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Kase becomes impatient and says, “Well? Are you going to tell us what the fuck you see, or are we supposed to be able to tell what’s going on in that uterus of hers?”
The woman clears her throat and reaches out, hitting a button on the machine to zoom. I squint my eyes as if it’ll help with my blurry vision, but all I can see is nothing really. Tapping her finger on another button, the doctor creates a staticky noise before the sound of my heartbeat pounds from the speaker. And then I hear the most beautiful thing. Another heartbeat. And then something else. One more.
“I almost didn’t see the second one,” the doctor says, her voice remaining even. “It’s strange. See this dark shadow here? I’m not sure what it is, but it was blocking the view of baby B. Baby B also looks to be a bit bigger. It’s hard to determine how far along you are.”
“What are you saying, doctor?” Dante asks. “I already told you when her last menstruation cycle was. She should be, I don’t know, five weeks.”
“I am not going to say anything until I run some test. But right now, it looks as if baby B is about three weeks ahead of baby A. The best we can do is wait and see. I’ve never dealt with...something like this.” It’s obvious that the doctor knows what’s going on. I’m surprised she even helps. I wonder what she gets in return. But I don’t ask. Instead, I just stare at the screen, letting her words swirl around my head. Baby A and baby B. I’m having twins.
“One of those fetuses is not mortal. The other one also doesn’t have Raven’s light. It’s not Elias. It is born from Heaven though, and it must be his. As for the other, those shadows are chains of Hell.” Zade steps away from the wall and expands his wings. “I must leave. I need to seek answers.”
Kase growls and grabs Zade. “Fuck no. You’re staying here. No one can know until we know what we’re dealing with.”
“I know what we are dealing with,” Zade snaps. “Raven is carrying the spawn of a devil. And also one blessed with angelic light. New light.”
What? That can’t be right. It can’t even be possible.
But then I look at the screen again.
Oh, fuck.
Someone help me.
If Elias isn’t here, then where is he?
How can my heart handle this?
My soul feels as if it shatters.
Chapter 10
ELIAS
Lost
I NEED TO get into that hotel, but the security measures are too tight. I can’t even get a block within the place. It hurts too much. I can feel the darkness of Hell surrounding Raven’s location, keeping her away.
“Come on, Elias. It’s just a little pain. Remember, it’s in your head. This mortal can handle it. He can walk through wards without a problem. It’s in your head. Think about the ward filled with Hell. Once you got past that first shield, the pain went away.” The strange gruffness of my voice doesn’t grow on me. Neither does this mortal’s body. But he was the only one who agreed to allow me to possess him. I didn’t know what else to do. I still don’t know what else to do. If the angelic army discovers that I am here, they will drag me away to Heaven.
I don’t give a flying fuck if I now have wings again. I don’t want to go back. I don’t want to leave Raven. So here I am, an angel, possessing a mortal man with his permission. At least I can’t hear the fucker. Actually, he’s been dead for a while. He was too gravely injured from the fight, and I just happened to die at the same time he was going to let go of it all. He’s damn lucky that I remembered how to send his soul off to Heaven, because otherwise, he’d be in Hell for his actions.
I was in a good mood despite getting shot and dying. Because I knew Raven would be okay. I expected to be in Hell and have all the devils pissed off at me. What I didn’t expect was to have my self-sacrifice send me to Heaven only to drop me right back down as a savior. I was too good for another cycle. And I was too far gone with my mortal life that I don’t think it would’ve mattered anyway.
Oh well. There’s nothing I can do now except stay out of view until I can figure out what to do next. Raven means everything to me. She is my sole purpose in eternity. I felt it before when she was Grace, and I still feel it more than ever now. But I don’t think I can fall from grace again. I tried. I cussed out the Higher Power. I tried to act like a devil. But nothing works. And I haven’t been able to get close to Raven to talk to her.
Well, that is, until she strolled into the Demon’s Den with Andre and Lucian. I would’ve been fine had the demons not kicked me out. I would’ve waited for Raven to leave, but then fucking Cass-hole showed up.
At least I know where the devils are keeping her now, considering they’ve abandoned the mansion.
“Go. Go. Go. You can do this. You felt worse pain.” I chant the words like a mantra and push harder against the shield.
The world around me quakes, and pain sizzles across my skin. I holler and keep pushing forward. And then the strangest thing happens. The shield suddenly snaps and blinding light blasts through the air.
I feel as if the force of the heavenly light will knock me straight out of this mortal man’s body, but I manage to brace myself until the shaking world subsides and I get my shit together.
I tip my head back and stare at the sky above, expecting the guardians to come circling around like a bunch of annoying seagulls.
The sky remains clear, and I jog forward, the Hell barrier no longer keeping me away from the hotel. I rush toward the trees to take cover and straight along the shaded sidewalk. My heart pounds, and my angelic being hums the closer and closer I get to being within reach of my soulmate.
