House Of Legions (The Angel Descendants book 1)

Kalbreal didn’t need to know that she was obsessing over William. She had many unanswered questions, to which Angel-boy seemed to have most of the answers, and so did her brother.

The wicked gleam and sudden broad smile that etched his face had her narrowing her eyes, “What’s the joke?”

“Do you still want to see my wings?”

She tilted her head, a grin playing on her mouth, “Will I die?”

“No, I can show it to you under the water, the lake’s blessed with healing properties, it’ll protect you as long as you stay emerged.”

“Okay.”

“Take out your clothes and get in the water and I’ll show you.”

She coughed out, “Angel-boy has seriously lost his mind.”

“Angel-boy? You couldn’t have chosen a better name, maybe hero or prince.”

She snorted, recalling a similar thing he said to her in his room the day before, “Prince, huh, that’ll be the day. ANGEL-BOY is much better.”

she cursed her brain, cursed her skin, as it tingled

splashed on her face, bringing her back to reality, she

to see

removing her t-shirt first, “And I’m not getting naked, I’m wearing underwear, turn

didn’t respond to her, so she halted in her quest, and turned around to face him, but he wasn’t there. She moved carefully

curled around his cheekbones, his eyes blazing hot, looking more of a crimson red than orange, as he swam closer to the

much, so she slipped the t-shirt back on, she hadn’t thought of why she hid the barely-there mark on her back from anyone, but her instincts seemed to take over when

with her barefoot, expecting, well she didn’t really

lake, she swam further in until he stood opposite her, “You okay?” at her nod, he said, “Count

swallow, but rethought it. After seven anticipated seconds were up, she took in a lungful of air and swam down toward the lakes bed. Half down, she could see the sparks of fire, milky, blurry lava, she

expanded about two meters wide and a little over three in length as it spread out. She blinked, water burning her eyes. She saw his face was

peeled them open just a tiny bit to see his wings one last time, but the water got too hot in the instant and she couldn’t hold her breath any longer, she signalled

the water. Feeling exhilarated as fresh air soaked up into her lungs, her breathing

of the lake. Her hair barely covered her black panty as she ran out of

just caught her breath, when she heard footsteps from behind her, she slipped on her jeans, “I could see it, but

since you’ll probably never get your name back.”

said it so bluntly like it was definite, but parts of Clare refused to believe it, she didn’t say