bedeviled & beyond 06 - bedeviled & befouled by cheever sam

Author:cheever, sam [cheever, sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fantasy & futuristic romance, Demons & Devils urban fantasy, books romance angels & devils, science fiction romance angels & devils, books futuristic romance, Romantic Comedy, humorous paranormal romance
Publisher: Electric Prose Publications
Published: 2015-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Dumped!

Amid agony and loss, young miss is cast aside,

Her heart has just been tossed, to save her hero’s hide.

I didn’t even know I was falling until my knees cracked against the floor. Pain shot up my legs and I barely noticed. I closed my eyes, trying to breathe past the agony searing my chest. Hard hands grabbed my shoulders, dragging me upward. I opened my eyes, hoping Dialle had returned. I looked up into a velvet-black gaze filled with sorrow.

Hot tears slipped down my cheeks, dripping off my chin. “Emo. He left me. Oh god, he threw me away.”

My friend pulled me against his chest, murmuring nonsense words that were meant to comfort. They pinged uselessly off the dense armor of my pain. Nothing could touch the icy hole in my chest.

Emo lifted me into his arms and I wilted against him, allowing him to carry me up the stairs. I didn’t know where he was taking me. Didn’t care. I only wanted to curl into the fetal position and die. He laid me on my bed and stretched out next to me, wrapping his long body around mine. I shuddered against him, numb with horror. I felt so empty. So cold.

Emo yanked a blanket up to cover me and kissed my forehead. “Just let it go, Astra. Get it all out.”

But I couldn’t let it go...because it would consume me in a flash flame of sheer agony. I shook my head, grabbing Emo’s hand and clutching it as I shivered until my teeth clacked together. Locking my muscles against the need to cry, I forced the tears back.

Emo placed a hand on my face. “Sleep, Astra. Rest. When you wake up it will be over.”

Drowsiness slipped over me, softening the muscles I’d braced against the pain. My mind went muzzy with fatigue. “What did you...” The words trailed away, lost on a cloud of black oblivion. And I started to drift. The bed dipped and Emo’s heat left me. Something niggled. My mind struggled against the imperative of sleep. There was something I needed to do. Something important.

Something having to do with Dialle.

Sleep beckoned me with velvet arms. I sighed, sinking into the mattress. My thoughts scattered and I lost the nugget of my concern...felt it drift away...then a single thought pulsed through the enticing waves of nothingness. Where was Emo going?

Shit! I dragged myself back toward consciousness. Terror clutching urgent fingers around my heart. I shoved at the mattress, forcing myself into a sitting position. I panted against a wave of dizziness and then dragged the covers back. Emo must have put me under some kind of sleep spell.

My feet touched the floor. Slayer, I need you.

Astra? What’s wrong?

I’m in my room. I need your help.

The air thickened in front of me and Slayer was standing there. He took one look at me and frowned. “You look like hell. What happened?”

I shook my head and stood, grabbing his arm as my head swam. “It doesn’t matter. I need you to take me to the Royal Court.

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