Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh

Author:Nalini Singh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Azizex666
ISBN: 9780425233368
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2010-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Elena watched child after child accompany Jessamy into Sam's room. Keir had brought the boy up into a half-awake state where he was aware of what was happening but felt no pain. A chaotic mix of happiness and rage tore through her as she watched him beam at the gifts his classmates had brought him.

How could anyone be immoral enough to hurt such innocence?

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

"She likes it, you see."

Pain shot through her jaw as she wrenched herself back to the present, but it wasn't enough; her daylight hours were no longer safe from the long hand of nightmare. She could see Ari's eyes staring into hers, that bright turquoise gaze going slowly dull as Slater fulfilled his monstrous thirst. Ari had whispered at Elena to run, but her older sister hadn't been able to run herself, her legs not just broken like Belle's, but torn off altogether, a barbaric amputation.

Kindling.

That's what the broken bones sticking out of her thighs had looked like, the blood drying as it came into contact with the air.

"She won't run." A giggle. "She likes it, you see."

"Would you like to see him?"

Swiveling on her heel, Elena stared unseeing at Jessamy's startled face, her mind locked in that kitchen awash with a suffering that would stalk her for eternity.

Jessamy touched her with a hesitant hand. "Elena?"

"Yes," she said, forcing the words out past the brutal hammer of memory. "Yeah, I'd like to see Sam."

"Go on in." Jessamy's eyes held a quiet concern, but she didn't pry. "I'm herding the other children back to the classroom."

Digging up a smile from somewhere, Elena shut up everything else and walked inside Sam's room. "So," she said, "this is how you get out of writing Jessamy's essays."

A sparkle in that gaze she'd worried would go forever dull. According to Keir, Sam remembered nothing of his abduction - likely as a result of the head wound. There was a good chance he'd remember later on, but the healers and his parents planned to prepare him for that eventuality. By then, he'd be stronger, hopefully more able to process the events of that terrible night.

"No," Sam said, his voice husky. "She said I have to catch up."

"Sounds like her," Elena whispered, then gestured at the gifts. "You got a good haul."

"Did you bring me a present?"

Elena grinned. "Did I ever? I even asked your parents if I could give it to you."

Excitement had him straining forward. "What is it?"

"Hey, careful." Settling him back on the bed, she reached into her pocket to bring out a small dagger tucked into an intricately designed metal sheath.

Sam's eyes went huge as Elena put it into his hands. "I was given this after I completed a hunt for an angel in Shikoku, Japan. He told me it was a thousand years old." She touched the ruby at the bottom of the hilt. "The legend is that this ruby was once part of the eye of a dragon."

Small fingers ran reverently over the jewel. "What happened to the dragon?"

"He was such an ancient being that one day, he simply decided to sleep.

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