Total pages in book: 133
Estimated words: 125077 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 625(@200wpm)___ 500(@250wpm)___ 417(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 125077 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 625(@200wpm)___ 500(@250wpm)___ 417(@300wpm)
It was nice and normal. Except now it was all ruined.
Sarah lay on the couch, her skin pale. Felix held her hand, smoothing back her hair.
“I love you.” Tears streaked down his face. “I love you so much.”
“You have to get Mia out of here,” Sarah whispered.
Mia’s head shook. “No. I’m not leaving Momma.”
“We’re safe here,” Felix insisted. “No one can get in. Zoey will come for us. I know we’re not sure where she is, but I have faith that she’s alive and she’ll come to help us. We just have to stay alive. I can get to the clinic.”
Felix’s voice was as hoarse as his wife’s. I knew what he would want from the clinic. What we would need. Vampire blood. Daniel’s blood was kept in the clinic for emergencies.
Sarah’s normally perfect hair was matted with blood on one side, the muddy color contrasting with the seafoam green of the rest of her long bob. She grimaced as she forced herself to sit up. “No. You can’t leave this apartment. He’s already outside the door. I can feel him trying to find a way in.”
Sure enough, I heard whisperings behind the door.
“We can’t stay inside here forever,” Felix whispered as though he didn’t want Mia to hear.
She did, of course. “Lee’s mom and dads won’t leave us here. They won’t.”
Sarah reached out a hand to her daughter, the strain of movement obvious. “Baby, they’re not here or none of this would be happening. I don’t know where Myrddin managed to send them, and I pray to the goddess they’re still alive, but they can’t save us this time. Kelsey is gone, too, and I suspect their children have been taken somewhere safe. I saw Gray coming out of the penthouse, and he’d left Trent up there. I think he did what he could to save the kids.”
“Uncle Neil…” Mia insisted.
“If he’s done what we planned, he’s already working to get as many of us as he can out through the tunnels we built,” Sarah said with a cough that rattled her chest.
“We have tunnels?” I hadn’t known we had tunnels.
“Uncle Neil and Aunt Sarah built them years ago,” Evan explained. “They didn’t trust the hold Myrddin had over my dads. They built the tunnels as an emergency option if they ever got caught and needed a way out. Like this day. Not everyone has an Eddie. She looks so bad. How do I tell my mom?”
A light shone and suddenly Oliver and Felicity Day were in the room.
I breathed a sigh of relief. “I don’t think you have to.”
Felicity quickly moved around the couch. She was everything I viewed an angel should be. Delicate. Beautiful.
But now I could see that our gnome angel was right. Angels would be as different as the charges they protected, and it should be that way.
I glanced down at the gnome. “You aren’t here?”
He shook his head. “I’d only just joined them at this point. I stayed behind to ensure they didn’t get caught. We were told by the archangels not to be involved, but they couldn’t leave their brother’s family behind. So we made a plan.”
Felicity sank to her knees before Sarah while Oliver moved in to put a hand on Felix’s shoulder.
“You came,” Felix said, his voice unsteady.
“You are and will always be my brother,” Oliver replied solemnly. “I will do anything I can to help you, but you have to know we’ve been told not to interfere.”
Felix’s shoulders dropped. “Then there’s nothing you can do.”
“They can take Mia.” Sarah clutched at Felicity’s arms. “Please save Mia.”
Oliver’s eyes rolled as though he thought all the drama was a bit much. “As if Michael’s edicts can stop me. Felicity, if you please.”
Felicity held a hand up and pure white light pulsed from it and into Sarah’s body. She was whole again in seconds, the color coming back to her face. Felicity even got rid of the blood, and Sarah looked like she’d recently gotten dressed and was ready for work.
Felix dragged his wife into his arms, holding her tight. “Thank you. Thank you, brother. Thank you, sister.”
“She’s not entirely out of the woods.” Felicity reached down to hold Mia’s hand, bringing it up to her heart. “Sweetie, I need you to go and pack a bag of your favorite things. We’re going on an adventure. You have to be quick. Don’t worry about clothes. You’ll find some there, but I want you to bring your favorite toys and books and pictures. Okay?”
Mia nodded and ran off.
“Where are we going? What’s wrong with Sarah?” Felix asked.
Felicity’s lovely face looked grim. “She seems to have been hit with a spell that’s affected her heart.”
“He tried to pull it out of my body,” Sarah admitted. “Myrddin and I fought earlier. I managed to get away, but he knew where I would go. He wants my heart’s blood. I warded the whole building with it. He can get into all of the public spaces and there are some rooms he can easily fight the wards off, but some places like this apartment, he will never get through. Only Neil or Zoey can get in here outside my family.”