Torn: A young adult paranormal romance (Breath of Fate Book 1) by Angelina J. Steffort

Author:Angelina J. Steffort [Steffort, Angelina J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MK
Published: 2020-11-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

When we arrived at the scene, my stomach turned. This wasn’t for the faint-hearted. Leon’s hand was still there on mine as we materialized in the crossing where a red van had been squished by a truck. The truck driver was being loaded into an ambulance while the driver of the van was being zipped up in a black body bag.

So, this was it. The first dying I had heard. I didn’t even know if it was a man or a woman—all I could tell was that the person’s life had abruptly ended.

“Any second now,” Leon said and pulled me closer toward the gurney where they were loading the deceased.

The pain in my chest had faded the moment we had taken off to follow the soul’s call. Now that I was less than three steps away from the target, I could feel the thrumming of the life—not the physical life of the human body but of the soul that was struggling to hatch—like a beat to the cacophony of shouts and orders among the firemen and paramedics, the words of speculation among the spectators who had gathered by the edge of the town.

Had I walked here from my home, it might have taken me twenty minutes or less, but traveling on angel essence, it had taken a blink of an eye.

“There,” Leon commented, guiding me along as we followed the gurney to an ambulance. “Can you feel it?” He didn’t wait for me to respond but let his head flip to the side with a frown. “I was wondering if this time you were going to grace us with your absence,” Leon said sourly, and I didn’t need to turn and look to know who he was talking to.

“There, there,” Cas said by way of greeting. “And then I thought you’d remember that you owe me a favor.”

Leon ground his teeth.

I remembered the Shadowbringer’s words as he had left Gran’s room at the nursing home.

“Have you come to call it in?” was all Leon said before Cas stepped into view, taking the opposite side of the gurney to gloat at us before he reached for the body bag as if he was going to open it.

I sucked in a breath, and Cas gave me a grin that made me wonder if that was what he had been taught in hell or if he had been born with it … given he had been born at all. How could anyone keep up with the specifics of that species?

“Not freezing today?” he asked me, shoving his free hand into his pocket, and leaned against the ambulance next to a paramedic who was writing a report.

I ignored him as best I could, reminding myself of what Leon had promised—that I would be safe with him; that the Shadowbringer wouldn’t try anything until the soul was secured.

“Oooh—” Cas grimaced, reading from the clipboard. “Broken neck and an open fracture of both thighs. The poor bastard bled out before help could even arrive.” He

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