Oriel by Alisa Woods

Author:Alisa Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sworn Secrets Publishing

Chapter Nine

Lizza absently petted Mr. Charley as she looked over the latest results.

It’d been two agonizingly long days since Oriel left. Fell into shadow. He was being tormented in some dark underworld because of her, and the guilt of that was eating a giant hole in her stomach. Meanwhile, she needed to solve the dimensional drive problem—and figure out how not to turn grass into sludge—so they could make forward movement. Everyone was counting on her to deliver before Daxon—the super-hot billionaire who funded their experiments—showed up for his progress visit in three days. He knew nothing about angelings or the shadow realm, much less the larger forces at work trying to stop them… he just expected results. She had plenty to worry about, Oriel most of all, but despite that, she was making progress.

In no small part, thanks to him.

The latest run showed promise. She’d had a breakthrough after Oriel flew straight out of her apartment and her life—she’d realized that the Bounce Back run was fundamentally flawed. Forcing something living to be in two places at once? Then resolve? That was a recipe for green sludge in a pot. Just like angelings were either in the light or in shadow—but not both—her plant needed to move to the over-dimension and stay there, not dimensionally split in two to bring it back. So the next trick was finding a way to map where the object went… and then find a way to bring it back. She had an idea, but she needed to re-run her trim calculations because this next object would be very different.

She was sending Oriel’s angel blade through the machine.

He’d apparently dropped it on the roof, abandoning all vestiges of his life in the light. It tore into her heart, the idea of him leaving everything behind, but Tajael had explained that anything in the light was poison to him now. Where he was going, it wouldn’t help him anyway. A shudder went through her, making her pencil jitter a little as she circled the key factors just outside the MRI’s range. She had to not think too much about the price Oriel was paying—at least not the specifics of it—or she would lose focus. And she was committed even more now to the vow she made to her parents… to do something great with this second-life gift she’d been given.

Technically, third-life now. Oriel had fixed her soul.

That thought always arrested her from what she was doing and made her smile. She’d told him she was fine, and she totally believed that at the time. But when he breathed that life kiss into her… she could feel it working. Not just the temporary, super-hot jolt of energy. That part made her grab him and devour his kiss—her first real kiss—and he was obviously aroused by it too. But after he’d fled, and the horror of his Fall had fully sunk in, she still felt his blessing glow inside her. It had healed parts of her that she hadn’t known were broken.

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