Reckless Radiance by Roth Kate

Author:Roth, Kate [Roth, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kate Roth Writes
Published: 2014-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

The boy was stirring, waking from a deep sleep. Russell placed his hand on the edge of the bed. The eyes he had known for nearly five years turned to him and smiled. It was only a year ago he’d shown himself to the boy. Man. He supposed he was a man now. He was out of school and engaged to be married. He was a man.

“Hey,” Gabriel said in a croaking voice.

Russell smiled half-heartedly and nodded at Gabriel. Five years prior he’d been assigned as his Guardian. A few days in when Russell saw the changes in the boy’s body, he understood. He watched, invisible to all those around him, including Gabriel, as the cells in Gabriel’s brain started shifting and turning black. It wasn’t his place to intervene. He couldn’t heal him or even whisper in his ear to see a doctor immediately. He was there to watch over him and when he needed it most, he was to share his Serenity with the boy and will away his fear.

Russell showed himself to Gabriel a few days after Valerie learned about the tumor. Gabriel was distraught, afraid of losing her. When the boy laid eyes on Russell’s human form for the first time, he wasn’t confused or in denial about Russell’s explanation. He accepted it and expressed gratitude for Russell immediately.

Russell had never had such an experience with a human. He had only ever shown himself to one other that he had Guarded and she was very frightened in the last moments of her life. He ended up overdosing her on his Serenity as a fellow angel, Cassandra, a member of the message and judgment department called The Order, came to Usher her to The Gates. Gabriel was so different from the other mortals Russell had known. Gabriel was brave and his strength and faith remained unshaken by his disease. He had but one care in the world. Valerie.

“I know it’s not time yet. I even think I may have a while but I need you to do something for me,” Gabriel said as he sat up in bed. His hair had already been shorn close to his scalp so the hair loss from his chemotherapy would be less noticeable but Russell’s supreme vision picked out the patches of bald skin.

“Of course,” Russell replied. He wasn’t necessarily in the business of granting favors. He wasn’t even sure it was allowed but if putting Gabriel’s mind at ease about something would help him then Russell would try to do his best.

“I need you to watch out for her when I’m gone,” he said, his eyes staying firmly locked to Russell’s. Russell marveled at the crystalline sky blue color of his charge’s eyes until the day he took it upon himself to replicate the color in his own form. When he was initially choosing a form he thought he had found the most aesthetically pleasing combination until he saw the unmatched beauty of Gabriel’s eyes. He wanted the color for himself not only for their beauty but also as a tribute to the boy.

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