ran straight there. James could see a few cat and wolf shifters ripping their parents’ bodies apart with their teeth. James immediately shifted into his lion form since it was larger than his wolf form and attacked the closest shifter. He ripped apart shifter after shifter until an unknown voice in his head halted him in his tracks.

  ‘James, get out of there now, more shifters are on their way. If you don’t leave now, both you and your sister will be killed. Don’t worry, you can trust me, I am Eli’s grandmother, Aishe, I helped your parents before. Two bottles of emergency potion I sent your parents years ago are in the pot on the porch. The Alpha of the Isle of Paradise has a secret airplane only you and your sister can see waiting at the airport for you both. Call Eli to meet you at the airport on your way there for help, just in case the shifters follow you. Have him bring his father’s Enforcers and I will be there as well.’

  James followed all of Aishe’s directions. He would do whatever he had to protect Charity now, even if it was listening to a voice in his head. He knew who Aishe was from listening to the stories from Eli and his parents, and knew without a doubt that it was she.

  James left their home, grabbed the potions from the pot on the porch, and headed for his trike and Charity. Once he reached Charity, he quickly explained what they needed to do and the urgency they needed to do it in. Charity didn’t question, just obeyed, and they took off. James grabbed his phone, there was a call he needed to make.

  ****

  “Eli, my parents are dead, I don’t know what is going on, but I have to get my sister, Charity, away from here until I do. We are on our way to the secret airport on this side of the world. I need you to meet us at the airport on the Isle of Paradise. Bring backup with you, I think whoever killed my parents are now after Charity and me. Come quick, we are almost there.” James left the message on Eli’s voicemail, hoping Eli would check his messages before James and Charity made it to the airport.

  James could feel the other shifters a few blocks behind them. He knew the shifters couldn’t smell him because of the emergency potion from Aishe, but they could still see him. He had to come up with a plan to ditch them before he got to the airport. James knew they would be safe in the secret plane only he and Charity could see, but they had to get there first. He also knew if he stayed on this road then the shifters would know exactly where they were going.

  James turned right instead of driving straight ahead toward the airport. As he turned, the shifters turned their car onto the street he had just turned off. It took him twenty minutes longer to get to the airport, but it was well worth it.

  James held up the plane for twenty minutes making sure everything was okay with the plane and his bike before taking off.

  “James, why didn’t you let me go in the house? Where are we going?” Charity asked as the plane took off.

  “Charity, they found mom and dad. I was too late to save them, but I have to do whatever I can in order to save you. We are going to the Isle of Paradise, so Aishe, Eli, Eli’s mate, Jadelyn, Jake, the Alpha Baron, and the rest of Isle can help me protect you. I will find out who killed mom and dad once we are on the Isle. We are going back to where it all began to discover what happened to them,” James answered as he closed his eyes. Charity’s eyes filled with tears. Sobs escaped from her mouth. James could see how scared she was, how
lost she looked since she found out their parents were dead.

  James hated when his sister cried and felt bad he couldn’t do anything to soothe her. If he could bring his parents back just to comfort his sister one last time, he would.

  “It’s okay, Charity, I will protect you now with my own life,” James said as he pulled his sister into a hug.

  “I know, James. You always have,” Charity said through her sniffles.

  Everything around him disappeared as he rode his trike toward his mates.

  Excerpt from Tyrant's Keep

  By Nancy Lommel

  “Princess Ariyona,” he began by letting her know he was all too aware of her identity. “My name is Captain Merrick. You are now the prisoner of My Liege Lord, His Royal Majesty, King Jareth of Ravenwood.”

  Ariyona felt her stomach sink to her toes upon hearing that name and she paled visibly.

  “My Lord has ordered my men and me to bring you whole and unharmed before him. My Lord is very unforgiving of failure, so it is my wish that you cooperate with us so that we may fulfill his bidding. We wish you no harm, but know that we will deliver you. It is in your best interest at this point to cause no trouble. As long as you cooperate, we will do everything possible to assure your safety and comfort on the journey to Ravenwood. Do you agree or would you like to take on the four of us?” Merrick smiled as he spoke the last.