“No, I don’t,” he said. “Super Glue was not invented as a medical supply.”
“My head is fine,” she said, kissing him softly on the lips. “It’s not the first time I’ve repaired an injury like this.”
She started kissing him on the neck and Gabriel groaned, “You know you’re the only woman I’ve every made love to, don’t you? I’ve only done that once, and you want to tempt me with your lips?”
“The first woman, yes,” she said, “but there has to be an angel up in Heaven that’s missing you.”
Gabriel laughed, “There are no female angels, Dani.”
“Good,” she said and starting kissing her way across his collar bone. “I don’t like to share.”
He pushed her away gently before things could go too far for him to turn back, “Hold that thought, I have to go talk to someone.”
“Now?” she asked in frustration.
He kissed the corner of her mouth, “Yes, now; just give me thirty minutes.”
“Okay, but hurry,” she said.
Chapter Fifteen
1.
Dani made her way quickly down the path to the main house. She knocked on the door, and a voice inside beckoned her in. Jenny was sitting on the couch when Dani opened the door.
“Hi, Dani,” Jenny said. “I wasn’t expecting to see you tonight.”
“I was just wondering if Bev is home,” Dani said.
“No, I’m sorry, she’s not,” Jenny said. “She went to Nashville. Is there something I can help you with?”
“Well,” Dani said shyly. “I was gonna ask her if she had anything a little sexier than a T-shirt that I could borrow for the night, but that’s okay. Gabriel will be back in less than half an hour anyway.”
“Come with me, then,” Jenny said, getting off the couch. “You’d be surprised I what I can do with that much time.”
Dani followed her down a hallway to a large bedroom. Jenny sat her down at a vanity table and had Dani’s hair and make-up done in ten minutes flat, and then she walked over to a large Wardrobe Cabinet that was standing in the corner of the room.
She opened the door, “Are you looking for angel white or a something a little naughtier?”
“Definitely naughtier,” Dani said.
Jenny pulled some lingerie from the cabinet and brought it to Dani, “Here you go, that should fit you nicely. It’s brand new, and it if doesn’t make it through the night, don’t worry about; my lingerie rarely survives a night with Potter. Now you better hurry or Gabriel is going to beat you back to the house.”
Dani gave her a quick hug, “Thank you so much, Jenny.”
“Think nothing of it. Now go; hurry,” Jenny said, shooing Dani from the house.
Dani hurried as quickly as possible back down the path.
2.
It didn’t take long for Gabriel to find Wesley. He wasn’t far from where they’d left him. “Can I talk to you for a few minutes?”
“I didn’t do anything to your wife, I swear,” Wesley said, dropping out of the tree he’d been in.
“I know you didn’t; that’s why I want to talk to you,” Gabriel said. “It’s been brought to my attention that I’m an asshole, and I want to apologize for threatening your life. You were helping Dani, and I want to say thank you. I’m very sorry for the way I treated you.”
Wesley laughed, “Don’t be sorry, sham. I would have been pissed too if I’d found my wife and another man in the position you found us in.”
“Maybe, but it was a bit juvenile of me to actually start counting down to the moment of your death,” Gabriel said.
“At least you can count, mate” Wesley said. “The man that’s on vacation right now doesn’t seem to be able to. He just calmly came out of the house and tore my damn arms off, and then he really tried to kill me. Nary did a one, a two, or a three ever pass his lips. And all because I gave his wife one little kiss; he’s a psycho, that one.”
Gabriel laughed. He hadn’t been watching this group when that had happened, but he could clearly see Richard having that reaction to someone kissing Beck, “Well, he does love his wife, of that there is little doubt. And your limbs do grow back.”
“That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt when you tear them from my body, mate,” Wesley said with a laugh. “T’was just rude.”
If Wesley had nothing else, he had a good sense of humor about life, “I owe you a favor. It can’t be for the situation that your family is in now, but if you ever need anything else I want you to call on me. If I don’t show up, call on my brother, Michael. He’ll fulfill my debt in my absence.”
“Would that be the brother you attacked today?” Wesley asked.
“You saw that, did you?”
Wesley smiled at him, “Aye, you’d be surprised what I see. I may have been off my rocker for awhile, but my observation skills are fully intact.”
“Why don’t you talk to your brother and get this thing between you worked out?” Gabriel said. “Then you could become part of this family instead of just observing it from the tree tops.”
“You don’t know my brother, mate.” Wesley laughed.
“Yes, I do,” Gabriel said. “He’s loving, funny, highly intelligent and loyal to his family.”
“Aye, he is all those things,” Wesley agreed. “But he’s also vicious, fierce, and merciless; and he can hold a grudge longer than a statue can hold a pose. Not to be offensive, but why don’t you deal with your brother, and let me deal with mine?”
“Fair enough, but don’t forget that I owe you one,” he said.
Wesley nodded his head, “I’ll keep it in mind.”
Gabriel shook Wesley’s hand and then left him alone.
3.
“Dani,” he called out when he got back to the house.
She answered immediately, “I’m still upstairs.”
He ran up the stairs two at a time and threw the bedroom door open. Dani was standing by the bed in a short black silk robe. Her hair had been brushed out and curled at the tips, and she had on light make-up. She was beautiful.
“I didn’t pack that for you,” he said, looking at the amount of leg that was visible beneath the hem of the robe. “Where did you get it?”
“Jenny gave it to me. She has very nice tastes for a vampire,” Dani said. “But if you don’t like it, I can take it off.”
She untied the sash, slid the robe from her shoulders and let it glide to the floor. She twirled in a slow half circle and stopped with her back to him. All of the air in Gabriel’s lungs whooshed from his body, and he slipped slowly to his knees.
She was wearing a tiny little black bra, an even smaller black thong and a red garter belt high on her left thigh. Not even in Heaven had he ever been confronted with such beauty. This sight alone; this one moment in his life, was worth what being with her was going to cost him.
She looked over her shoulder at him, “Is this alright?”
“I…it’s …it…,” he could not seem to form a complete sentence.
“Are you alright?” she asked.
“I…you…,” he stammered.
She smiled at him, “Don’t you want to come over here?”
“I…move…can’t…,”
“Fine, I’ll come to you then,” she said and sank to her hands and knees.
She crawled slowly across the floor to him. When she reached him she kissed her way from the waistband of his jeans, up his chest, and didn’t stop until her lips had reached his neck. Her breasts were pressed against his chest, and Gabriel’s Earthly body was in overdrive.
He pressed his hands to the carpet at his sides to keep himself from crushing her to him.
And then she spoke, “No misunderstanding this time around. Do you want me, Gabriel?” she asked in a smoky voice.
All he could manage in way of an answer was a moan.
“Because I want you,” she whispered in his ear, and then caught his earlobe between her teeth and softly bit it.
Gabriel’s hands shot
through the carpet and into the wood floor beneath it.
Dani giggled, “Calm down.”
“Are you trying to kill me, love?” he finally managed to gasp out.
She gave another throaty laugh, “Goodness no. If I was trying to kill you I’d do this.”
She put her hands on his chest and pressed him back until his shoulders touched the hallway floor. She licked her way back down to the waistband of his jeans, letting her hair trail down his chest. She bit down on the denim and with a single twist of her head, the button fly flew open and his erect shaft sprang out.
He had time to briefly wonder how she’d learned to open a button fly like that before she did the last thing he’d expected. She licked up the length of him and drew him into her mouth. He felt as if he’d been struck by a bolt of lightning! His hands shot out, locked onto two large hand size pieces of the bedroom doorframe and crushed them into dust.
He could feel his blood pounding through his heart. He was an angel nearly as old as the beginning of time, but he felt what he would imagine a fifteen year old boy would feel if put in this same situation with Dani. When her hand came up and lightly clawed down his stomach, he had to push her away.
“What’s wrong?” Dani asked looking up at him.
He had to pull several deep breaths into his lungs before he calmed himself enough to answer her, “I believe you really are trying to kill me.”
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I thought you’d like it.”
“Like it?” he said, rising back up onto his knees. “Are you deranged, woman? I want you much right now that I don’t even trust myself to touch you. You can’t just do that to a man the second night out of the virgin gate.”
“But you’re not a man,” she said with a wicked grin. She undid the clasp on the front of her bra and let her breasts fall free. “You’re an Archangel, remember?”
She cupped her breasts in her hands, dropped her head back and moaned.
She raised her head and gazed at him through half closed eyelids, “I would think an Archangel would be able to take a little more than a simple human man,” she said and licked her lips.
She was right, he wasn’t a man, but she was toying with him as if he were one.
When she skimmed her hand down her stomach and slipped her fingers into the top her panties Gabriel could take no more. She wanted an Archangel? Well, she was about to damn well get one! He rose to his feet and tore his jeans away, and then he scooped Dani from the floor and headed down the stairs with her.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m giving you what you wanted,” he said, and then opened the front door and stepped outside.
She looked at him in confusion. “But the bed’s the other way.”
“I didn’t say anything about a bed,” he said, and then spread his wings and soared into the air.
Dani wrapped her arms around his neck and clung tightly to him. When they were a hundred and fifty feet up, Gabriel stopped and hovered in the air.
“Hold tight,” he said and dropped her legs from his arm just long enough to tear her panties from her body. Then he put both of his hands on her bottom and pulled her up against him. She wrapped her legs around his waist.
“You can’t do this up here,” she said nervously.
“Watch me,” he said, and plunged into her.
Dani threw back her head and cried out. She dug her nails into his shoulders with enough force to rip a human mans flesh. But as she’d pointed out, Gabriel wasn’t human.
He moved Dani so that her velvety wetness slid up and down his shaft. The sweat from her body was allowing her breasts to glide up and down his chest. The sensation was driving him to the edge of madness.
“Look at me, Dani,” he ordered.
She looked up and gazed into his eyes, and he kissed her softly on the lips, “You were right,” he said, never stopping the movement of their bodies, “I’m not a human man; no matter how much you want to pretend I am. I’m this,” he said, and flew them higher into the air, “I will always be this; that can never change.
“I am the Archangel Gabriel, older than the ages, and the Might of God on Earth. I am the Guardian of the last Daughter of God and the Warrior sworn by God to strike down the Morning Star. And I am in love with you, Danielle. Tell me you love me for what I truly am and I will smile as I die for you.”
She looked at him in true awe for the very first time, “I love you, Gabriel.”
He slid his arms up the length of her back, cupped her shoulders in his hands and slammed her body against his over and over again until she cried out.
“She’s mine!” Gabriel bellowed, to both Heaven and Hell, as he exploded inside of her.
4.
Gabriel’s declaration to Heaven and Hell had shot a shock wave of power from his body that had sent Dani into unconsciousness.
He returned her to the house and laid her on the bed, and then went back outside to sit for a moment in the cool night air. He should have known that Michael would be waiting for him.
“Well I’ll say this for you, when you decide to defy God you do not fuck around,” Michael said. “I don’t think you could have made your intention of staying with Dani any clearer.”
Gabriel stared stonily at Michael, “Are you here to lecture me? Because I’ll tell you right now that I’m not going to listen to it.”
“No, no lecture. I was just going to say that if you want any privacy with Dani that you may want to keep your lovemaking inside. All of the angels saw the display you put on in the air tonight; I bet all the demons saw it, as well. You practically threw it in their faces.”
Gabriel just looked at him.
Michael looked back at Gabriel in shock, understanding dawning on his face, “You did it on purpose, didn’t you?”
Gabriel nodded, “I don’t want neither God, nor Lucifer to have any question as to what I’m really going into this battle for; of what I’m fighting for. Lucifer will not take her.”
“If I was Lucifer, I would have pissed my pants in fear when I saw you openly defy God and declare your love for Dani,” Michael said. “That wave of power you threw out knocked all the angels in Heaven off their feet: All of them. I bet it drove all of Lucifer’s demons to the ground, as well.”
And then Michael smiled.
“What?” Gabriel asked.
“That little love scene was awe inspiring, brother. We may be the only two angels to have ever lain with human women, but I bet they’re all thinking about it now,” Michael laughed. “I’ve been with a human woman, but when Dani ripped your pants open with her teeth even I had to look away.”
“You shouldn’t have come back here, Michael,” Gabriel said. “Our Father may punish you for even speaking to me now.”
“I guess we’ll find out,” Michael said, taking a seat next to Gabriel on the porch.
Gabriel looked at his brother and smiled, “Feeling brave?”
“Not particularly, but I won’t abandon you like everyone else has.”
Gabriel was pretty sure he knew who Michael was referring to, “Raphael?”
Michael nodded, “Did you expect any less after what you did tonight?”
Gabriel had never expected much of anything from Raphael. Raphael had never liked Gabriel, and Gabriel couldn’t honestly say that he cared for Raphael, either. Raphael had always been jealous that God had created Gabriel to be his Might and Wrath. He’d been jealous of every praise that their Father had ever heaped on Gabriel’s head.
Nobody had been happier than Raphael when Gabriel had been banned from Heaven. He remembered the smile Raphael had given him when God had announced what Gabriel’s punishment was to be.
”Do I even want to hear what he had to say about Dani?”
“I highly doubt it,” Michael said. “Let’s just say I don’t think he’ll be rooting for you when you finally face Lucifer in battle.”
“My impending death must be making him happy?”
“That’s not fun
ny,” Michael said.
“It wasn’t meant to be,” Gabriel said. “You’ll need to watch him after I’m gone. Raphael has all the qualities that Lucifer had, without having his strengths. Raphael is weak by nature, but that doesn’t mean he won’t try something after I’m gone.
“Promise me that you’ll watch over Dani for me, and keep her safe. Raphael is a vindictive, ill-tempered, petulant child. Nothing would make him happier that to destroy what was once mine; to kill what I loved most.”
“I don’t want to talk about you dying, Gabriel,” Michael said. “We don’t know for sure that you’ll…”
“I know it,” Gabriel said. “I knew it from the first moment I entered Dani’s body. Our Father is a vengeful God. No man or angel walks away from God’s fate for them. And do you really believe that He will change Devine Providence and allow me to survive after all I’ve done to defy Him? At least I’ll die fighting for someone I love; never forget that.
“There will be no Divine Intervention, Michael. Put those foolish thoughts away now and promise me you’ll watch over her, and all the future generations that will carry her blood.”
“I’ll keep them safe, I swear that to you,” Michael said. “But I’ll also hold hope for your survival, even if you won’t.”
“Thank you,” Gabriel said, and placed his hand on brother’s shoulder. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go be with Dani before my time runs out.”
“I’ll see you again before this is over,” Michael said and disappeared.
5.
Gabriel climbed onto the bed beside Dani and watched her sleep. Her eyes moved beneath her lids as she dreamed. He couldn’t believe that his time with her was coming to an end. He wished more than anything that he could turn back the clock and spend more time with her, but that could never be. He placed his hand over Dani’s heart. She gasped and her eyes flew open, “Shh, it’s only me, love.”
He pulled her to him and wrapped his arms around her, “I didn’t mean to wake you.”
He guessed what she’d been dreaming about when she asked, “Gabriel, can you really defeat the Devil?”
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