Death In Her Eyes - Erin Bedford Page 0,62
his arm close to himself. “It’s fine. Don’t worry about it.”
I grabbed his arm and saw the melted flesh. “No, you’re not. Why would you do that?”
Dex lip ticked up on one side. “Don’t you know?”
I stared up at him in disbelief as his other hand stroked my hair. “But I thought you weren’t going to let the vision come true.” I mimicked his words back to him using my best Dex voice.
He chuckled. “Well, you can’t fight fate, can you?” He cupped my chin and stared deep into my eyes. “And you, Elle Richmond. I think we were meant for each other.”
I swallowed hard, not sure how to respond to his proclamation. No one had ever said anything like that to me before. Sure, guys had been happy to jump in the sack with the weirdo girl but none of them had ever proclaimed any kind of feeling let alone that I was meant for them.
Too stumped by what he’d said, I allowed him to press his lips to mine in an all-consuming kiss. My fingers curled into the front of his shirt careful of his arm as his mouth slanted over mine. His tongue dashed in and out of my mouth tasting every inch of me as if he were trying to memorize every part of it.
A low moan escaped from my throat. I pressed myself closer to him, getting lost in the sensations he brought to me. I let myself be taken over by him, pushing all the hurt and pain I felt into that very kiss.
My leg wrapped around his hip and I tried to climb him as I struggled to get closer to him.
Dex pulled back with a low heated chuckle. “Woah, there. We’re in the middle of the courtyard.” He smiled softly at me and brushed a thumb along my lower lip.
I nipped at it causing him to groan and pull me in for another kiss.
To my dismay, this one didn’t last as long as the other one before he was pulling away once more.
“We can’t. Not here.” He took my hand and led me toward the school. “Let’s go to-”
An explosion shook the ground and the remnants of the courtyard. Dex clasped me tight while we tried to keep on our feet.
“What was that?” I asked after the rumbling stopped.
Before Dex could answer an alarm sounded it over the academy. Worry crossed over Dex’s face and he pushed me toward the door.
“You need to get inside. Go, hide. And don’t come out until I come find you.”
Except I wasn’t about to have anything decided for me anymore. Not now, not ever.
“Not until you tell me what’s going on.”
Dex looked like he was going to argue but then saw my face and sighed. “The angels. They’re here.”
Chapter 22
Screams from back inside the school pulled my attention and I hurried through the doors. The academy shook again causing dust and bits of ceiling to fall down around me.
Dex hadn’t followed me inside. I assumed they had some kind of plan in place for if angels attacked and he was doing his duties.
I had to worry about me.
Rushing through the hallways, I found Ayden and the others coming out of the dining room.
“Elle!” Ayden raced over to me. “What’s going on?”
“Angels.” I told her, my lips pressed tight together and then I looked to the others. “Is there somewhere we’re supposed to go if this happens?”
Joash stepped up with an arm wrapped around Coral. “Yeah, we’re all to go to the library. There’s a secret entrance into some underground tunnels there.”
“Well, then let’s go!” I swung an arm for them to follow me. Why I thought I was the leader now, I didn’t know but something in me said I had to get them to safety before anything else.
The hallways were crowded as we worked our way from the dining hall to the library. Everyone else apparently knew the drill. It made me wonder if they had normal fire drills like this but for angels.
Everyone was so close that it was impossible not to brush up against anyone. My jaw clenched and my nails bit into my hands as I was assaulted with vision after vision. One of them hit me so hard that it knocked me off my feet and into someone nearby.
“What the hell, freak, get off!”
Hands shoved at me as I blinked my vision clear. Dharma, of course I would run into her now. Not having time for her high school drama, I