Angel's Light by Aimee Robinson

Author:Aimee Robinson [Robinson, Aimee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: AMR Publishing LLC

Chapter 19

The sun was finally submitting to the night when Chrome dragged his tattered body over the den’s threshold. The blood running down his back had dried at some point, stiffening his skin and causing the gashes to bleed anew with each step he took. What remained of his shirt had been scorched onto his flesh in streamers and shreds. One particularly painful scrap had adhered itself rather artfully across his left nipple, its edges seared to his areola. That’d be a bitch to deal with.

He barely made it to the couch before he collapsed. Blood crusted over his left eye, which had already swollen shut, so he couldn’t see how Tungsten, Iron, and Steel fared. Judging from the grunting and panting, they weren’t much better.

Chrome hinged his upper body off the cushions since his ass was the only thing on him that could deal with the pressure of sitting upright. Slowly, he unclipped every firearm and weapon strapped to him. Thousands of dollars’ worth of metal machinery plunked to the floor like discarded clothes. He’d already ditched all his ammo clips hours earlier after emptying them into every demon that swiped across his nose. Repeatedly.

Tung hobbled toward the dining table, favoring his left leg, and dropped onto the bench seat. His bloody brow immediately hit his folded arms still bulging with muscle strain. That golden mane of shoulder-length hair covered a split lip and fractured cheekbone Chrome in no way envied. Steel, who had just returned from visiting Bridget that morning, supported a semiconscious Iron through the great room. The russet-haired giant’s right foot was cranked at an odd angle, and his entire left side was charred with acidic corrosion and pitting. Bits of rust flaked off onto the floor as Steel all but carried their brother to his suite of rooms to heal.

Steel’s injuries, at least the ones he let anyone see, had been minor, thank the mages. Chrome closed his eyes and did his best to take in a breath of gratitude through his broken nose for that small mercy. Suffering wasn’t discriminatory, but if any of his brothers had earned the right to be spared its misery just this once, it was Steel. That angel had been dealt the shitty short straw more times than Chrome could count. One could only handle so many demons, both personal and realized.

After today, Chrome considered himself a fucking expert on that particular subject.

“It’s done. For now, at least.” Tungsten’s regal, yet slightly muffled words sank to the floor with a finality neither of them truly felt. It was the same after every battle. The killing only got easier due to practiced moves and honed responses.

The mindfuck afterward was the cleanup on aisle four no one wanted any part of.

“Maybe,” Chrome whispered, his throat cutting off the word with a cough.

Chrome hadn’t even waited for his truck’s tires to peel away before his course of action was set. He trusted Titan and the others to take care of what needed taking care of.

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