Page 6 of Unbelievable Faith
Maddox was coming. He’d won the battle and he was coming to claim her like a prize. Or maybe he’d be merciful and simply kill her now that his plans had gone to hell. But no, she shook that thought aside, she wasn’t ready to die. There was more for her out there in the world than this, more than a dusty basement and a life of pain and despair. She was meant for something more, someone morethan…
Him.
The big figure on the stairs finally stepped into the light and Luna hissed as the entire basement went electric all around her. No. Not the basement. Not around her. It took her a moment in her weakened state to put it together but when she did, she had to muffle anothercry.
This time, it was one ofrelief.
It wasn’t Maddox. It wasn’t a threat. It was anangel.
The bolt of lightning was inside of her and it sparked the instant their eyes met. Recognition and heat, a flare of a bond. No, it was not just a flare. An entire wildfire ricocheted through her and settled deep inside her chest. It burned through her, eviscerating her despair and loneliness and replacing it with a hope that she knew couldn’t be herown.
It overpowered everything else, even her need to breathe. It felt like her heart stopped. Her vision dimmed and the world spun madly around her and she thought maybe it had. She thought she might be dying and the angel on the stairs was here to take her away from thisworld.
He was a beautiful lastsight.
Big, tall, dark and handsome didn’t begin to describe the man that was in no way a normal man. He was a shifter, an Alpha. Power radiated off of him like a beacon lighting up his beautifulfeatures.
He had short, dark hair spiked haphazardly and matching dark eyebrows over the most intense set of glittering gold eyes she’d ever seen. He had a firm, strong jawline trimmed in stubble around a full mouth. There were small creases at the sides, as if he was quick to smile, but there was no amusement on his face now. He looked at her as if he was as surprised to see her as she washim.
And then, she watched as his head tilted slightly and that smile she’d known was underneath broke free. Luminous. Perfect. Angelic. She tried to smile back at him. At her beautiful, incrediblemate.
It was him. The man she’d been promised all her life. The other half of her wolf’s soul, it was him and he’d come to save her, but he’d been toolate.
That smile was the last thing she saw before the world wentdark.
