When Devils Go To Heaven by C.B. Jean

Author:C.B. Jean [Jean, C.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Saint Cadieux

I had thought that after all these long and bloody years that the concept of death would never terrify me. That it would never bother me in the slightest. Would never make my hands tremble or make me feel restless and drained at the same time. It’s a familiar concept to me, in this line of work, for my brothers and me. We put our lives on the line every single day without worry and it has never bothered me before.

I had never thought that I had a single fear in this world. Not even my own death terrified me this much.

Every single day of my life was a constant battle and I embraced it fully, charging head-on as to welcome it with a greedy smile.

Saint Cadieux is not one that gets scared.

But as I stare down at a slow breathing Charlotte, laying there on our kitchen table looking like Death’s bride with shut eyes, with pale lips that no longer show her lively sheen and covered in dried blood, I now know what terrifies me. And the concept of something, someone, being able to affect me like this is another terror all in its own.

Her chest rises and drops in slow but even breaths, her eyelashes fluttering every so often. She’s alive. She’s alright.

I knew she would be, even as I pressed my hand tightly down on her bleeding stomach and held her tight underneath me in the back seat of the car, I knew she would be fine.

But.. fuck. Feeling the alarming amount of warm blood leave her body as it oozed through my fingers, watching it stain my own clothes a bright crimson, seeing her eyes close and her head lolls limply to the side even as she smiled up at me with her pouty lips had my heart stopping for a moment. I swear the insistent ticking against my chest bone even stuttered.

In that moment, after our kiss, after her eyes closed and didn’t open again, I vowed that I never wanted anything bad to happen to her again. I knew it was impossible to even try, a promise like that, but hell, I know I would try my damnedest from this day forward.

I wanted her with me forever. Not for her powers or abilities, but because she is precious, and I want her safe and happy. I could make her safe and happy.

I’ve changed. And even as I look down at her and think it, I won’t admit it to myself fully and that only pisses me off.

Too close. Too fucking close.

I’m all sorts of scared, pissed the hell off, and happy all at once, and I don’t know what to do about it.

How could this small female make me feel so many things at once? Why her? Why now? Why me?

My hand reaches out slowly to stroke her cold cheek, and I can’t help the corner of my mouth tilting up. Even now as she looks like a lifeless corpse I can’t help but feel as if I could startle her awake with a single touch.

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