Divinity Falling by Nour Zikra

Author:Nour Zikra [Zikra, Nour]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Lightbringer Publishing
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

ADELAIDE

Adriel winced in his seat. His eyes had been shut for some time, but he kept panting and groaning. I parked the car in front of a motel just a few minutes from Saint Vincent College and waited for Adriel to wake up. His hands fisted. Every vein in his body seemed tense. It was the tears, though, that broke me. What is he dreaming about?

“Adriel?” I shook his shoulder gently. “You okay?”

His fingers uncurled. He reached out and clenched my forearm with both of his hands.

“Adriel?”

Like iron claws, his grip was tight, too tight. Blue veins swelled in his wrists. I fought to free my hand, but he was strong even in this sleeping state.

“Adriel, please!”

The color had drained from my hand. If he kept squeezing, I had a feeling my tiny wrist would break.

His eyes shot open and he stared ahead like he didn’t know where he was. For a few seconds, he just blinked. When he looked at me, tears dripping down his cheeks, his chest expanded and he let out a sigh.

“Addy . . .” Looking down, he noticed his grip on my hand and released it. “I’m so sorry.”

“What happened?”

Wiping the tears off his face, he rested his head back against the headrest. “I had a vision, but it wasn’t like anything I’ve seen before.”

“What do you mean?”

He rubbed his left shoulder and winced, his hair falling across his face.

“I saw Michael.” He looked at me through red, wet eyes.

In my head, I went through a list of faces I knew. I thought of my coworkers, who I hadn’t seen since last Thursday, just before my entire life turned upside down. I even thought of people I’d seen at Euphoria, like Lukas and some of the bartenders. When I couldn’t match a face with the name, I said, “Who’s Michael?”

“The archangel.”

“What?”

“I saw the archangel Michael in the vision. Actually, I saw him in my dream, and he showed me a vision.” Removing his muscular hand from his shoulder, he brought it to my face. “You were there too.” His fingers entwined in my hair, right behind my ear.

His skin was warm against mine, but the good kind of warm. He didn’t feel like the burning heat coming from deep within me. Without thinking, I leaned into his touch, my eyes closing for a sliver of a second. He responded by pulling my face toward his. When I was mere inches from him, he stopped.

It would have been a lie if I said I didn’t want him to kiss me again. Still, when I remembered how he’d treated me just a few hours ago after kissing me, I resolved not to let it happen a second time.

Maybe it was exhaustion, but his eyes drooped in the outer corners, making him look somewhat sad. He let out a breath, one that traveled in a straight line and touched my mouth.

Shaking my head, I pulled away. “What was the vision?”

As if I had shaken him from a deep slumber, he sat straight in his seat, his eyes wide.

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