Angel's Power
By Erin M. Leaf
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Ariel doesn’t understand why her wings are changing colors. She doesn’t know why energy flickers through her and she doesn’t have time to worry about it. Demons are loose and she must help her brother lead their People.
When Suriel, the angel sorcerer, arrives and offers his help, Ariel’s immediate attraction to him confuses her. She wasn’t looking for a mate and is afraid to commit to anyone while her wings are damaged. And the demons are out there, waiting for the angels to show weakness...
Suriel doesn’t want a mate. His power is strong, but very unstable and he is terrified that he will hurt someone if he lets anyone get too close. The only reason he came to Castle Archangel is to help defeat the demons. However, Ariel, the Alpha’s sister, draws him like no other woman ever has. And when she is injured in a battle, he will do whatever it takes to take care of her.
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Angel's Power - Erin M. Leaf
Published by Evernight Publishing at Smashwords
www.evernightpublishing.com
Copyright© 2013 Erin M. Leaf
ISBN: 978-1-77130-678-2
Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs
Editor: JS Cook
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WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
DEDICATION
To my mother, who loves angels.
ANGEL’S POWER
Angel Shifters, 2
Erin M. Leaf
Copyright © 2013
Chapter One
Ariel stared at her bare arms, then roughly dragged her shirt sleeves down to cover her legacy marks, the symbol of the People. Every angel shifter was born with them. Hers used to be ordinary brown and smoothly drawn. They were supposed to look like tattoos of abstract lines and feathers drawn on her skin, stretching up her arms and over her shoulders, but now they were all wrong. Broken, she thought to herself, a pang of fear lodged in her sternum. She swallowed it down. She didn’t have time for this, no matter how much the mottled blue discoloring the brown remnants bothered her. In some places a hint of silver edged the marks. Worst of all, when she changed, releasing her angel form, her wings were mottled, too. She didn’t know what the hell was wrong, but something was. Her wings were changing and she had no idea why. The tips of her feathers flashed silver when she held them up to the light.
She shoved the heavy drapes away from the windows and stared down over the stone circle. The full moon lit the glittering snow, making it almost as bright as day in the clearing behind Castle Archangel. In another ten minutes, she had to go down there and support her brother, Gabriel. He was their Alpha. The leader of their people. And their species was in the midst of a crisis, even more than they’d been a few decades ago when they’d been outed to the humans. They’d all thought that would be the end of everything. It hadn’t been, even though everyone found out the truth: that the angels of myth were shape-shifters, another sentient species that co-evolved along with humans on Earth. And sure, it was difficult as the world grappled with the revelation, but it was nothing compared to what was happening now. Demons walked among them once more.
Ariel rubbed her face, then forced herself to stand up straight and confident. She was her brother’s first advisor. One of the People’s most important councilors. She had no right to mope around just because her wings were changing colors. Her brother’s had changed from brown to ebon when he’d become Alpha. His mate’s wings had changed from brown to snow white when Raphael became Omega, their People’s healer. Maybe whatever was happening to her wings was meant to be, too. Perhaps she was drifting into some destiny she couldn’t predict and it was all part of God’s plan.
Yeah, right, and pigs will fly across the castle grounds tomorrow, she thought skeptically as she strode through the large chamber. More likely she had some sort of illness and she’d drop dead any day now with no warning. If Gabriel could hear you thinking that, he’d kick your ass, she told herself. She stopped in front of the door leading onto the second floor landing of the huge stone building, trying to press her worry down into nothing. She failed. Instead, she took a deep breath and curled her fingers around the brass handle. It warmed in her hand, the metal suddenly glowing with heat. She jerked her arm away and stared at it. The metal looked pitted. Deformed. Shit. She shook her head. She’d have to deal with this later. She was out of time for self-pity.
Time to be a grown-up and fake it,
she murmured as she shoved the door open with her foot.
****
Are you sure it’s wise to go to Castle Archangel?
Suriel’s mother asked him, not for the first time.
He shrugged, wishing he had a good answer for her. I don’t think any time will ever be the perfect moment to go, but the longer I delay, the more likely something terrible will happen to the People. They need my protection.
He shoved a pair of jeans into his pack.
There are angels here, too. The People don’t only live at the castle,
his mother replied.
Suriel grimaced. I know, but the danger I sense isn’t here. It lies to the south. I can’t let the first true Alpha in years wander around unprotected when my power may tip the balance between life and death.
His mother sighed and glanced around the cave where he’d been staying for the past year. Are you bringing your books?
He paused, hand on the zipper of the thick canvas. No. I don’t really have any way to carry them.
I can ship them to you,
she said, running a hand along the top of his battered bookshelf.
He finished zipping his pack and straightened up. What could he say to her? That he wasn’t sure of his welcome at the castle? I’ll let you know when I get there,
he replied. He started unbuttoning his shirt. It was cold out, but once he shifted into angel-form, he wouldn’t notice the cold. He took it off and folded it, shoving it into the outside pocket of his pack. He shivered, though he wasn’t sure if it was because of the temperature or fear of the unknown. Going to Castle Archangel was a risk. A huge one. He hoped he’d be welcome. His brother Raphael was there, after all. And he had enough control over his power now so that he wasn’t damaging furniture anymore just by walking past.
I’m worried about you,
his mother said. She walked up to him and put her hand on his chest. Her fingers were cold. Your power isn’t stable.
He shrugged. He knew that. "What can