Fear the Fall (Fallen Hunters #1) by Melissa Winters

Author:Melissa Winters [Winters, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798530578021
Google: ApXpzgEACAAJ
Amazon: B096YDY9BK
Goodreads: 58563997
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2021-07-06T23:00:00+00:00

When we’re back at the loft, Zeke holds me in his arms and strokes my hair. I haven’t stopped shaking since the cemetery.

“Baby, you’re safe,” Zeke coos in my ear. “They were just playing a horrible prank.”

If only that were the reason for my trembling.

“Angels don’t prank, Zeke.” My teeth chatter. The cold that slipped under my skin is bone deep and not retreating, no matter how many blankets he layers me with.

“On Earth they do.” He inhales. “They won’t get away with anything like that again.”

They being Leeanna and Malachi. Two angels who at one time were my family. We had each other’s backs. Now, they’d throw me to the wolves. The sequence of the night’s events runs through my head and keeps getting stuck on the interaction between Zeke and Leeanna. So many strange comments and looks of longing. I might never unsee them.

I’m torn between wanting Zeke here and wanting him far away from me. He came to my defense, but his affection for Leeanna is clear to anyone with half a brain. With that thought, the chills subside and give way to a burning anger. An unfair anger.

“Are you going to tell me what was up between you and Lee?” I say her name with disdain I can’t help.

Not only were we once friends, but I’d been her mentor. Didn’t that count for something? I didn’t fall to betray her. I fell because I was duped. She’s an angel; she surely knows the entire sordid story.

“We were in the same legion,” Zeke starts, sounding resigned to this conversation but disinclined nonetheless. “We went to Earth often, and each time we were there our feelings . . . ,” he says through his teeth, as though the admission hurts, “grew.”

I puff out my cheeks, wondering how the heck that worked once they got back to Heaven, and he doesn’t disappoint, moving right into that topic.

“When we’d return, things went back to normal, for the most part. But with each trip back to Earth, when we returned, a little bit of those feelings came back too.” He runs a hand down his face. “We decided to fall together,” he admits, and my mouth forms an O in surprise at this turn of events. “Needless to say, I fell, and she didn’t.”

“Oh. Wow,” I say, processing this news. “Let me make sure I understand this,” I say, not trying to come off as hoity-toity, but truly wanting to understand. “You fell in love with an angel, decided to fall together, and when the time came you did, and she chose to let you fall without following.”

I want to push and nag for more sordid details, because that’s my current mental state, self-sabotage. Zeke doesn’t allow it, pushing forward and making it clear the entire conversation has him vexed.

“That pretty much sums it up,” he says.

“I’m sorry, Zeke. That’s . . . awful.”

I mean every word. I don’t like it, but I care for him. He was as duped into falling as I was, and it isn’t fair.

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