Wings by Ellen Mint

Author:Ellen Mint [Mint, Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Reverse Harem Romance
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group
Published: 2022-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Garavel dropped me to my feet in the middle of the parking lot of an abandoned retail store. Whatever was once here was long gone, the windows crusted in dirt and all the lights inside dark. He flew past, having to maneuver to land and pull in his wings, just as another scream burst from inside.

A shadow ran past the ‘Out Of Business’ sign. I raised a finger to point, when it burst through the glass. Holy shit! A woman rolled across the pavement, a smear of blood trailing her. I dashed for her as Ink appeared and held me back.

“Something’s not right,” he said.

Garavel leaped into the air, flapping twice to land beside the poor screaming woman bleeding out on the handicapped parking spot. He scooped her up in his arms, his wings falling around her.

“Be calm, my young one.”

“Holy fucking shit, I’m dying! I don’t want to die,” she screamed in his face.

“What are you doing?” I tugged on Ink’s hold. He let go, but kept glaring.

“Can’t you feel it? The air is wrong.”

I threw my shoulders back, prepared to shrug him off, when the dread landed in my gut. The little bit of ice cream in my stomach curdled and I pitched back to escape the death undulating in the air. A whimper snared me in place.

“Do not worry, you are in luck. A witch is here.” Garavel raised his head from the dying woman and he held his hand out to me. Blood stained his pink palm and I took a step toward him.

“Layla…” Ink tried to warn me, but I shrugged him off.

“She’s hurt,” I said. Ink didn’t fight me, but he sighed loudly. Running across the baking pavement, I slid down to her, scraping my knees through my thin dress.

“Hi, I’m Layla,” I said as distraction. The whole of her skin was white as a sheet. Small bits of glass glittered inside her face from where she’d rammed through the door, but I knew better than to take them out.

“W-w-who are you?” she stuttered.

The only person that can keep you alive. I cupped my hand under her back and whispered my healing spell under my breath. “I’m a nurse,” I said.

“Th-th-ank…” Whoever she was going to thank faded as her eyes rolled back and she sank into sleep.

I fumbled to check a pulse, the two years of nursing studies amounting to damn near nothing as I held a dying woman in my arms. Her heartbeat was still there and steady. She looked to be breathing too. “Ink, get my phone.”

“This hardly seems the time for the great war of the ovine.”

“I need you to call nine-one-one,” I said through gritted teeth. She shouldn’t have passed out like this. The wounds on her arms and face were slowly healing, but I was worried about internal bleeding. Not to mention whatever had sent her careening through a glass door.

“While I would love nothing more than to inform your barber squad where to locate us, your phone is without life.

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