Page 91 of The Angel's Kiss
“If you want to, Monique, you can stay with us. I know we’re practically strangers, but—”
“I want to,” she said with a wide smile.
“Are you sure? You’ll be living with a celestial being and a demon.”
“And I know I’ll be cared for and safe,” she said.
“Wise beyond her years,” I stated.
“Growing up fighting for your life will do that to you,” Rai agreed. “Very well, it’s settled. You can have the guest room. We’ll buy you stuff to make you feel more at home. But there’s going to be rules, young lady.”
Monique laughed. “You can’t be much older than I am.”
Rai scoffed. “You don’t know that. I’m immortal.”
Her eyes widened. “You are?”
“Yep. I’ll be this age forever.”
“What age is that?” she asked.
“Twenty-four,” Rai answered.
“And what about you?” she asked me. “I know you’re like ten thousand years old, but at what age did you stop aging?”
“Twenty-four,” I said because that’s how old the human was whose body I possessed, then manipulated to look the way I wanted throughout time.
“So, you’re both twenty-four forever... must be nice,” Monique said.
I nodded.
She looked at me from head to toe and back up. She slouched back on the sofa. “Man, this is so wild. Will I be immortal too?”
“No,” I answered. “You’re a normal human, but you do have demonic essence. You’ve probably never been sick, have you?”
She frowned and stared hard as if she were thinking about my question, then she shook her head. “Not that I can remember, no.”
“You’ll age slower than humans, but you’ll still age,” I said. “You’ll probably be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest human by the time you do succumb to your mortality.”
“Really, Azazel? She’s sixteen, she doesn’t want to hear about that,” Rai fussed.
“No, it’s okay. It’s nice to know that as long as I don’t die in some crazy way, I can live to be nice and rickety,” Monique said.
I chuckled at that.
“What I want to do is make sure you live a good life, Monique,” Rai said.
“So, you’re going to let me live here and take care of me?” she asked.
“Yes. If that’s what you want too.” Rai smiled.
“I feel safe with both of you and you’re both super cool and cute,” Monique said, and blushed at the last part.
I smirked and Rai just huffed.
“Then it’s settled. We’ll come up with the rules later. For now... let’s just chill for the day,” Rai said.
“I’m down with that,” Monique said and turned to me. “Hey, you said humans looked different then, way back when… so how do you look like that if that’s not how humans looked?”
