Between Heaven and Hell Omnibus by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Breeze flinched at the touch of my lips.

She seized the front of my shirt before I could pull away. Sizzling heat poured down into my bloodstream from the softness of her lips. I tasted strawberries and something else that was just her. Breeze pressed herself into me with a deep moan of need. Pure lust and desire ripped through my mind, pushed away the last of the calm in the air, and she finally ended the kiss with a sigh of contentment.

“I’ve been waiting to do that forever,” she whispered.

“I think I might’ve been, too,” I replied.

Audrey tapped my shoulder and pointed to our escort.

“As romantic as this is,” she said dryly, “we have bigger fish to fry.”

Breeze ignored her and gazed into my eyes.

“Raincheck?” I offered.

“Raincheck,” she agreed.

Breeze pulled away from me. A twinge of regret twisted in my gut. It took me a full ten seconds to get my mind back in the game. I pictured Jasmine’s face for just a second.

I had a feeling that she’d be laughing at us. Or cheering us on.

My girlfriend had been egging Breeze on for weeks.

The metallic angels resumed their stride in perfect sync and led us through a pillared hallway. Perfectly-symmetrical architecture stretched up around us in strange patterns that made my head spin. Floating steel platforms hovered above our heads. Smooth-faced creatures sat in meditative postures and holographic numbers whirled around them.

They didn’t seem to care about the fact that we’d invaded their home.

Bright blue light illuminated the half-mile walk to the end of the hallway.

A simple stool sat on another platform hovering three yards off the floor.

An angel in gold stared down at us. Visible eye-slits glowed with bright blue energy. Folded wings studded with metallic feathers hovered around its back. An ethereal, perfectionist beauty swelled out from the creature.

A compulsion to kneel in pure awe rolled through my body.

I fought it off. Breeze’s legs trembled until I interlinked my fingers with hers.

The occultist took a deep breath and steadied herself.

Audrey halted in front of us and swayed a little.

The psychic pressure of the creature buffeted her, but a flash of grim determination flickered through her eyes. Harrington hadn’t been exaggerating about her ability to fight off celestial influence. The three drones genuflected in front of their superior, and they stayed on a single knee with their heads bowed.

I couldn’t hear what they were saying to each other.

The angelic leader nodded once and waved a thin-fingered hand. The acolytes rose to their feet and vanished off to the right. I kept my eyes firmly on the angel’s seat, rather than its face, and toyed with memories of Jasmine in hotel rooms over the last few weeks.

“You have come a long way and defied your natures,” the angel said.

Its voice hovered in my mind like a long-lost symphony.

Everything about the tone sounded like perfect harmony.

“We didn’t intend to intrude on your territory,” Audrey replied.

“That much is clear, mortal. You were brought here against your will. A curiosity.”

“What do you want with us?” I asked.

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