Semi-Fallen by Isabel Jordan

Author:Isabel Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Isabel Jordan

CHAPTER 17

Lane jackknifed up in bed with absolutely no idea what had pulled her out of such a deep sleep.

One minute, she’d been tucking herself into bed to rest up for visiting the heavenly library, and the next, she was wide awake like something had ripped her, kicking and screaming, right out of her pleasant dreams.

She shoved her disheveled hair out of her face and squinted, hoping her eyes would soon adjust to the nearly pitch-black room. She couldn’t quite see yet, but the room didn’t feel right. It felt bigger. More open.

That’s when something smacked her thigh and she jolted like she’d been hit with a live wire. She’d already leapt to her feet in the bed and fallen into a fighting stance when she finally realized where she was.

Lucien’s bed.

He was tossing, turning, and fighting in his sleep as if the very air around them was trying to destroy him. Dropping to her knees beside him, she could see his mouth moving, but couldn’t read any distinct words on his lips except for two.

Help me.

He must’ve teleported her here unconsciously because he needed her.

Tears clouded her vision as she laid a trembling hand on his sweat-dampened chest. This wasn’t just a nightmare. If she had to guess, she’d say it was a memory of a time he’d been so scared, so hurt, so beaten, that he’d begged for help.

Help that had never come.

Damn it. She’d never felt as helpless as she did in that moment. Here she was, arguably one of the strongest demon hunters in Section 8, supposedly a Nephilim powerful enough to destroy Heaven, and she couldn’t do one damn thing to ease his suffering.

Lane didn’t have too much time to ponder that, though, because before she could do anything to try and wake him, he shot up, clamped his hands around her throat, and rolled her under him, straddling her hips, pinning her to the mattress with his superior strength and body weight.

His eyes were open but unfocused as stared down at her, teeth bared in a feral snarl, hands tightening slightly around her throat. She could’ve bucked him off or freed one of her hands to gouge his eyes, but in his current state, she wasn’t sure how he’d respond. Hurting or incapacitating him might make him more violent.

Plus, there was the simple fact that hurting him was the very last thing in the world she wanted to do. Which left her with only one option.

Wrapping her hands gently around his wrists, she pulled with just enough strength to keep him from cutting off her air and whispered his name.

His eyes closed and he took a deep breath through his nose before she read her name on his lips.

Lucien tried to pull his hands away, but she held him firm. Some gut-deep instinct told her that if he pushed her away now, she’d have zero chance of breaking down the wall he seemed so intent on putting up around his heart.

And she was going to take a brick of C-fucking-4 to that wall if it was the last thing she ever did.

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