Angel In Chains by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2024-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

When Jade opened her eyes, the whole world was spinning. She stumbled away from Az and nearly fell to the ground. Az’s reflexes were super fast though, and he caught her right before she could slam into the earth.

“Easy,” he breathed against her ear. “It’ll take your body a few minutes to adjust.”

Adjust to what? Nausea welled in her stomach, and she had to crouch, putting her head between her knees. “What just happened?”

“We moved very, very fast.”

Blinking, she glanced back up. The bayou was gone. They stood just a few feet from an arching cypress tree. Not just any cypress. She remembered staring up at this tree as she struggled to live.

Azrael paced away from her. He bent and studied the ground. She saw his shoulders tense.

The ground seemed to shake beneath her feet.

Jade sucked in a deep breath. Then another. She followed him on shaky legs and saw the bloody black feathers on the earth. The feathers were far too big to belong to a bird.

Come with me, Jade. It’s time for you to rest. She remembered the words, whispering through her mind, though she hadn’t told Az about them. She remembered the words and the angel who’d appeared.

Marna.

But Marna had never touched her. If the angel had, Jade knew she wouldn’t be there.

“Where’s his camp?” Az asked as he kept gazing at those feathers. “Where’s the hole that the bastard retreated to after he sliced her apart?”

Az glanced at her, and she went very still. His eyes weren’t blue now. They were demon black. And the rage in them stole her breath.

“Where would he go?” Az stalked toward her. “You know him. Know how he thinks. Where would the bastard set up his base?”

Close by. Jade stiffened her shaky knees as she pointed. “Probably across the water.” She knew this area. Now that the fog was gone, she recognized the place because she’d visited it in her youth. “They could have gone over on motorboats. From what I remember, there used to be a campsite over there. Lots of abandoned buildings.”

Az straightened and strode to the twisting pier. Gators slowly glided in the water.

She could just make out the old campsite. “He won’t have left the place undefended,” she warned him. “He’s too smart for that. He’s hunting, but he’ll have left a trap behind. Left men behind.”

“I was counting on that.”

The deadly promise in his voice made chill bumps rise on her arms. This Az—he was different. From the moment he’d found Marna in those woods, a coldness had crept over him.

“Let’s see how fast they die,” he announced even as he snagged her wrist. There was no warning this time. Just the wild rush of wind. The feel of a thousand skeletal hands on her body, and in the next instant, they were across the water. On the shore.

And she knew Az was about to hunt.

They’d appeared right in the middle of the area, less than two feet from a lounging shifter. When he saw them, the shifter let out a startled grunt and jumped toward them with his claws up.

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