'Tween Heaven and Hell by Sam Cheever

Author:Sam Cheever [Cheever, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc
Published: 2010-12-27T19:07:35.065000+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Where Cranky Angels Go

Alas the maiden finds herself in perplexity again,

For death had pounded on her door, but had never been let in.

I awoke in my own bed, with a blanket tucked up under my chin. As I opened my eyes I looked around in confusion for a while, wondering why I was still alive. As soon as I moved I realized that I was wrong, I must be dead because I didn’t feel any pain.

Moving carefully because I couldn’t believe my entire body wouldn’t be broken, I flipped the covers aside and climbed out of bed. The first thing I noticed was that I was completely naked. The second thing I noticed was that I was…completely frunkin’ naked!

This was not good.

I moved into the personal hygiene room and ordered the shower jets on full at one hundred ten degrees. I climbed under the steaming water and groaned with pleasure as it pounded my skin to a cherry red color. When I emerged, I grabbed the towel I’d flung to the floor the day before and pushed my face into it. A faint whisper of air warned me about half a second before he appeared in front of me, a wicked grin on his gorgeous, golden face.

“Lovely, Astra. How perky you look this morning.”

I pulled the towel around my body with a scowl, trying not to appear as embarrassed as I felt. “Is there something in the devil manual that says you can only haunt your victims when they’re naked and wet?”

Dialle’s smile widened and his velvet eyes twinkled with devilish delight. “Ahh, no my lovely Astra, that rule is one I came up with on my own. It gives me a certain…edge, if you know what I mean.”

“Oh yeah. I know exactly what you mean. Get the Hades out of here and wait for me in the living area. While you’re there, you can make me some coffee. I had a rough night last night.”

He threw back his head and laughed good-naturedly. “I see you and I are going to have to have a discussion about how you should show me respect and cower before me.”

I turned my back on him, too tired and stressed-out to care if he ate me. “Yeah, yeah, I’m terrified of you. Now go away.”

I continued to ignore him until I heard the whisper of air. Then I let the tension leave my body and closed my eyes on a sigh of relief. “I really need to start hanging out with a better crowd,” I muttered under my breath.

I left the personal hygiene room and returned to my sleeping chamber, hoping to get dressed. Silly me, I was totally not expecting to be blasted off my feet as I entered the room. The force that hit my chest drove me against the wall with an intensity that ripped the air right out of my lungs. My shoulder came into painful contact with my favorite holographic painting of a fake country scene and it fell off the wall, crashing into pieces on the floor.

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