Hellsbane 01 - Hellsbane by Paige Cuccaro

Author:Paige Cuccaro [Cuccaro, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, demons, angels, paige cuccaro, entangled, fallen
ISBN: 9781937044657
Google: SkBKkgEACAAJ
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2011-12-06T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

I didn’t need to know what was on the other side of Tommy’s apartment door, just that there was another side. The speed at which I could move actually gave me more time to make decisions.

Eli had said it was some weird space-time thing. I didn’t really understand. Somehow, moving that fast, I put myself out of sync with everything else. So, once I was on the other side of the door, I’d have time to take in my surroundings and decide where I wanted to stop, thereby avoiding the chance of stopping inside something unpleasant…like a wall.

Not that I thought there’d be a wall directly on the other side of the door, but you never know. As long as I kept moving, I was golden. It had taken a while to get used to, but I had it down now.

After a deep breath, I pictured myself standing on the other side of Tommy’s apartment door. Then I took a step. With my next I slammed hard into the door. I hadn’t passed through it—I’d run faster than the speed of light right into it.

That hurt.

A lot.

But the door didn’t give an inch. I ran so hard into it every molecule of breath exploded from my lungs and stars spun in circles behind my eyes. If not for a reflexive head flinch, I would’ve broken my nose again.

Staring at the door, my mouth agape, I looked to Eli, who had appeared beside it. “What was that?”

“That is what I was trying to tell you,” he said. “There’s still a lot you don’t know, and I can’t possibly tell you everything at once. Some things must be learned as you go—with me at your side. That’s why I’m here…on earth.”

“Whatever.” I’d taken a quick shower to wash off the blood and demon gunk, gotten a fresh set of jeans and T-shirt, and headed over to Tommy’s place the second Eli had given me the address.

“So spill it,” I said, knotting my arms across my chest. “What just happened?”

“You have to remember you’re not pure human,” he said. “Your angelic half encompasses equal amounts in your system and makes you, or at least that half of you, susceptible to the same rules as your father.”

“Which has to do with this…how?”

“Free will,” he said, then gave a nod toward Tommy’s door. “This is the physical threshold to a human’s private realm. Access to it cannot be gained by use of angelic power unless the angel has already been welcomed in.”

“I thought that was just demons and vampires.” I shook my head at the sentence. Weird to think I’d used demons and vampires in a serious conversation. Moving on.

“It’s true for anyone possessing angelic blood.”

“So that’s why Tommy didn’t just pop into my house that first day?” I said. “I’d never invited him?”

“Exactly.”

“But after he’d been invited he could pop in any time he wanted.”

“Yes,” Eli said.

“So, can I walk in the normal way?”

Eli leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb. “Of course. Humans ignore others’ free will every day.

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