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“You’re going to do what I tell you as long as you’re under my protection.”
“I didn’t ask to be put under your protection.”
I clenched my jaw in frustration. “Why are you so set on writing yourself off? You have no idea what you are and what will happen—”
“Then tell me what I am!” Liv shouted. “Maybe that will change things. I think I have a right to know.”
I opened my mouth to refuse, but Rory chimed in from behind me.
“She has a right to know, Colter.”
I could strangle Rory. Of course, she was right. I hated that about her, but she was usually right, and she looked objectively at the bigger picture without getting emotionally involved. It was more than I could say about myself right now—when it came to Liv, nothing was how I knew it to be. I was so involved, I was up to my eyeballs in this shit.
“Fine,” I barked.
Liv looked surprised. Rory smirked.
Damn it.
“You have angel blood,” I said.
Liv frowned. “What does that mean?”
“It means you’re a being of light,” Rory said. “You’re an angel, or at least, in part. Like the rest of us who aren’t pure and born of angel or demon magic. We all have some human blood in us, but the rest—”
“I’m a monster?” Liv asked, horrified.
It tugged at me. Did she think we were all monsters?
“You’re not a monster,” Rory said. “On the contrary, angels exist as a reward for the humans who do exceptional things, who act selflessly in their human lives, who do the right thing regardless of what it will cost them.”
Liv shook her head. “A past life?”
“Being an angel and living in the Overworld is like the afterlife for those who do good, the same way vampires are the punishment for humans who make choices that hurt others in their past life.”
Liv bit her lip thoughtfully. “So, I had a life before this?”
“I don’t know,” I said.
True angels were the product of an exceptionally good life, but Liv was only a half-angel, which meant that she had to have been born of a human. It wasn’t uncommon for humans to mix with angels or demons or vampires or shifters—mixing blood and DNA was the new fashion. Lust ruled a hell of a lot of this world.
Still, she had human blood in her. That meant she was still technically in her first life. I didn’t know how to explain any of that to her. We were talking so much more than I usually did to any woman except Rory.
“Okay, so I’m an angel with angel blood… why does that matter? Why are they after me?”
“Angels don’t live on Earth anymore,” Rory said, and I was glad she took over.
She walked to the bed and sat on the edge, scooting closer to Liv. It was an intimate circle, and I felt like I imposed. I took a step back and leaned against the wall, listening to what Rory would say.
“Why not?”
“A long time ago, vampires realized that drinking angel blood gave them more power, made them stronger, so they started to hunt the angels for their blood.”
Liv’s eyes widened in shock.
“It’s also how we exist,” Rory added.
“What do you mean?”
