Lavender Fields by Natalina Reis

Author:Natalina Reis [Reis, Natalina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, M/M, angels, gay fiction, paranormal, fantasy romance, fantasy, Gay, gay romance, lgbt, demons
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Published: 2017-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

Falling Again

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WANTING

To my dismay, I found out that I was no Sherlock Holmes. I had been investigating the strange case of the dark angel for almost two weeks, and so far I was coming up empty—although I did have a great title for a mystery if I ever decided to become an author. On one hand, the fact that Samael or any of his cronies hadn’t shown up to wreak havoc in Caleb’s life was a relief. On the other, it also made me very nervous as to what they may be plotting.

Caleb was getting stronger every day, in spite of Joan’s assumption to the contrary. He was able to walk around without much help and didn’t require as many hours of sleep as before. The scar on his forehead was healing nicely, and the road burns on his face were faded. His arm, on the other hand, was still bandaged; the burns there had gone much deeper and were taking longer to heal. I watched him with fascination as he wobbled around the house, seemingly aimless but with purpose nevertheless. His hair had been shaved for the surgery and had grown back just enough to cover his scalp with a very dark, fuzzy layer. Sheltered beneath equally dark lashes, his unusual eyes glittered and shone like beams of light that filled me with longing.

Angels dated. Some, like my parents, mated for life and lived lives not unlike those of human couples. I’d had my romantic liaisons—far and between, it was true, but there nevertheless. Being the clumsy one, the “liability,” didn’t make me very attractive to other angels though. Angelic creatures treasured perfection, order, control. I was the perfect picture of everything flawed, chaotic, and out of control. Most of my dates had been angels going through a rebellious stage who thought they would enjoy a relationship with a wild one. They didn’t.

In the relative solitude of my life, I had never felt anything like the longing I did every time I looked at Caleb. It scared me a little.

With Joan back in school, it was oddly quiet. Her incessant chatter filled the house with bubbling life, and I missed it. The silence provided an opportunity for my hyperactive brain to fill me with dread that this—whatever this thing with Caleb and Joan was—would be over too soon, that Samael would take Caleb. Fear that Caleb didn’t and would never love me back.

“You have that look.” Caleb’s voice snapped me out of my reverie.

“What look?”

“The one that tells me you’re a million miles away.” He was leaning against the door frame, the corded muscles across his chest bulging slightly under the blue T-shirt. My breath quickened.

“I was thinking it’s too quiet here without the elf around.” With my heart playing a crazed drum solo, I tried to smile but probably frowned instead. I was so over my head.

Caleb took a few steps forward until he was standing right beside me, and I stumbled backward slightly as my legs turned to Jell-O.

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