Angel Bond (Angel Fire Series #1)

Chapter 28 - Luke

Luke's P.O.V

Damn demons.

I despise them, and not because I’m an angel and therefore I have to, no, they just stink and make my life harder. When I saw that demon crouched over Emma and about to kill her, I saw red.

Emma.

She’s my light in the darkness that encompasses my black heart. She makes me feel alive, and… normal. I love her so much already.

I was originally at her school investigating an unusual gathering of demons, but I saw her green eyes and it was like I hit some invisible wall and the darkness that usually blurs my vision disappeared. There she sat, at the very back of the class, with a demon throwing a dead bird at her. I had to control myself and not rip the disgusting thing to pieces in front of everybody. Luckily, Lazriel had been there and dealt with it, but the tears in her soft eyes almost brought me to my knees. She was pure innocence, and definitely too good for me.

 Hence my decision to court her, and yes, I’m old fashioned. She deserves it at least because I wasn’t going to live the rest of my pathetic life without her.

And it went great, until that piece of shit Raziel decided to flutter by and spy on us during our date. I didn’t want him knowing who Emma was, she was too important to me and I had to keep her safe.

Leaving her on that beach, all alone, I should have known she would have followed me. At least I found out Raziel was a traitor, I was listening to the conversation and the idiot should have sensed an Archangel was near him. It was when he mentioned that his ‘boss’ wanted Emma, that’s when I got angry. I wanted to kill him, I really did, but I didn’t want Emma to think of me as a killer when she found out who I was. To this day I still don’t know who Raziel was referring to when he said ‘boss’, but I won’t stop until I find out.

Then Emma’s friend developed an obsession with me. That was a pain. Luckily I never liked her, it developed into hatred when she joined ranks with the demons and bullied Emma. My sweet, innocent Emma. I should have known who she was when I discovered birds followed her, but I was blind in my infatuation with her. She has Marco’s approval, and that bird is a grumpy bugger, that should have been indication enough.

The Great Michael has a daughter. Who’d have thought?

The guy was like a father to me; he watched out for me and helped me with my “permanent” taint. He actually liked to have conversations with me and agreed that my brothers, Raphael and Micah, were crazy, evil, mean, sadistic… I could go on. Yet they fought for the good side? It makes no sense.

Then I heard that Raphael tried to take Emma… mad doesn’t even come close. My heart literally stopped beating when I saw her falling to her demise. Luckily she fell to her death instead… death being me.

 I know… it’s bad.

I also know I have a killer temper, and I never should have snapped at Emma the way I did. My power had spiralled out of control when I saw she was missing, panic and frustration had consumed all of me.

And it had to have been Raziel who found her. Touched her skin and held her close. I lost it. I realise now that I might have gone overboard with the whole beating, but I’ll never tell him that.

When I found both of them missing the second time... yeah I can’t even describe the feelings that swamped me.

I needed her, how could I live without the very thing I live for? I searched everywhere, and she was in Templum the whole time! I knew what I needed to do to get them to bring her back down; I knew Sam had been keeping an eye on me. I respect Sam for the way he has looked after Emma; he is an important figure in her life. I knew if I hurt Sam, I hurt Emma. So I went to her human class mates and I guess you could say family. Her mother is so wrapped in her own cocoon of misery; I doubt she has noticed both Sam and Emma have been missing.