Halo of Light - Cin and Gui (Book 1): Delta Underground Operatives by N.A. Grotepas

Author:N.A. Grotepas [Grotepas, N.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CIN

The darkness in my room in the DUO headquarters was complete, which made sense, being that I was in the heart of a mountain.

Like a dwarf.

Were my eyes closed? I couldn’t tell. It felt like they were. But at this level of pitch black, either could be true: open or closed, it made no difference.

There was absolutely no light anywhere. I may as well have been blind.

The bed was fine, no complaints there, but I thoroughly missed Bastet. It would have been nice to feel her curled up beside me, or on my pillow like it was made for her. Or on my chest, her other favorite spot, crushing me.

After Gui left, I settled into the room. I took a shower to wash the stench of the Puddle off me. It didn’t literally stink, but it was a trickster energy and I wanted it gone. The kind that knew my weaknesses and had exploited them. The kind that I didn’t trust.

The coin that would be my switch to activate the Puddle had already been set in an amulet and placed on a gold chain at my request. Moxie had taken us past her section of the HQ where one of her underling techs had quickly done it for me. As I thought about it right then, the weight of the dime-sized coin pressed against the center of my breastbone. One side was now embossed with a gun that looked exactly like the Browning Hi Power. The other, a spell tome. Why it had chosen a spell tome—which I couldn’t use anyway—was beyond me. It smacked of sarcasm. Like the damn Puddle knew all my darkest desires. Like it knew that I stole books for Audrey and lusted after them with an unholy hunger for something that could never be mine: a different kind of power. A power that lived outside me that could be shaped and honed into the sharpest blade, sharper than my innate powers ever dreamed of being.

The total darkness of my room was getting to me. I sighed, it was time to think about something else. I conjured the image of Bastet. I thought of her purr right next to my cheek where she sometimes curled up, in the crook of my neck with her spine against my collar bone.

Still. Even with my eyes closed, or open—impossible to tell—I couldn’t get the image of being in the Puddle with Gui out of my head. I couldn’t get rid of the feeling of his body holding me against him so tight, resisting the powerful current of water.

Effortlessly.

I sighed.

Effortlessly.

That of course reminded me of other things he’d done effortlessly, the stupid angel. Like he was made to just do miraculous things. Healing Bastet. Flying away from the shadow wraith with me in his arms like some kind of heroic Clark Kent-Superman nerd.

I’ve never even cared about Superman, let alone fantasized about being rescued by him. But now that it’d happened, it was infuriatingly incredible. The flying part. Not the rescuing part.

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