Page 35 of The Angel's Kiss
I smirked. “Demon, it’s in my nature. What’s your excuse?”
Rai huffed. “Fine. You were right,everyonewas right, is that what you want to hear me say?”
I tilted my head as I checked him out. He looked rough. Clothes shredded and bloodied. If not for his Guardian healing ring, no telling how many bruises and wounds he would have had. The fact of the matter was, he’d been about to die the moment I’d arrived on the scene. I’d only managed to freeze the elements in the nick of time.
“I was wrong, is that also what you wanted to hear?” he snapped.
“It’s a start.” I motioned to the demons. “Do you want me to take care of them? My power to hold them still won’t last too much longer and I won’t be able to freeze them again.”
He nodded.
It was my time to shine, as they say. I needed to prove to this stubborn, beautiful man that he always needed me. I conjured up my sword, then used my demon teleportation to attack every demon, slicing their heads from their necks in a matter of seconds. Their bodies went up in smoke and ash, the particles floating in the air as they drifted to the floor.
“Jesus!” Rai gasped.
I smiled, because that was the reaction I wanted from him. I dissolved my sword, letting the power flow back into my body. Rai was looking at me now, a mixture of bewilderment and intrigue in his expression. I winked and he scoffed, then rolled his eyes.
“We need to get out of here,” he said and I knew why. We could both hear the approaching sound of sirens. He walked over to the teenage girl lying on the floor who appeared to be knocking on death’s door. He scooped her up into his arms.
“You won’t be able to save that child,” I said.
“I have a potion in my bike satchel,” he said.
“She’s been poisoned with demon blood.”
“See if there’s anyone here alive,” he told me.
“Is that your command?”
“Yes,” he snapped.
“Does that mean that you have accepted me as your Champion? I need to hear the words.”
He threw his head back and huffed. “For fuck’s sake. Yes. I didn’t want to, but if I’m going to survive, I know now that I do need you. Happy now, you petty fuck?”
I barked out a laugh, because his personality was much livelier than other Guardians. “Yes,” I said. “As for her parents, they are already dead. My power didn’t affect them.” I could sense all living beings that my power captured and her mother and father were long since dead. At that moment, I felt my freeze ability fade and that meant the girl would be in immediate danger. When frozen, even her heart and blood stopped as she was in a state of stasis. That was over now and there was no way that I could freeze her again, as she was now immune.
“Shit.” He frowned, then sighed. “Come on, then,” Rai said, then he opened one of the windows and jumped out of it, six stories to the parking lot below. I simply teleported beside him and he jerked. “Fuck! So, you can do that anywhere?”
I nodded. “I have quite the arsenal of abilities at my disposal.” I bowed my head slightly at him. “And now at yours. Now that you’ve finally come to your senses and accepted me as your Champion, you’ll see.”
“Whatever. Here, hold her.” He handed the girl over to me and I took her.
I looked at her little body struggling to breathe. Her veins were dark, protruding, and thicker than normal. A clear indicator of demonic poison. She looked to be twelve years old, probably why she wasn’t dead yet from the poison. I wondered if his potion could save her. He reached into his black leather satchel and removed a brown vial, untwisting the cap. He put it to her lips and urged her to drink it. She swallowed, her eyes were half closed, her clothes were torn and had blood on them. You could tell she fought and I bet she was terrified the whole time.
She coughed on the potion but managed to drink the whole thing. And as I had predicted, it had very little effect.
“Shit,” Rai cursed.
I pursed my lips as I thought about it. “They might need her for some spell, her dying by demon blood would link her life to that spell. Or it could just be that they injected her with demon blood to see if her body could accept it. There’s a number of reasons.”
Rai cursed. “I’m going to save her regardless. I just wanted to know if I can’t, can you save her?”
I wasn’t in the business of saving lives... not my natural instinct, although it was one of my abilities. I had over a century to come to grips with the fact that I would be using my powers for good. It was no surprise to me that Rai was asking. “Maybe, but we should get her out of here.”
“My home.”
“Take her.”
