Death In Her Eyes - Erin Bedford Page 0,61

to me.

“What. Did. You. Do?” I practically shouted in his face, no longer playing the dutiful daughter.

Sighing with annoyance, dropping his good father act as well, my dad locked eyes with me. “I removed you from her memory. She won’t come looking for you and neither will the rest of your mother’s family. So, you can stop worry about them and focus on your studies. Here. Where you are safe.”

I stared at him for a long moment, unbelieving what I had just heard. Then a maniacal laugh spilled forth from my lips and I clutched my stomach unable to stop it.

“Eleanor?” my dad frowned and reached for me. “Elle?”

I slapped his hand away from me and swiped at my eyes which had begun to tear up. “You don’t care about me at all, do you?” I swung around to glare at Azazel and him. “All you care about is keeping me on your side of this stupid war.”

“What are you blathering on about?” My dad huffed and crossed his arms in annoyance. “You’re my daughter. Of course, I care about you.”

“Then why? Why?" I screamed at my dad, anger swelling inside of me. "Why did she have to die? Why is any of this happening to me? I'm just an ordinary girl. I never asked for this power.” I backed away from him and toward them door. “If you and the angels want my powers so badly then you can just have it and leave me out of it.”

"It doesn't work that way, Elle. We can't control the future as you know." My dad tried to soothe my rage.

"Don't touch me.” I swung my fist at him. “You're just like the rest of them. Angels. Fallen Angels.” I shook my head. “Nephilim. You're all alike." I felt power build up inside of me as my insides burned. "Mark my words. You'll regret the day you ever created me."

I ran from the room before he could stop me, my eyes burning with unshed tears.

He didn’t care. Not at all. I’d hoped that talking to him would help. That I could somehow understand what he was doing. Why he had lied to me.

In a perfect world, he would have hugged me close, told me it was all for my own good and that he loved me and my mom more than anything in this world.

Except he hadn’t.

There was no use pretending like he would be anything other than what he had always been.

The hallway blurred by as I ran, my feet pounding on the stone floors beneath my feet. Tears streamed down my face as my heart pumped harder. I had to get out of the school. I had to get away from this place. I could feel that burning inside that had come before with Dex.

If my one experience with this feeling told me anything it was that something was going to get blown up in the next few moments. Except this time, I didn’t have Dex to help me control it.

So, I did the only thing I knew to do. I headed for the courtyard. It was large enough that I wouldn’t hurt anyone other than the statues and foliage and let’s be honest no one was going to miss them.

A voice called my name on the way out the door, but I didn’t stop. I had to get out. I had to be able to final…

I reached the middle of the courtyard.

…let go.

A screamed ripped from my throat as I threw my arms out to both sides. Every inch of me burned as the world around me turned to molten flames. The grass and bushes turned to ash. The statues melted in their posts. Even the stone beneath my feet scorched from the power that unleashed from inside of me.

“Elle!”

Dex’s voice broke through my rage and I turned to face him, the flames around me licking the edges of him. He didn’t flinch away.

“What happened?” Dex took a step closer and then winced. It seemed my fire could hurt him.

I shook my head, unable and not wanting to talk about it. “I can’t. I just can’t.” I shifted around so I didn’t have to face him.

He let out a pained sound making me jerk back around. He was trying to get past my fire.

“Stop it. You’re hurting yourself.” I growled at him and then as suddenly as the fire had appeared around me it dispersed. Frowning at how easily, I had lowered it, I rushed to Dex’s side.

He clutched