Undead Or Alive by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-10-23T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“You will not die.”

Something hard pressed on to her chest. Amber tried to get a breath but couldn’t and then—

Air. Air was filling her lungs. Power pulsed in her body. Her eyes opened.

Cass stared down at her. A deep gash was on his forehead, bleeding too much, and he stared at her with glittering eyes. With…

Fear?

“Fuck, yes,” he whispered. “You came back.” Then he yanked her into his arms. He held her tight, so tight that her bones ached, but she didn’t care. He was warm and strong and they were both alive.

Though she seriously had no clue about just how they’d survived. The last thing she remembered was him telling her to close her eyes. He’d pulled her close and then…

Oh, no. I called for Luke and Leo. She pushed against him. “We…we have to go.”

His mouth crashed onto hers. He kissed her with desperation and need and a dark desire that pulled at her very soul.

She wanted to keep kissing him back. But…they had some seriously big problems to deal with right then. Amber pulled her mouth from his. “We have to go!”

He tensed. His head lifted. His gaze was burning as he stared at her.

Burning…

Her nostrils flared as she became aware of the smoke and flames around her. Her head turned and she saw that they were in the middle of the wreckage. Chunks of the plane were on fire. Glass was everywhere. Fire. Hell.

“How did we survive?” They shouldn’t have. No way should they have made it.

“I’m Death,” he said simply.

She turned back to look at him, her heart tight in her chest.

“I’m Death and I have to walk the earth. One way or another…”

That was scary and she wasn’t even exactly sure what that meant.

“I tried to protect you from the impact. I knew I’d come back…it was you that wouldn’t.” His eyes glittered. “And you were so still. You weren’t breathing. I know death, but I don’t know life. And you needed life.”

He rose, and he lifted her up, holding her in his arms.

She could have walked, maybe. She wasn’t exactly sure of what injuries she had. Amber was a bit too stunned to take stock of things. “Why didn’t you die?” Amber whispered. That whole “I’d come back” part nagged at her.

“Who says I didn’t?”

What?

His hold tightened on her and he started walking away from the wreckage. Heading toward the line of trees. They seemed to have crashed near the edge of a swamp, and the twisting cypress trees were all around them.

Had he died? Had she? She didn’t want riddles, she wanted the truth and—

“The knife!” She grabbed for his shirt front. “I have to get the knife. I need it!”

“I already have it, sweets. I strapped it to my leg right after I boarded the plane.”

He’d…what? She didn’t remember seeing him do that. Sneaky Reaper.

“That was how I knew you hadn’t sabotaged the plane. Ivan did it. The bastard set us both up to die.”

“Why would he do that?”

“I worked with Ivan in the past…and Gregory worked with him, too.

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