Mercy for the Fallen by Lisa Olsen

Author:Lisa Olsen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781494289027
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I wasn’t sure if the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach was because of the nervous wreck I’d worked myself into, or from the fries I’d inhaled back in Australia. Either way, I was a ball of stress as Daphne rolled up in a car I didn’t recognize, a white Honda Civic with a moon roof and tinted windows.

“Mercy!” I’d been about to go for the passenger’s side door, but she threw her door open, jumping out for an excited hug. I was halfway to squashing her like a bug before I remembered my angelic strength and held back, hugging her carefully, more excited to see her than I could say. Luckily, words weren’t necessary, when she pulled back, I could see she was even more overwhelmed and excited to see me than I was to see her.

“I can’t believe you’re here!” she said, blue eyes shiny with unshed tears. Her hair was cut shorter now, to her shoulder blades, still hanging in perfect blonde ringlets. “Come on, let’s go back to my place. I want to hear absolutely everything about where you’ve been!”

Only I wasn’t ready to talk about it, not yet. Parker had filled her in on Eve’s abduction and my trip to Hell to get her back with Adam, but she had no idea what had happened to me after that. I supposed I could understand Parker wanting to be tight lipped about it. Instead, I got her talking about Matty and my mother. It turned out Matty was still living in Las Vegas with Oriana, working ‘the circuit’ as they liked to call it. They had a pair of three year old twin boys, Fin and Col, and she had some pictures she could show me in her email.

Matty a father… I couldn’t get over it. And Oriana a mother… I wasn’t sure whether I should be excited for them or afraid. And I’d missed it! Missed it all. Daphne chatted on about my mother, something about Oriana threatening to turn her tongue into a snake if she didn’t go home after she’d come to Vegas to “help out” after the twins were born. After that she wasn’t sure what my mom had been up to.

When she pulled into an underground parking lot beneath a posh high-rise, I stopped asking questions long enough to pay attention to our surroundings. While I hadn’t thought she’d be living in the same tiny studio apartment, I hadn’t expected her to pull into such an expensive building either.

“You live here?” I asked as we stepped into the elevator. Daphne gave me a secretive grin, tongue peeking out between her teeth as her giddy nature asserted itself, playing it coy.

The apartment on the top floor (lucky number thirteen if you counted the lobby and the two garage levels) was ultramodern, not how I pictured Daphne living at all. The kitchen was super sleek with red lacquered cabinets and a stainless steel countertop on the impressive island. The living room was more eclectic than posh, and that’s where I saw Daphne’s influence.

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