Carl (Guardians In Love Book 4) by Brianna West

Author:Brianna West [West, Brianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

My vision was fuzzy as I came to, barely registering sound at all. Everything was numb and unfocused as I tried to see through the throbbing inside my head. Taking a direct hit like I had, it was no wonder I was having trouble getting my body to work correctly. It had been a long time since anyone had caught me so off guard. I’d let my guard down in the moment it was most needed. I only had myself to blame, and now Aidan had been unwillingly drawn into it.

The only other time when I’d failed so terribly was with a very special person. Someone who was later recovered hanging onto the last thread of her life. Her very existence could’ve been expunged purely as a result of my failure to be preemptive on our mission. It had been the greatest disappointment of my life, and I couldn’t let it be repeated.

Since that time, I’d promised myself never to underestimate another mission. There were lives that depended on me. But unfortunately, thoughtlessly, I’d done it again. Like a damned idiot. There would be people who would die if I didn’t come to some sort of conclusion where Niko was concerned, whether it was to turn him back to the Light or to end him.

There was a swaying movement in my body, as if I were being carried, which set off alarms in my head. Blinking through my blurry vision, I slammed an elbow into the person carrying me.

“Oi! That bloody hurts!”

Though muffled, Aidan’s voice was distinct enough that I immediately ceased my struggle. Still working to get my vision clear, I lifted my head and looked over my shoulder at the back of Aidan’s head. I was thrown over one of his wide shoulders as he ran across a night-painted landscape. The fresh scent of rain reached my nose before I realized that he hadn’t ceased running, even when he was visibly stricken with the pain I’d caused him.

Letting my eyes numbly trail from him to what expanded behind us, I noticed a horde of demons and something in the sky that was dark against a round, brightly lit moon.

Were those wings?

Aidan adjusted his grip on me, picking up speed as his hand lifted the phone he’d dug out of his pocket. Gold magic throbbed around us as the winged creature in the sky floated, wings thrusting up and down without urgency as it quietly observed us below. My heart was in my throat when I noticed the wing shape was frighteningly familiar.

It couldn’t possibly be…

“We’ve got a problem, yeah? A bloody big one,” Aidan barked into the phone, glancing over to me as he huffed and panted, steadily increasing his speed. “Fuck, I don’t have enough power to teleport right now. Logan,” he said in a growl, “It’s a Dark angel.”

The physical strain Aidan was under was perspiring from his face, his panting growing more uneven the longer he ran. It was evident from my quick observation that he’d expelled a great deal of energy while I was unconscious.

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