Iniquity (The Premonition Series Book 5) by Amy A Bartol

Author:Amy A Bartol [Bartol, Amy A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ugly Stepsister Production, LLC
Published: 2015-12-08T06:00:00+00:00

EVIE

A beefy Power angel with beige-colored wings brings me a delicate plate of seasoned cod. Xavier and I sit alone at our table in a posh dining room beneath low-hanging crystal chandeliers. Around us, Power angels savor the exquisite cuisine, casting covert glances at Xavier and me. I would’ve preferred to eat alone in my room, but Xavier insisted that I show myself here. He wants the other angels to grow accustomed to my presence—to my supremacy inherited through my Seraphim blood.

My skin feels paper-thin as Xavier’s hand comes within a breath of it. He picks up his wine glass, watching me, expecting me to suddenly recognize him for more than the human he has always been to me in this lifetime. I also remember him now as a British soldier from another lifetime—the life I don’t want to remember. In that time, he’d dangled the carrot of freedom before Simone—a desperate girl and she’d agreed to help him in exchange for her life. The biggest problem I have with that is I’m not entirely sure how it worked out for her. Not well, I’d imagine, because she died—I died. I’m Simone…or I was.

I scan the room for the diamond-shaped pupils and blue wings of the Cherub angel I’d seen when I first arrived. Atwater. I need to speak to him. If he knew Brennus before his fall, then I want to know why he’s still hanging around the Gancanagh and hasn’t tried to kill them. The Gancanagh lair in Houghton is not something that angels would normally let slide. Atwater knew I was a prisoner there, and yet, he’d done nothing to help me escape them. He had only come to me after Russell had freed me.

“You’re quiet.” Xavier lifts his glass to his lips and stares at me over the rim. His blond hair is dark under the dim light of the chandelier.

“Why would Atwater be following the Gancanagh?”

“I don’t know. He must have his reasons.”

“Do you know where he is?”

“Not at the moment.”

“But you can find him, right?”

“I can.”

“Find him for me.”

“Okay.” Xavier leans back in his seat, toying with his glass. “What are you going to do for me in exchange?”

“What do you want?”

“Cooperation.”

“Am I fighting you?”

“No. You’re biding your time, waiting for Reed to rescue you.”

“He’s my aspire. You’re keeping us apart.”

“I’m allowed to protect you from everything that can harm you now. I could never do that in your previous lifetimes as a human. This is a much better position to be in. I don’t have to watch you die and do nothing.”

“Reed won’t hurt me.”

“He’ll destroy you.”

“Why do you say that?”

“He doesn’t know who you are. He doesn’t understand you.”

“He understands me fine.”

“His only goal is to protect you.”

“Why is that so wrong?”

“You’re here to change things, Evie. It’s not about you, it’s about what you’ve become—a half-angel. There has never been your like in all of history. You’re changing the world. You’re the wave that will crush our enemies.”

“Why must I be a crusher? Why can’t I be a uniter?”

“You fight evil.

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