Finding Faith: Kalili's Temptation Book 1 by AC Adams

Author:AC Adams [Adams, AC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

First Flight on Angel Air

Nobody stopped us.

I hadn’t expected anyone would, with both guards dead and the various passers-by more interested in staying uninvolved.

Or maybe looting.

I didn’t know, didn’t care, and didn’t look.

We were perhaps a half-mile outside the walls before I allowed us to stop. Angels and demons might have immortality, but our bodies were as subject to exhaustion as any human’s.

“I don’t see anyone.” I panted, bent over, shoulder hurting.

“I don’t either. Kalili?”

“Huh?”

“He hurt you.”

“Tell me something I don’t know.” I reached around to my shoulder, touched it. A sharp spike of pain lanced from my arm to my head and back. “Fuck.”

“Do you need my help?”

I didn’t know what she could do and said as much.

“I can heal you.”

My mouth dropped open. This was different. Demons could heal ourselves, not others, a fact I’d been forcibly reminded of… Was it just this morning? Yes, this morning.

But an angel could heal…?

“I can heal you,” she repeated. “If you want me to.”

I heard the unasked question: “If you trust me?” I couldn’t resist her concern, genuine and warm. I nodded.

“Please.”

She stood behind me and gently rested her hand on the wound. The pain ebbed instantly, then a heat suffused through my shoulder. Far too soon for my liking, Faith removed her hand. I braced for the pain to return, but it didn’t.

“How did you do that?” I whispered.

“I’m not sure, I just, I knew I could.”

I flexed my shoulder. “Pity. If you knew, you could teach me. Then I could heal you.”

“Might come in handy,” Faith agreed, massaging her wrist.

“Wait. Did this cost you?”

She smiled, a glory to behold, and shook her head. “No. I think I simply direct your taaqat to do the healing instead of you. Guide it to where it’s needed. Maybe. This is the first time I’ve done it.”

I chuckled. “So you tested it on me? I’m touched.”

Faith heard the lightness in my voice and smiled again.

I lifted my pack with my healed arm, took her hand with the other, and allowed our minds to mingle on the edge of our awarenesses. “Come on. I want to put another mile between us and the city before we fly.”

It didn’t take long to get out of sight of the walls and through most of the fields which surrounded the city. Better, we had plenty of daylight left. I didn’t know how fast Faith could fly. I knew how fast I could, and it would take me the rest of the afternoon to get to Ravenna if nothing went wrong. And flying at night was risky, because my vision wasn’t any better than a human’s. I didn’t want to end up in the sea, or in some mountains.

“Here’s good,” I said, and dropped the pack.

“Can we rest?” She looked tired, and I nodded. It had been a busy day, and while our taaqats would replenish, they’d do so faster if we weren’t being physical.

Fat chance of that.

“Thirsty?”

“Maker, yes!”

I smiled at her mild curse and dug for the water bag.

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