Angel's Heart: Daughters of Elysium Book Four by S.M. Shadow

Author:S.M. Shadow [Shadow, S.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seclusion Publishing
Published: 2023-07-17T23:00:00+00:00

29

Drift

I’d just stalked outside when every window in the castle’s foyer shattered outward, Dragon fire following it. Apparently Alexei had made Benedict lose his temper. I had the sense that Alexei was very good at making Benedict lose his temper, and that maybe he was good at it because I’d helped him.

I didn’t have any concrete memories to go with that belief, just the feeling that it was true. The same way I didn’t really remember Alexei, but I remembered something.

A flash of an image, a moment in time of him making me laugh. Enough to make me feel safe. Not the kind of all-encompassing safety I felt with Benedict, but a different kind, like a brother might make me feel.

Not that either of them were making me feel safe right now. More like infuriated. I didn’t like being sent outside, but I’d also known there wasn’t any point in arguing with Benedict. If he didn’t want me somewhere, he’d pick me up and toss me outside. And my pride—a thing I was only just beginning to remember I had—wouldn’t allow for myself being physically thrown out of a building.

The two Icarii guarding the castle doors took five steps from it—no doubt to get away from the heat radiating off the stone—but otherwise didn’t do anything. I was really confused about what the point of the guards was, if Dragon fire erupting from within the castle’s foyer didn’t spur them into any sort of action.

Were they just ceremonial?

Their glances shifted to me, to the space above my shoulders where the arches of my wings should be, and that awful pity filled their gazes. It had my hackles rising, my frustration hitting a fever pitch.

I didn’t want to be pitied, because pity implied I was helpless, and useless, and that’s what I’d been in the mortal realm. I hadn’t come to this place to be that here, too.

I straightened my shoulders and glared at them. “What?” I snapped. “Something you’d like to comment on?”

They stiffened, and their expressions went carefully blank. The castle doors flung open and Benedict stormed out, Alexei a foot behind him.

Benedict’s irises had gone pure red. He was glowing with Dragon fire, and he was on a collision course straight for me. His wings sprouted from his back, black and leathery like a demon’s, and he scooped me up and shot us both into the sky.

Alexei followed at a distance, far enough back he wouldn’t be able to overhear anything that was said. Not that Benedict was saying anything. So I didn’t say anything either. At least, not until I realized we weren’t flying toward Dragon.

The black cliffs of their territory were distinctive enough it was easy to see we were flying left of them. And left of them was…Icarii.

Fear I didn’t understand curled through me. “Where are you taking us?”

No answer.

“Benedict, where are we going?” I shoved back against the immovable mass of him and got precisely nowhere. He didn’t budge physically, nor did he talk.

And

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