Redemption by Christina Phillips

Author:Christina Phillips [Phillips, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648004189
Publisher: Phoenix 18 Publishing

Chapter 18

Gabe

Before meeting Aurora, Gabe would never have considered such a theory had a hope of success. Even discounting the inherent danger of the Guardians, the likelihood of a mortal managing to breach dimensions was mind-boggling.

And that didn’t even touch on the tricky question of finding the right parallel dimension in the first place.

Then again, nothing about her actions had been random. She knew exactly where she was going.

To the world where half of her DNA originated.

“You had it all worked out.” He couldn’t prevent the thread of admiration in his tone. It wasn’t her fault she’d been ignorant of the ancient protocols.

“I thought so. It’s a shame I didn’t have a Plan B for when an avenging archangel swept me off my feet, though.”

He still had no idea how that had happened. But one thing was for sure. “Lucky I did.”

“Gabe.” There was a cautious note in her voice he didn’t like. She must know by now she could say anything to him, without judgment. “Please tell me you’ve come across this before. I can’t be the only one whose parents are from different dimensions.”

Ah, gods. He wanted to reassure her. Tell her of course she wasn’t the only one. To ease the fear he could so easily guess was churning through her psyche.

The words hovered in his mind, loathed, yet so apt.

The fear that she was an anomaly of creation.

Yet he couldn’t lie to her, because it wouldn’t change the truth, and she deserved nothing less. But as he gazed into her eyes, a truly outrageous notion rocked his existence.

Just because he had never known this to happen before didn’t mean it hadn’t.

It wasn’t possible. Something of that magnitude would be common knowledge among the elite immortals. Even if it was never spoken of. And whether the Alphas liked it or not, archangels were numbered among the elite.

But no one had known of Aurora.

“You’re the first I’ve encountered.” His voice was low. She flinched, as though he’d inflicted a blow, and he sucked in a deep breath. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you are the only one.”

“But you wouldn’t bet on it?” She sighed and squeezed his fingers. “Thanks, anyway. Nothing like having it confirmed from the highest power that you’re a total freak of nature.”

“Highest power?” he mocked, but her smile was half-hearted. It was obvious he’d just crushed one of her most secretly held hopes. “Hey, cheer up. You’re in great company. I’ve been called that and far worse in my time.”

“I find that hard to believe.”

“I know, right?” He smirked and flexed his muscles and was rewarded when she laughed. He didn’t usually find anything amusing when he recalled the origins of his creation and the bitter fallout that followed. “I’m beyond perfection.”

“And so modest, too.”

He wound chestnut strands of her damp hair around his finger and gently tugged. He was so tempted to stay with her, but he needed to work. “Let me show you how to access the intergalactic web before I leave.

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