Unholy Torment by Kristie Cook

Author:Kristie Cook [Cook, Kristie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ang'dora Productions, LLC
Published: 2020-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I couldn’t breathe. I definitely couldn’t say anything. I could only stare with my mouth hanging wide open.

Three figures stood between me and the table of candles, blocking out the Jesus on the wall. Three women, all dark-haired with a tint of red, all dark-eyed with similarly shaped faces. All wearing white dresses that looked quite a bit like my wedding dress, only made of some Otherworldly material that looked like soft leather, and no fancy gems decorated the collar, giving them an overall fiercer appearance. And all with white, feathery wings tucked closely behind them. Huge wings, with their apexes reaching several inches above the women’s heads and their tips draping on the floor by their feet.

I plastered myself against the back of the pew as I drank in the sight.

“Mom? Rina?” I eyed the other one. I’d known her voice from hearing it in my head several times before. My heart shook in my chest. “Cassandra?”

They all smiled at me.

“You’re really here?” I asked in disbelief. Their grins only grew. I peeled myself away from the back of the pew and leaned forward. I reached out to touch Mom’s hand. “Oh my god!”

“Alexis,” she warned, and my eyes darted to the wall behind her, although I couldn’t see Jesus anymore.

“Sorry,” I murmured. “I just . . . I can’t . . . MOM!”

I sprang from the pew, somehow hurdled over the front one, and threw myself at her. She caught me in her arms. Her familiar scent enveloped me, confirming further she really stood here, although it was mixed with an unusual freshness, like how the Sacred Archives smelled. Then I turned to Rina and hugged her, too. I stood awkwardly in front of Cassandra, but she pulled me into her arms for an embrace.

“You’re Angels?” I demanded, reaching out to touch the top of Mom’s wing. It moved when I did, and I jerked my hand back. Mom laughed. I wanted to cry. I thought I’d never hear her laugh or feel her hugs again.

“We’ve been promoted, in a way,” she said.

“Heaven needs all the help available in these times,” Cassandra added.

I laugh-snorted. “Yeah, well, so do I.”

“And you have it, darling,” Rina said.

I spun on her. “You’re staying?”

My heart leapt with hope.

“Sorry, honey, but we cannot stay,” Mom said, and I crashed back down to reality. “This is your realm. We are needed in the Otherworld.”

I slumped onto the front pew.

“We have not abandoned you, though,” Cassandra said. “We are still fighting for you where we are. We are still providing you guidance when you need it. The Angels and God himself are behind you, Alexis.”

You could have fooled me.

“Darling, you have not needed us,” Rina said. Could she still read minds? Or could they all? Well, they’d spoken in my head before, so I supposed that was my answer. I couldn’t think without them hearing me, but when I pleaded for their help, they ignored me.

“We are not ignoring you,” Cassandra said. “But there are some trials you must face.

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