'Roo and the Angel by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve Langlais

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A shriek filled the air, and Jeb gaped as Angel, her eyes glowing, her features drawn and stark, hit the ground behind Maisy with her wings extended. The keening cry emerged from lips pulled over teeth that appeared a little sharper than usual. She looked like a wild creature with the tendrils of her hair writhing as if caught in a static storm.

The claws at the ends of Nev’s fingers were new. As was the evidence of her strength. She tore Maisy off him and tossed her a fair distance.

Luckily, Maisy had dealt with angry critters before and landed on her feet. Cats always did. However, being graceful of foot—and paw—didn’t mean Maisy took the manhandling well.

A feline hiss emerged from Maisy. “Whoa, sister. What’s got your knickers in a twist?”

Angel replied with another keening cry and took a step forward.

Given she wore a murderous expression—which, being a man of experience, he’d seen many times before—Jeb quickly thrust himself between the two women.

“Calm down, Angel. You don’t want to hurt Maisy.”

The growl from her lips said otherwise.

“Bring it. I am not afraid of your jealous girlfriend.” Maisy didn’t help the situation, but she did clarify it for him.

Could she be right? Was his angel feeling a little possessive?

“Angel,” he crooned. “You can calm down. Maisy and I are just friends.”

“Hands off,” Nev snarled, trying to reach around him. “Mine.”

“You can have him,” Maisy declared with a snort. “You can have all the Jones brothers for all I care.”

Someone still held some bitterness over the way things had ended with a certain brother of Jeb’s.

“Maisy and I are just friends,” he reiterated. “You can put away the claws.”

The declaration did little to quell Angel’s chest-heaving agitation.

Jeb moved closer to her, hands out to his sides, his voice soothing. “It’s okay, Angel. No one here is gonna hurt you.”

“Speak for yourself,” Maisy muttered.

Nev growled.

He shot Maisy a look over his shoulder. “Could you please not help for a second?”

“I am not the one who called out of the blue and said you needed my help.”

“It’s not for me. Nev is the one who needs it.”

Maisy’s full lips curled, and her dark eyes flashed. “I don’t provide anger management treatment. Whoever is in charge of her flock should take her under their wing and teach her some manners.”

“She has no flock,” he said, watching Nev, who paced, the feathers on her wings rippling, her body taut. A new side to her. A fighter. “She’s human.”

Those words froze Nev, who pivoted to stare at him. “No, I’m not. I’m a monster.” In an instant, she deflated. Her wingtips drooped, her fingers went back to normal, and her violet eyes went from fiercely glowing to a deep abyss of despair.

“Angel,” he cried out, reaching for her, only to have her dance away from his grasp.

Before he could say anything else—re: put his damned foot in his mouth even worse—Maisy darted around him to confront Nev. “Nonsense. You’re no more a monster than I am.”

A brow arched in time with a wing as Nev replied, “In case you hadn’t noticed, I have wings.

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