Till Heaven Do Us Part by Nadine Mutas

Author:Nadine Mutas [Mutas, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nadine Mutas

Once more, Azazel touched down in my mom’s backyard with my spirit form in his arms. Night had fallen, bathing the yard in velvet darkness but for the faint light coming from a room on the side of the house. My mom’s bedroom, I knew.

She was still up.

The echo of my heart pounded through my ghost form as Azazel set me on my feet. Grabbing his hand, I turned to the house and hurried inside. At the back entrance, he let go of my hand in favor of opening the door and slipping inside.

“You can walk through walls,” he said quietly. “I can’t.”

Right.

With a nod, I turned around again, crossed the kitchen, and went into the hallway, toward the sliver of light falling through the cracked door to my mom’s bedroom. There, I halted, my pulse racing.

Clenching and unclenching my hands several times, I gathered my nerves. Then I focused on making myself visible. The telltale tingle spread over me, letting me know it’d worked.

Zoe, Azazel hissed in my head, then grabbed my arm and pulled me back from the cracked door before I could walk through it. What the fuck are you doing?

I faced him with defiance lifting my chin. Letting my mom see me.

For the first time since I’d gone to Hell with him. One whole painful year of keeping myself invisible, hidden from her gaze, unable to tell her that I hadn’t, in fact, died a horrible death as a victim of some violent crime. The fact that I’d had to let my mom suffer from never having closure, watching her vacillate between believing she might still find me one day and the devastating acceptance of the possibility I’d truly been murdered, it had broken some essential, soft part of my soul.

You can’t let her see you, Azazel said along our mental pathway, his expression incredulous.

Why? I shot back. Because it would break her mind? She’s dying. If ever there was a moment to show myself to her, it’s now.

I could see that he wanted to argue, so I added, This is my only chance to talk to her. To let her know that I’m okay. My mental voice became brittle. I don’t want her to go thinking I suffered some horrible fate. She needs to know that I’m fine.

He clenched his jaw, the planes of his face hardening. And what if revealing yourself to her will damage her mind to the extent you won’t be able to talk to her? I don’t want your last memory of your mother to be of a woman lost in the broken labyrinth of her own mind. Old, old pain glimmered in his eyes. I know what that’s like.

I grabbed his hand, kissed his knuckles, and then pressed our entwined hands against my chest. I appreciate your protectiveness, I said softly. But this is my choice to make, not yours. I’m willing to take the risk.

For a long moment, he held my gaze, then he gave an imperceptible nod and released my hand.

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