I would never be able to return to Heaven.To my dog, my friends, my life...
My gaze met Endor’s and I saw the pain there.
He knew this was what it would come down to.Knew that I would try to transfer my grace to the hellbound soul and it would cost me my own.
He didn’t want me to transfer my grace because it would kill me.
So, he took the choice away.
He made it so I could not save Miles without also hurting myself.
Damn him!
“The contract is broken,” he said as he shoved Mercy toward her bed.
“You are no longer hellbound,” he said to Miles, who looked as if he was on the brink of death.
“But we must find your body.Now, if you wish to live.”
Mercy stilled as Endor looked at her.
“You must assimilate,” he ordered, his jaw stern, his eyes red from tears.
“Endor...”
His words hit me like a brick.
He broke the contract.He saved Miles’s soul.
By giving up his own.
It was selfish, but it was also selfless, and I knew he had broken a celestial’s greatest law.
He had tampered with death, and it would come for him now.
Mercy ran to him, wrapping her arms around him.
“Thank you,” she cried.
The room brightened from their touch.Light engulfed them both, golden and warm.
“No, Mercedes.Thank you,” he said as he kissed her forehead.His gaze flashed up at me.“For reminding me we all have a choice.”
I watched as he pushed her once more.She did not expect it, and therefore, it was easy for her to fall.
Her bright light sparkled as she assimilated, and he ran to Miles.
I froze, unable to move.
“Stay with her,” he said, his voice commanding.
I did not want to leave him, but I could not leave her, and?—
Endor pulled me close and kissed me, hard.
I could feel the pain, the fear, and the hope etched in his kiss and it was as heartbreaking as it was beautiful.
“Guide our girl where she needs to go.”The love in his gaze was irrefutable.“Guide her home.”
