Fallen Angel 1: Ashes of Eden by J.L. Myers

Author:J.L. Myers [Myers, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fallen Angel Series Book 1
Published: 2018-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Lucifer smashed the glowing pin into the cuff around his ankle. There was a pop, and he caught the heated restraint before it could clatter to the ground. Waiting a moment, he listened for Michael’s return. But there was no noise. No one had heard him.

With the manacle placed silently on the floor, Lucifer clicked his fingers—finally able to traverse now that he was unchained. The light of the scribe vault around him glowed brighter for a heartbeat, and then he was out.

His wings flung out wide, catching the rushing wind that greeted his fall and had him soaring. It was glorious: the freedom, the scent of fresh air, the feeling of rushing wind ruffling his wings that had been immobile for too long now. His wings, though they stung while healing their small fractures, made him feel strong again—free again.

While the fall was freeing and exhilarating, it was not what had forced him to defy orders and escape. It was equally not what had him wishing he could traverse lower rather than having to fly out the distance between Heaven and Earth. Gabriel and seeing her in the flesh, watching over her protectively in the shadows, was his only real motivation.

When Lucifer had been falling for what felt like a small eternity and had tightened his freedom into a doomed sense of fading time, he worried that he would be intercepted, that Michael could have returned and discovered him missing. But then, finally, he saw clarity in the world below as it rushed up to greet him.

Finding the place he needed to be below amongst the patches of green and brown and blue, he maneuvered his body, letting his arms fall flatter to his sides. His wings folded in tight against his body, only their outer edges extended a fraction to direct his dive.

Faster and faster the earth rose up, the air batting his face and whipping over and through his damaged robe. The closer he got the more his anticipation heightened. His original plan had been to merely see her, to glimpse her from a distance that was not a world away, to protect her in his disobedience. But as he neared and the teasing tingle of her presence resonated in him, his plans changed. She would sense him, of course she would. And if she failed to take flight to avoid him, he would have no choice. He would have to go to her. The words he hadn’t uttered to her the day they were torn apart were still on his lips, burning with the refusal to be swallowed down and ignored.

The details of swirling rivers and rocky mountains rose up, and then the leaves in the trees and the blades of golden grasses did too. Right outside a peasant village of huts and man-built dwellings as the sun fell towards the mountains, there she was. In that same grazing field among puffs of fluffy white sheep. The enormous structure was impossible to miss, a towering ark of curved wood now tall enough for the villagers to glimpse that sat upon the land.

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