Chosen Blood: A Dark Urban Fantasy Romance (Demon Bayou Series Book 1) by S. Lawrence

Author:S. Lawrence [S. Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732357082
Publisher: Dragonfly Dreams Publishing
Published: 2019-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Four

GRACE

The brightness of Heaven blinds me, as does my fury.

I spin to glare at my brother.

“I know you’re upset but I have to keep you safe.” I’m speechless.

I’ve been living with the Fallen for thousands of years, but now he wants to keep me safe? Now that I was seconds from being back with Evander? I see his hand outstretched in my mind and I grit my teeth.

I finally let the anger I had forced down at seeing him alive outside of Avalon burst forth.

“Did you know?” I grit out. The look on his face says everything. Of course he knew. “How long?”

He turns away, but not before I see the guilt.

“Are you fucking kidding me, Caliel?” Grabbing his arm, I spin him back. He lets me control him. “The whole time. Why?”

“Why, what? Why didn’t I tell you that Lucifer had brought your lover back to life? That he was a demon? The first Prince of Hell?” He stares at me waiting, but two can play that game. I stare right back. “It would have eaten away at you. Driven you mad.”

“Maybe but that should have been my choice.” I hate the hurt I hear.

“You can’t be together now. Please tell me you understand that.”

It’s my turn to look away. “Grace. You are an angel of Heaven, and he is Lucifer’s second in command, a high demon of Hell.” His voice is filled with sympathy.

“What does that even mean? We both know Hell isn’t what humans think.” It isn’t not what they think either. It’s a prison for the very worst of all kinds.

He comes to me, stopping just inches away. I don’t look at him. He waits, and finally I turn my head. “Must I give up everything?”

His arms come around me, and I let my forehead drop to his chest. A thousand years of tears start to pour from my body. Grief I was never allowed to feel over Evander’s death, worry for Lillian throughout her whole life, and now anger at being kept from the man I love, still.

“He might not be that man.” My brother’s quiet reply makes me realize I had been crying out loud.

I want to argue that Evander would never change but I’m different now. What if I’m too different for him to love the way he once did?

Pushing away from Caliel, I turn and walk slowly down the golden hallway I never thought to see again. Pausing at what was my door, I see everything is as I left it; I could have been away for only a few hours not hundreds of years.

All of my things are gleaming in the light, and I realize he’s not only kept them but also taken care of them, waiting for me to return. I turn my head, locking eyes with him. There I see how hard this has been on him.

I think of how lonely he must have been up here. This little home is far from anyone else, hidden away so people didn’t see and realize what we were.

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