Hell of an Angel by Christi Barth

Author:Christi Barth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Small Town & Rural Fiction; Friendship Fiction; Paranormal Romance; American Humorous Fiction; Contemporary Women's Fiction; General Humorous Fiction; Romance; Christi Barth; Genre Fiction; Entangled publishing; Amara; new romance book; popular romance book; single title romance; stand alone romance book; 2023 Romance book; 2023 Romantic Comedy Books; books with a Happy ending; HEA; PNR; romcom; romantic comedy; angels; angels and demons; angel and demon romance; urban fantasy; urban fantasy romance; [player reformed; player reformed romance; bodyguard; bodyguard romance; protector; forbidden love; forbidden love romance; road trip; road trip romance; summer romance; beach read; Hell of an Angel; Hell of an angel by Christi Barth
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Evangeline poured herself into her assignments as an actuary. It was calming to disappear for hours into the numbers and formulas of her work. By the end of the day, though, her brain was running on empty. She forced herself through a workout four days a week (never knew when something scaly and awful would chase her and she’d suddenly need to be able to do a four-minute mile), but then couldn’t manage more than collapsing on her couch and binging through shows.

Those were the good old days.

The pre-Nephilim days. Now she had a second job. Somehow. Chasing after a mysterious serial killer (maybe/probably) or more than one or one and a puppeteer pulling its strings. With celestial or Hell powers.

How was this her life?

When she’d done everything possible for years to avoid any contact, let alone involvement, with beings of power?

And yet here she sat. In Maisy’s backyard, at a long picnic table, listening to an argument/negotiation with an honest-to-God witch for a truth spell to use in the Nephilim training compound.

The witch—Aradia—tossed her head, sending long black hair cascading around her shoulders like a shampoo commercial. “I thought you guys had been at this a while. Aren’t you all older than my grandfather?”

Evangeline liked her immediately.

The woman—the human—wasn’t at all intimidated by the three uber powerful Nephilim. Technically, her witch powers might or might not hold up against the half-angels. But she had the confidence that said she didn’t care who’d win a fight because she already knew she was right.

Liss snickered. Another woman in no way overawed by the men. “Nice burn. They’ll never admit it, but I think they’re secretly worried about how they’re holding up. I caught Zavier checking out his eyes for crow’s feet the other day.”

He was still in his office wear—crisp gray shirt, loosened matching silk tie—but that didn’t lessen the impact of his crossed arms and glower. “You did not.”

“You were staring in the mirror in the lab, pulling at the skin around your eyes. Every woman knows that gesture.”

Wow. Liss was really poking the bear. With a flaming stick. Eva noticed that Maisy had her hand over her mouth, probably trying to hide a grin.

“The potion I’d mixed had acrid fumes. I was checking to see if my eyes were red and needed rinsing.”

Liss leaned across the table, squinting at his face. “You’re eighty-seven, right? When you turn ninety, how about I get you a special eye cream? You’ll have to use it every night, but it’ll work wonders.”

Zavier half rose from his seat, murder darkening his eyes to pure black.

Gideon jumped in. “Why does our age matter, Aradia?”

“Clearly, I’m contemptuous of you for not having acquired more knowledge over your considerable lifetime.”

Gideon had mentioned, prior to her arrival, that their relationship with the head of the local coven was only semi-friendly. More of a mutual back scratching without actually liking each other deal. Eva couldn’t tell if this was a routine they always went through before settling into business, or if Aradia actually had a problem with the Nephilim.

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