Almost Heaven by Becky Lee Weyrich

Author:Becky Lee Weyrich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION/Romance/General
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2014-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Where are you taking me?” Angel’s voice lost force and form in the fierce psychedelic hurricane that enveloped them as they began their flight back through time.

“…far…” was the only word she caught in Alexander’s answer. The howling wind swallowed all the rest.

She decided further conversation would be useless until they reached their destination—wherever that might be. She should have demanded answers from Alexander before she’d agreed to come on this wild excursion. She hadn’t agreed, as she recalled. Alexander hadn’t given her a chance. He was always accusing her of being impatient. Well, maybe she was, but he was twice as stubborn and bullheaded. The man—angel or not—was a chauvinist. He seemed to think because Angel was only a woman, he could do whatever he liked without consulting her. She was sick and tired of getting pushed around and yelled at by this heavenly hunk. And the minute she could make him hear her again, she meant to tell him so. She had to admit, though, that something about him did pluck her harp strings.

As they continued whirling, swirling, tumbling through space, Angel’s thoughts gyrated and jigged with the same erratic motion. Then their flight began to slow. The howl of the wind settled to a dull moan. At the same time, the vivid clouds, like splashes of Easter-egg dye, turned dark and ominous—purple, gray, and finally deepest black. When all the colors had faded completely, their motion ceased as well. They seemed suspended inside a death-dark void. Even Alexander’s aura lost its glow.

And the silence! The silence was so complete that Angel was sure she could have heard her own heartbeat, if it hadn’t stopped beating that snowy day in Maine—the day of her fatal accident.

“Where are we?” she whispered.

“Shhh!” Alexander cautioned. “Wait for the transition.”

“The what?”

“The final transformation from our present identities back to our entities from the past.”

“You mean we’re about to change into different people again, like when we were that Spanish couple who died in the shipwreck?”

“Alejandro and Gelina. Yes.”

The psychedelic fog cleared from Angel’s mind suddenly and she recalled Alexander’s final words before their wild flight. “Don’t tell me—we’re going on a ghost hunt. We are, aren’t we? We’re going to find General Joshua. But why? What good will that do, Alexander?”

“I hope it will bring you new understanding,” he answered. “I also hope it might restore the lost spark to your soul.”

Hearing this, Angel got so excited she nearly fell off the black cloud which seemed to be the only thing that kept them from tumbling down and down through the dark tunnel of time and space.

“You mean you’re going to bring me back to life?” She threw her arms around Alexander and hugged him soundly. “Oh, thank you, thank you! Then I can go back to Jim and Hope and everything will be just the way it was before.”

Alexander clung to Angel, accepting the unexpected embrace as he would any other unanticipated gift from God. It was a wonder to have this happy, bubbling spirit so close after all their time apart.

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