I knew better than most that teenagers were a myriad of catastrophes, a nuclear bomb of their own making.All those hormones, all those...feelings...all the angst...they truly were ticking time bombs.Not to mention their brains were not entirely developed.
But there was a peaceful, beautiful air about them, too.I’d never experienced youth, not in the way humans did.I was born a demon, and I would always be a demon, and life was just...the way it was.
But Mercy had her whole life ahead of her.
Ifwe found her body.
If she chose a home for her lost soul.She would live out the remainder of her days experiencing all the firsts in life, the good, the bad, and even the ugly.
But she wouldlivethose things, and I couldn’t help but be jealous.
Because the one thing I could never do, waslive.
If this mission went well, and Mercy decided to give her soul to us, to Hell, I would be a Reaper.A taker of lives like Mercy’s.
I would get to leave Hell and rise to the surface, and it would be the closest thing I would ever have to living.
“We need a plan,” Valory said as she shifted her position on the bed, her wings rustling behind her.
“I couldn’t agree more,” I said.
CHAPTER4
Endor
“We can’t justup and whisk her away, she’s too fragile,” Valory said as she shifted her weight, running her fingernails down Mercy’s arm.The movement drew her breasts together, giving me an ample sight of her cleavage from where I sat with Mercy curled against me, and I fought not to look.
Though I didn’t care for the angel’s constant need to second guess me and ask a hundred questions, I couldn’t deny her beauty.
Angels had their own unparalleled beauty, it came with the territory.
I gently shifted my leg, drawing my knee up as I let Mercy go, letting her head softly fall against the pillow behind her as I moved to rise from the bed.
For being this close to Valory, close enough I could smell her heavenly scent, close enough that her tempting,innocentair, was bound to be distracting.I needed to think, and I needed all my faculties about me.
Not to mention my twitching cock needed to settle, and the last thing I wanted was for little miss goody two shoes to get all flustered about my cock with a mind of its own.
Well, at least not right now in this tiny hotel room...
“It’s too far a drive, I doubt we would make it in time by car,” I said, pacing the room.
Valory settled next to Mercy, wrapping her arm around her, but keeping her gaze trained on me.
“A plane?”she asked.
“The absurdity of two beings capable of flight taking a plane...”
“One of us is stillmortal, and it is clear that the celestial jet lag isn’t our only enemy.”
I looked at Mercy lying there, peaceful and quiet like a damn baby.
The vision had obviously taken a lot of out her.There was no telling if she would receive another one, the closer we got, and we couldn’t settle down into a hotel every couple hours to rest, even if we wanted to.
“Perhaps she just needs sustenance to keep her strength up,” I suggested.
“We could easily find a diner or a—”
“And then what, Endor?We still need to travel.We still need to make it to Jasper Springs before...”
