Halo of Night - Cin and Gui (Book 2): Delta Underground Operatives by N.A. Grotepas

Author:N.A. Grotepas [Grotepas, N.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

CIN

In fairness to myself, I didn’t want to go out with Julius.

But my partner had all but vanished from the mortal plane and I’d not heard from him since.

He didn’t answer Alder’s calls. He didn’t answer my calls. And when I tried to touch his… whatever… through our bond, I’d been flattened like I was a fly getting zapped by one of those inhumane blue-light bug zapper things. I was sure there was a better metaphor for what had happened, but I blamed whatever my mind had touched that I couldn’t come up with a better way to explain it.

I’d been a bit mentally incapacitated since that had happened. Almost like a section of my brain had been excised or paralyzed or like I’d been barred from accessing it.

The fancy New York Public Library EMT who I just couldn’t shake had finally succeeded in getting me into a position where we could be alone. Not that I’d been actively preventing that. Consciously. As the suspicious woman that I was, I figured that this would be a good time to dig into Julius’s story. Maybe I’d find out some things about him—that was another reason I was going along with it. Not that I wanted a single thing from him other than the sexy illuminated manuscript I couldn’t get out of my head. He might be an access point. And I was aware of how terrible that could potentially make me look, but I was doing it for the women who kept dying because of me.

As the EMT waltzed into Books and Broomsticks, I was robbed of breath at seeing him. He was really quite stunning in a very human way. Not that I was thinking about the angel and how he was stunning in an otherworldly way, although he was. Julius had mysterious dark brown eyes shaded by swooping dark eyebrows. Even the hooded nature of his eyelids did something to my stomach that I didn’t want to acknowledge. And his smile was enough to undo fifteen deadbolts on any woman’s chastity belt.

Not that I wore one of those, though I was sure I had one or two exes who would argue otherwise.

“Hello, Audrey. Hello, Malcolm,” Julius said, standing beside the counter. He positioned himself in the place where Gui had taken to occupying. Julius eased into it like a human male and leaned his forearms on the cash wrap. The countertop was mostly empty, but the glass case itself was full of Audrey’s most priceless books about Jewish Kabbalah and magical grimoires for contacting angels.

Huh. That was actually the first time I’d noticed the correlation.

In any case, Gui typically stood very still, not even touching the countertop. He simply stood beside it, almost like a piece of furniture. Like a coatrack.

Meanwhile, Julius was very comfortable and casual like he belonged there.

Handsome or not, it grated on me.

“Let’s go,” I said, before Audrey and Malcolm could strike up a conversation with Julius the angel’s-spot interloper.

“Where are you two headed?” Malcolm asked.

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