Repent in Love by J. Hali Steele

Author:J. Hali Steele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

God Loves you, God forgives you and I absolve you of all your sins.

Dejected, the man looked like he did not have a friend in the world. Uri knew that feeling. But not today. Today he felt like king of the hill. He would absolve Satan himself if he appeared.

“You must have had a good evening.” Ram chuckled behind him.

“Go to hell.”

“Aww, come on, things aren’t that bad.” Coming around the park bench, he eased down beside Uri, and after stretching his long legs, he laced his hands behind his head. “Sam will leave you be for a while.”

It burned his ass that Ram kept pulling his behind out of the fire. “Thanks.”

“I’ve been where you are; I understand. But this is different.”

He turned to look at the angel of hope. “You’re ruining my day, man. Why is it different?” Bitterness tugged at his mouth. “Why have you always gotten everything you wanted?”

“Take it easy, Uri, I didn’t bring this down on you.”

He remembered when archangels worked for the common goal of salvation for all humankind. Ram and he had screwed around together—literally—more than the others. Hope, repent. Repent, hope, they went hand-in-hand. Those days were gone. Over the years they’d all grown in different directions. In their earthly domains, they weren’t that different from man anymore. There were petty jealousies, arguments and brawls. He couldn’t remember anymore what being more manlike was supposed to accomplish.

At times the angel next to him reminded him so much of Michael it was uncanny. Something Uri intended to ponder later, but not today. Ram damn near even had the general’s power now with Yael by his side.

Heaven’s fear of Uri aligning himself with Morta made sense in a way.

Always a rebel, he had to fight tooth and nail for everything he had. Ever since his debacle with Goliath he’d been pushed aside. Fucking Nephilim, they were all alike.

“That was you?” Ram leaned forward to look at him. He laughed so loud heads turned. There went their low profile. “I’ll be a son of a bitch! All these years I wondered what happened.”

“Shut up, and stay out of my head.” Shit, he’d been careless. “Not a word, I mean it.” He glared at the archangel beside him.

“Who else knows, well aside from Michael and the Father?”

“Luke. Bastard was there egging me on. But I don’t want to talk about it.” He nailed Ram with a look. “How did you stand it before Yael was truly yours?”

“I don’t know; those days are a blur.” Ram scratched his head. “Why do I remind you of Michael?”

The man he’d been called to stirred on the bench across from them, providing Uri with an excellent reason not to answer Ram’s question. The guy’s wife had been involved in an accident and he’d spent the last hour fervently praying for forgiveness. Swore he’d never sin again. Uri wanted to rap him upside his head. Humans didn’t know how lucky they were sometimes. This man’s wife would have died for him, almost did.

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