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Chapter 1

I woke up naked and in a strange bed

For several ently fe to figure out how, exactly, I’d gotten here

And where the hell “here” was

My brain was decidedly fuzzy on any sort of detail, however, and that could only ht and blot out emotion had actually succeeded And that surprised the hell out of me

Thanks to our fast o on a bender I ht be only half were, but I usually hold et anywhere near drunk I certainly hadn’t expected to be able to forget – if for only a few hours – the anger and the pain

Pain that came from both the worst kind of betrayal, and my own subsequent actions

My eyes stung, but this time no tears fell Maybe because I had very little in the way of tears left Or maybe it was simply the fact that, somewhere in the alcohol-induced haze of the past few days, I’d finally come to accept what had happened to me

Although it wasn’t like I had any other choice

If I had, then I would have died Should have died But Azriel, the reaper who’d been uard, andso, had taken away the very essence of what I was

Because in forcing me to live, he’d not only ensured that my soul could never be reborn, but he’d made me what he was

A dark angel

The next time I died, I would not move on and be reborn into another life here on Earth I would join hiray fields – the unseen lands that divided this world froates to heaven and hell

And that ain Not in any future lifetiht have been mine, because he’d stolen all that away from me

What e that he’d saved me not because he loved ates