Smitten by Magic by Erica Ridley

Author:Erica Ridley [Ridley, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erica Ridley

Chapter 8

Sarah stared at the new community center without moving a muscle. Javier was on the roof, a power drill tucked into his waistband, as he teetered on the apex.

They hadn’t spoken in days. Not that there’d been time for speaking. Javier had been far too busy throwing himself in harm’s way at every possible opportunity. The projects were moving faster than ever, but if she so much as blinked, her stubbornly altruistic human was going to gore himself on his own drill. Or snap his spine falling off the roof. Or tumble headfirst into a pile of machetes. Or all of the above.

He’d been hard enough to protect when he hadn’t had the slightest notion of her existence. Now that he knew the truth, it was almost impossible to keep him alive. She felt like she was the one balanced at the edge of a precipice. She needed to do everything in her power to salvage as much of the situation as possible before meeting her superiors. And now that her cover was blown, she really ought to go back to being invisible.

But she couldn’t bring herself to do it. Not now. Not anymore. Why should she?

She was so fired at her end-of-month debriefing, it wasn’t even funny. This would not only be her last assignment, it was also the last time she’d be allowed on Earth. They’d reassign her and wipe his mind and—

No. If she stayed as close to the spirit of the rules as possible, and avoided any flashy miracles, they might let her keep her position.

They might also erase her memory from Javier’s mind which, after finally being seen, was more than Sarah could bear to think about. But being a guardian angel wasn’t about one’s own selfish wants. The human realm was already grossly understaffed. If they lost her, too… that would be the greater tragedy.

Much as she might like to miracle everything in this town, she could not risk a short-term fix costing the world another guardian angel for the rest of eternity.

So, here she was. Watching over Javier, and Javier alone. Doing her best to keep her job. And, perhaps, to keep him. At least until he turned seventy.

At the moment, he and most of the men from the village and the neighboring pueblos were hard at work patching up the death bridge with strips of wood and leftover roof bits and plenty of sun-bleached rope. He was currently hanging upside down, sinking counter-nails into the underside of the bridge.

Javier called it “pulling a MacGyver.”

Sarah called it “madness.”

He was so hardheaded and softhearted that she could barely look at him without her throat closing up and her lips curving with pride. He was magnificent. What he wanted, he got. What he wanted to do, he did. And steamrolled anything that dared get in his way.

And he was right, Sarah realized with sudden clarity. He didn’t live according to arbitrary rules. He lived according to his heart. He was the angel.

In the centuries she’d spent on Earth, she’d watched over fourteen humans.

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