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and you’ll grow in peace and love.
My eyes filled with tears as we sang, and the words rushed back to me. Magic rose around us, so powerful, and my skin started to glow.
“What’s happening?” I gasped, looking at my hands and my arms. The pendant around my neck became warmer, and I touched my fingers to it.
“Oh,” Andra breathed, staring at me. The room filled with light that poured out of me, and I felt like I would combust at any moment. “The spell.”
“What spell?” I asked. “Yours?”
Andra pursed her lips. “No, your mother’s. She must have done it to protect you before giving you to me. It was why you remained hidden among the humans for so long, with no one able to find you.” Andra pressed her fingers to her lips, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears again.
Tears streamed down my cheeks, and I did nothing to stop them from falling.
The magic that wrapped itself around me was warm and comforting—familiar—as if it was a friend I’d known a long time. When I closed my eyes, I flashed on the face of an angel, with dark eyes and pouted lips, and a smile that made my heart swell.
My mother—I remembered my mother. It wasn’t much. I’d only been a baby, but to see her face, to feel the magic she’d passed on to me, was more than I’d ever had.
For a moment, with the magic wrapped around me, I felt like I’d come home.
24
COLTER
I’d hoped Andra could help us figure out what was going on with Liv, but I hadn’t in my wildest dreams thought we would get this much.
What were the odds that Andra had known Liv’s parents?
I stared at the two of them as they were caught in some memory I wasn’t a part of, singing a song that I hadn’t ever heard aside from Liv humming the tune, and a deep sense of dread settled inside me.
Liv glowed like a beacon of light, her skin ethereal, and the expression on her face more beautiful than anything I had ever seen—she truly was an angel. Maybe only half her blood was angel blood, but looking at her right now, it didn’t make a difference.
At this moment in time, she was the rarest creature on Earth, and she was in a hell of a lot of danger.
Andra and Liv might not have figured it out just yet—they were still bonding over the past—but Liv’s power had been released from the bonds that her mother had placed on her to hide her in the human world.
It was great that Liv figured out who she was and knew where she came from, but neither of them seemed to understand that now that her power had been unleashed, the veil that had hidden her from the monsters who wanted to use her out there had been lifted.
Anyone could find her now; they didn’t need to hear the news from someone like Jerry to know that angel blood was in circulation again.
Angel blood had been a hot commodity once upon a time—it had been used to create shifters, and strengthen vampires’ powers, and I’d heard that there had been creatures who’d managed to use the blood of an angel to heal things that were incurable. I didn’t know how accurate the last had been, but a lot of people believed that as a fact.
For just a moment, I thought about her blood and what it could do for me. Could it heal me?
I shoved the thought away. That was why I was researching cures and creating the machine. I wasn’t going to use Liv, no matter how tempting it was that she could be the answer I’d been looking for all this time.
She wouldn’t be my Hail Mary, no matter how selfish I could be as a person. If she’d been any other woman, I wouldn’t have thought about it twice, but I cared about Liv in a way I hadn’t cared about anyone, and I wasn’t going to mess that up.
I’d watched my stepmother fuck up everything she’d had with my dad because she’d been selfish and vain, and like I’d thought before, life was too short to make all the mistakes myself.
I had to focus on Liv and her safety, first and foremost, rather than on anything that could help me. At this point, she was in more danger than I could ever be, condition or not.
Her power was strong, her blood was powerful, and anyone who wanted to use her would sense it if she was close enough, or if she used enough of her power that it rocked outward far enough.
Shit.
We finished breakfast. The conversation had fallen silent. Liv was caught up in her thoughts after everything she’d learned. Andra seemed to be stuck in her memories, and I was reeling.
When breakfast was finished, I stood.
