Midnight Rose (Celestials Book 3) by Emma Hamm

Author:Emma Hamm [Hamm, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

A few days passed without a word from Uriel. Rhea did what she was told. She waited for him to call upon her again, although now she waited with anticipation rather than apprehension.

The other priestesses tried to get whatever details they could out of her. Why had she returned covered in blood? She’d said it wasn’t hers, and they’d found no wounds on her body, so what had happened?

He hadn’t told her to keep anything a secret, but Rhea still felt like she should. The story she told to the other priestesses was a watered-down version of the truth. Some of them took it at face value and nodded sagely. Others, like Holly, watched her with a hawk’s gaze.

They could smell a lie like that from a mile away. They wanted the entire truth, for whatever reason that was, but she couldn’t tell them.

The other Dread would eventually share their lives with their own priestesses. Or they wouldn’t. It wasn’t for Rhea to tell them how to gain their trust.

Also, it felt as though she held a fragile secret to her breast. She was different from the others. She had proven herself worthy of his attention and time. For the first time in her life, someone wanted her and no one else.

Couldn’t she keep that to herself for a little while longer? She hoped so, at least.

Two days after she’d created life from nothing, she stepped into the gardens. Everyone had gathered together, splayed out on fountains and benches.

They were chattering about nothing important, as they did every time they grew too bored as a collective. Rhea had never joined them. Most of them stopped talking when she stepped into the room, but they didn’t this time.

Instead, they just kept talking as though she weren’t there.

Rhea made her way to Holly’s side and quietly sat down in the moss beside her. The big woman was watching the others, but set apart in the grass and moss rather than on a fountain or bench.

Rhea didn’t want to open her mouth, in case they all stopped. Whatever gift she’d been given in being accepted into the fold was something she didn’t want to waste.

Laurel cast an angry glare at her, but kept talking. “My Dread said my eyes are pretty. Did you hear that? See, I told you he’d come around like all the others. I just had to give him a little more time than a human man, and that makes sense anyway.”

One of the twins giggled. “Laurel, we all know you’re curious what they hide underneath those clothes, but maybe you’ll have to accept that none of them want to bed us.”

“They do!” she growled.

The twin tossed her hands in the air. “I know we were told that at the Cathedral. They’re beasts with lusts that cannot be tamed, but so far, not a single one of them has looked at any of us with a hint of desire. And we’re beautiful. We’ve been made that way.”

Rhea’s mind caught on the words.

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