Dark Angel Academy (The Complete Series) - G. Bailey Page 0,48
see two waterfalls of fire. One is white, burning white fire pouring down through the rock, and the other is black fire, spitting harshly as it sinks down into the ground. I can’t stop staring at the black fire until Riley grabs my chin and turns my face to his.
“We are graduating early, baby,” he says, and I snap my head from his grip. I smack my hands against his chest until he lets go and nods to his friends. They rush over and grab an arm each, holding on tightly so I can’t move. They laugh between themselves, and I realise somehow Riley has become their little gang leader.
How did that even happen? He isn’t even an angel yet!
“Let me and Henry go. Why are you doing this? Whatever this is!” I shout at Riley. “I used to love you like a brother, and now you are ruining that!”
Riley looks back at me once, a cool and determined expression on his face. “Just watch.”
I stay frozen as Riley walks headfirst into the white fire, and time seems to stand still. Every breath of mine is laboured as nothing happens, and then Riley appears. He walks out of the fire, letting white embers drop off his new white wings with every step he takes. Only the white fire and the light angel don’t call to me, my gaze drifts to the black fire, wishing I could run headfirst into it.
Riley is laughing like a mad man until he suddenly stops, and his words are even crazier. “I am a light angel, and you are my mate, Kaitlyn Lightson.”
“Mate?” I question in a daze, still staring at the black fire.
Riley with his kind eyes and evil heart walks right up to me, and the hands holding me let go. Good little slaves he has there.
“Angels have soul mates, and the only way we can be together is if you become a light angel.”
“You’re not my soulmate, and I never want to be a light angel. I’m sorry, but I know what my choice is,” I tell him, feeling stronger than I am right in this moment.
“Who said you get a choice?” he asks and laughs like the cruel boy he truly is. Becoming an angel changed my best friend into a monster, and I ignored it because I couldn’t face it yet.
And I’m a fool.
“Fine, I will do what you want if you let Henry go,” I say, still eyeing Henry who looks worse by the minute. “He doesn’t deserve to die because of me. Just let him go.”
“We aren’t negotiating, and I’m never going to let Henry go. He dies tonight, just after he sees you turned into a light angel.”
Chapter 27
“No!” I scream at Riley, the utter lunatic. “Even if I was a light angel, I will never love you. I will never be your mate.”
“You will love me in time, when you forget about him and that gardener,” he sneers. “We can go back to our town and be together like we were. I always knew we would end up together; I made sure no guy in the school would date you. Other than Jordon, but he was a tool.” He shakes his head. “That doesn’t matter now, because we live in a world where we can be mated forever. We will be together forever because the light above wants that for us. Why else would we have died together at the same time? It was a sign.”
“I don’t love you like that, and I never will. If you kill Henry and Thallon, I still won’t love you,” I softly tell him. “This isn’t the way to get what you want, and we both know it.”
“But you do love me more than them. I’m the only one who knows all your secrets, understands your past, understands you!”
“That is because you were my best friend!” I scream back, tears falling into my lips. Their salty burn is all I can focus on for a second.
“It’s because I’m meant to be your mate, and you will see that soon enough.”
“Let her go!” Henry roars, and I run to him, falling on my knees as close as I can get to him.
Riley’s hand falls on my shoulder, and I roughly push him off me. “You have a minute to say goodbye.”
Searching Henry’s angry eyes, I haven’t a clue what to say. “I don’t know how to get us out of this.”
“Maybe this is the end for us,” he almost jokes, and