Misguided Angel: A Parnormal Romance Novella by Lucy Blue

Author:Lucy Blue [Blue, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Falstaff Crush
Published: 2018-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

The Nymph in the Hallway

Asher caught Kelsey as she crumpled, scooping her up in his arms. “No,” she said, pushing against his chest. “Put me down; I’m fine. You’re the one who’s hurt.”

“I’m not hurt,” he promised, carrying her up the stairs.

“You need an ambulance,” she insisted. “You’re just in shock. He shot you—I saw it.” She twisted in his arms, risking being dropped two flights to push back his coat from his shoulder. “Right here.” The burned hole was still there, but the flesh underneath was already healing. He had to concentrate to keep it open at all.

“The bullet barely grazed me.”

“Bullshit…I saw…” She faltered, pushing back his shirt to examine the scratch. “Put me down.”

He obliged her, though it wasn’t easy. He wanted to keep hold of her. His heart was pounding. He was shaking all over. He couldn’t stop seeing her being slammed against the wall by Lucifer’s minions, couldn’t stop hearing her screams in his head. He wanted to hold her tight against him, feel her heartbeat, the warmth of her skin, listen to her breath until his own heart stopped pounding. But to her, he was all but a stranger. He had to let her go.

She ran her hands over his chest, touching all the rips and slashes in his shirt and coat, and it was all he could manage not to grab her again. “Kelsey…”

“The other one cut you,” she said, unbuttoning his shirt. “I saw him. I saw the knife—I felt that knife.” She touched her own throat, staring wide-eyed at his bare chest. The cuts from the demon’s earthly knife were already healed over, but the deep scratches from his unholy fangs and claws were festering, hot and ugly as a brand. “Oh my God…”

“They were whacked out of their minds,” he said, trying to sound normal, a mortal man who had just escaped disaster. “I barely saw them; it happened so fast.”

“He knew you,” she said, her eyes widening as they met his. “He called you by name. You ripped his arm completely off.”

“Adrenaline,” he started to explain. But she was falling, her eyes rolling back in her head. “Kelsey!” He caught her just before she fell back down the stairs.

“Kelsey?” A door opened—4B. “Oh my God!” A woman came out, petite, middle-aged. But no, he realized as she came closer and he smelled the sweet, earthy scent of her and saw the warm glow of her aura. Not a woman at all. “What happened?” She looked up at his face and gasped, recognizing him for what he was, too. “Well, what do you know?” she said with a tentative smile.

“What are you doing here?” He shifted Kelsey back into his arms, and the pagan nymph came to help, turning the unconscious woman’s head to rest against his shoulder.

“The same as you at the moment,” she said, brushing Kelsey’s hair back from her eyes. “Protecting this poor mortal.” She murmured some pointless incantation under her breath as her fingers danced lightly over Kelsey’s skull and down her neck as if checking for injuries.

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