Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh

Author:Nalini Singh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Azizex666, Adult
ISBN: 9780425226926
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-03-01T10:58:18+00:00

24

“My name is Elena,” she said softly, wondering if the woman even knew she was there. “You’re safe now.”

No response.

Backing out, she looked to Raphael. “She needs medical attention.”

“Illium will take her to our healer.” He came closer but the woman started whimpering at the first glimpse of his wings, her muscles locking so tight Elena knew they’d have to break her bones to release them.

“No.” She stood to block the view. “It needs to be one of the vampires. No wings.”

His mouth was a flat line, whether in anger or impatience, she couldn’t tell. But he didn’t seize control of the woman’s mind. “I’ve asked Dmitri to come. He’ll take care of her.”

Her heart froze. “As in kill her?”

“Perhaps she would welcome mercy.”

“You’re not God, to make that decision.”

Raphael’s face was a study in silence. “No harm will come to her while you are gone.”

She read between the lines. “And when I return?”

“Then I will decide if she dies or lives.” Eyes of blue fire. “She might be infected, Elena. We must test her. If she is, she has to die.”

“Infected?” She frowned, then shook her head. “I know—later.”

“Yes. Time is passing.” His head angled slightly to the left. “Dmitri comes, but he can’t approach until he poses no danger to the scent trail. Leave the woman—the leader of my Seven has a weakness for innocents caught in violence.”

Elena nodded at the oblique reassurance, and bent down. “Dmitri is going to help you. Please go with him.”

The woman didn’t stop rocking but she was no longer making that keening sound and her body wasn’t so tense. Praying that Dmitri would be able to get her out without harming her, she made her way back under the chain link and to the other side.

“Can you check the roof—see if there’s any sign he took off from there?” As Raphael nodded and flew up, she circled her way around the building. She finally found Uram’s exit point on the right side of the warehouse, a few feet from a gaping hole in the chain link.

Aware of Raphael following overhead, she made her way through the hole to the grassy wilderness of the neighboring lot. Blood coated the tips of the grass, as if Uram had run his hand along the top. She found a feather—a brilliant, silvery gray that shimmered with flecks of amber. Its delicate beauty was an insult, a mockery of the blood and suffering she’d seen inside the warehouse. Fighting the urge to crush it, she held it to her nose, drawing in the richness of Uram’s true scent. That bite of acid but other things, too. An edge of metal, a dark blade. Blood refined, she thought. Acid and blood and something else, something that spoke of . . . sunlight. She shivered, shoved the feather into her pocket, then carried on.

The scent simply ended in the middle of the lot. “Shit.” She put her hands on her hips and blew out a breath, waving Raphael down. He landed in a feat of pure grace.

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