Archangel of Mercy by Christina Ashcroft

Author:Christina Ashcroft [Ashcroft, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Erotica, C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780425253496
Publisher: Berkley Heat
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

EVEN theoretically he would never have believed it possible. But it had worked. And it had to be down to the combination of her unique psychic abilities and the fact she didn’t belong solely to this dimension.

Yet something had interrupted her because when he’d arrived she was most certainly not strolling into another dimension.

Which brought him back to the burning question: How the fuck had he arrived in Ireland?

“You had it all worked out.”

“I thought so.” She offered him a small smile that, bizarrely, pierced his chest. “But I hadn’t planned on being knocked off my feet by an avenging archangel.”

He had no intention of admitting he still didn’t have the first clue how that had happened.

“Just as well you were, considering the fallout.” But there was no condemnation in his words. Because there was no longer any doubt in his mind that he’d done the right thing by disregarding ancient protocols and rescuing Aurora. The Guardians had taken it upon themselves countless millennia ago to ensure dimensions remained intact. Gabe was damn sure they had no provision for extenuating circumstances. If they had captured Aurora she wouldn’t have been given the opportunity to defend her actions, and with a stab of guilt he remembered his caustic response when she’d asked about a fair trial or court of appeal.

There’s nothing fair about it. He’d thrown the words at her, not really considering them, but they haunted him now. Because they were true.

“Gabe.” The smile slid from her lips and there was no mistaking the thread of unease in her voice. “You must have come across this before. I mean, I can’t be the only one whose parents are from different dimensions.”

The odd compunction possessed him to reassure her that of course she wasn’t the only trans-dimensional being he’d encountered. To somehow soothe her fear of being . . . The words hovered in his brain, loathed yet so apt.

The fear of being an anomaly of nature.

Yet he couldn’t lie to her because it wouldn’t change the truth. And as he stared into her eyes an outrageous notion rocked his mind.

Just because he had never known this to happen before, did not mean it had not.

Something of that magnitude should be common knowledge among the elite immortals. And like it or not, he was numbered among the elite.

But no one had known of Aurora.

“You . . .” He discovered he was at a loss for words and brutally pulled his reeling senses back into line. “You’re the first I’ve encountered.” Admit it. Strangely, it wasn’t as hard as it should have been. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re the only one, Aurora.”

She flinched, as if she’d known what his answer would be and yet had desperately hoped otherwise.

“Thanks for being honest.” She offered him a wan smile. “Nothing like having it confirmed that you’re a complete freak of creation, is there?”

“You’re in excellent company. I’ve been called worse.”

As he’d intended, she stared at him in open astonishment, her own unique status temporarily forgotten.

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