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Her eyes slammed shut. “No. You are wrong. You are good.”
It was becoming hard to talk because I knew I was going to miss this deity so fucking bad. “Only these last days with you.”
Letting go of my wrists, she slapped my chest, too many times to count. “Fight! You fucking fight!”
God, she was sensational.
I love you, Rosa. “Give me the sun one more time?”
She howled to the shower ceiling. “You are my sun!”
Pride bloomed in my dying chest. “Then … let me be your sun one more time.”
Energy slipping from her, her forehead fell to my chest. “No.”
My finger grazed under her chin. “Come on, one kiss, then?”
She looked up to me, anger bleeding from her broken spirit. “I hate you.”
I only smiled bigger. “Not even close, Little Hellion.” I tapped my lips. “Do as you’re told.”
I will never forget the agony—the grief of impending loss—on her sweet face as she lifted to her toes, pressing her lips to mine. “Onus, I will never forget your worth.”
Her holy water had scalded me. Her borrowed wings had burned me. But her love made me smile while soaring toward a hateful fate.
With more gratitude than I had ever possessed, or ever would again, we made love.
Her body was mine to devour. Her soul was mine to envelop and lovingly kiss, one last time.
Then her sun faded … to black.
SIX
REALM ON EARTH
Rosa
Pain… Until the beginning of my darkest days, I had never experienced much of it, physically. I had felt a mourning for those I watched over, believing I understood human suffering, but I was mistaken. Dreadfully so.
I had also thought the flames of hell were the worst torture I could endure, but I was incorrect yet again.
My father had warned me about so many things, but I set out to change the world anyway. I needed to bring peace amongst those who couldn’t understand the magnificence at their fingertips.
As I would learn, even gods have the capability to learn and be humbled.
Meeting Onus reversed my ignorance to a magnificent range of learnings and yearnings. He was electric, consuming me with rich emotion and an abundance of senses I’d never known.
This man would be my finest hour … and saddest one.
I had made an arrangement with the devil. One I had broken. That dark entity was going to have his way in the end and make me pay like never before.
It was to be expected, and I was willing to suffer, but what I hadn’t seen coming was how every blaze Onus had set in my heart would be equally matched by his demise.
Experiencing—actually feeling—Onus take his final step into his fate was like plummeting from the top of the tallest mountain and hitting every razored edge the whole way down. As Onus fell alongside me, his flesh scrapping and ripping, my horror intensified to blinding levels.
That is why my angel friend fought so hard for me…
Feeling rain drops rising, I knew who held me and who I preferred to be holding me. I reached out for Onus. “Where is he?”
