A Devil Named Desire by Garey Terri

Author:Garey, Terri [Garey, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061986406
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2012-01-30T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Gabriel spent a sleepless night, but it hardly mattered, for he didn’t need sleep. When light began to creep around the curtains in Hope’s living room, he opened them, watching the city turn ever paler shades of gray.

Why was he so drawn to her? Why this need to protect her? She’d known what she was doing when she made her unholy bargain with the Devil, just as she’d known what she was doing last night when she tried to seduce him.

Never before had he been tempted. Never.

Lifting his hand, he held it out from his body, the sun a glowing ball behind it. Blood coursed through his veins, a different form of energy from what he was used to when in angelic form. Blood, breath; the pulsing engines that drove the world of the flesh. Mankind had been created in the One’s own image; was it wrong for an angel to take pleasure in it?

“Guide me, my Father,” he murmured. “I need to be strong, but I’ve never before felt so weak.”

Light bloomed at the corner of his vision, a much brighter light than the sun outside the window. Gabe turned his head to see a corner of Hope’s living room become slowly eclipsed by a pulsating, amorphous ball of pure energy that grew, and grew, until the walls surrounding him disappeared entirely, leaving him bathed in Light, warmed through and through by knowledge of its source.

Gabriel closed his eyes, basking in it, soul soaring as the Light took everything he had, and returned it tenfold.

“Gabriel, my son.” A Voice, full of love and compassion, came from the Light. “It is through weakness that strength is most often forged.”

“Most High.” Gabriel inclined his head in a gesture of deepest respect, fully aware of the honor paid him, encased in human flesh as he was. The One did not often leave the heavens, leaving that for his army of angels.

“You are troubled,” said the Voice, “but there is no need.”

“I don’t understand.” Surely he wasn’t meant to feel this burning need to press his lips against another’s, to feel her skin beneath his fingertips, her breath upon his cheek? “The woman in the other room. She . . .” He found himself ashamed to say the words aloud, yet forced himself to do so, for there was nothing he knew that the One already didn’t. “She tempts me.”

“Yes,” the Voice agreed, with a tinge of sorrow, “for you’ve wandered too long among my flawed, imperfect children, and become almost as flawed as they.”

Gabe’s heart began to pound. “I but seek to do as you would have me do, and protect the mortals from the Darkness.”

“The Darkness is always among them,” the Voice answered, “like a wolf among the sheep.”

Deep within, Gabriel trembled.

“We’ve come to a time of parting, my son.” The regret in the Voice was unmistakable.

“No!” Gabriel denied it, standing tall before whom he served. “I am your true and faithful servant! I’ve done nothing wrong!”

“Love is never wrong, my child.

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