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I lay back beside him. “There’s nothing to tell.”
“Then what can I do for you to go back to sleep?”
“Sing me a lullaby,” I teased.
“Sweetheart, I do have a good voice, but you’re not about to hear it.”
We stared at the stars for a moment, in comfortable silence, the only sound around us were the crickets and insects in the grass and the woods.
What was happening here? A couple of days ago, I wouldn’t have thought I could relax beside Levi, much less feel this nagging pull to tell him the truth about my situation.
Why shouldn’t I tell him? What would he do? He wouldn’t call the angels and deliver me on a silver platter, not while the bond held and he couldn’t hurt me.
If I told him, maybe, just maybe, the sliver of good in his heart would sympathize with me, with my cause, and he would be more willing to help me, bond or not.
I turned my head and looked at him.
Damn, he was fine; it was almost painful. Why would a demon look this good? I knew why. Like vampires, some of them used beauty to draw their victims in.
And I was falling for it right now.
“You’re staring, sweetheart.”
“I’m wondering if I should tell you about my nightmare,” I said, only half of it. I would never admit he was handsome.
Levi twisted, turning sideways to me, placed his elbow on the grass and his fist on his temple. “Tell me, sweetheart. Anything to empty that pretty head and let me sleep.”
Pretty?
It was probably like when he called me sweetheart. Just another piece of his game. It meant nothing.
I looked up at the stars again, not sure I could face him while I told him my story.
“Soon after I graduated from Guardian Academy, I volunteered for a mission on Earth with some of the best archangels and Seraphim in Elysium. One of my mentors, an archangel, said it was a big mission and I wasn’t ready, but another archangel thought I was. He said it was time for me to join the ranks of famous guardians.” The moment had made me feel proud. “So, we got a team of twelve. Two archangels, four Seraphim, and six Cherubin—me included.”
Among the other five Cherubin were my best friend Rachel and my crush Jeremiah. They had graduated with me and had been invited on this mission. That had been the main reason I had requested to go. How could they get all the glory while I waited my turn?
“What was your mission?”
“To come to Earth to find a rogue angel who was feeding valuable information to a higher demon. We searched for two days until we finally found him … or so we thought. It was a trap. The higher demon, Molraz, was there waiting for us with dozens of his demons.”
“You mentioned the demon before.”
I nodded. “Yeah. I think he orchestrated everything with Rhodes.”
“The archangel?”
“Yes. He turned on us and killed Soren.” My throat closed. I didn’t think I had ever talked about this mission to anyone, not even to Farrah and Wyatt, a fae and a wolf shifter, who became my first real friends here on Earth. “Two other Seraphim joined Rhodes and attacked us. We weren’t prepared for that betrayal. It was a bloodbath.”
I swallowed hard.
I still remembered how Rachel collapsed on me, half dead. The same agony, the same despair from that day clawed its way up my chest as the screams, the scent of blood filled my senses.
“Hey.” Levi touched my shoulder, his fingers featherlight. “Look at me.” I blinked and turned my head to him, looking into his eyes. “It’s over. They can’t get you now. Okay?”
I nodded, but a sob caught in my throat. “They are after me right now.”
He frowned. “The demons?”
